Bill every truck that parks on your lot. No gate. No attendant.
Argus is the Waze and PrePass of truck parking. Our agent books drivers into your lot while they are still on the road. Your cameras read the carrier off the cab door, count the open spaces, and bill the stay to the company that owes it.
A live truck stop lot on the site's own camera. 34 of 35 spaces correct against ground truth.
The camera is becoming the gate. Open lots have been left out.
In September 2026 FreightWaves profiled EAIGLE, whose software turned a distribution center gate handling 1,100 trucks a day into an unmanned 30 second transaction on the security cameras the site already had. That is a private yard with a gate, a guard shack to retire, and an appointment list to check against.
Most truck parking has none of that. It is a truck stop lot, a plaza, a fenced yard or a paved acre with no gate, no appointments, and nobody to collect. Argus Pass brings the same camera check in to those lots. The USDOT stencil on the door is the appointment, and the carrier gets the bill.
We built it from the cab side first. Argus is a navigation app for truck drivers, so the same system that bills the lot also fills it.
Truck parking spaces per driver nationally. The shortage is the demand.
FHWA Jason's Law survey
A day spent looking for parking. A driver who can book ahead stops looking.
ATRI driver diaries
Of drivers report trouble finding safe parking. Every one is a customer for a lot they can see is open.
FHWA Jason's Law survey
First dedicated federal truck parking line item, FY2026. Live availability sensing is a scored criterion.
FY2026 appropriations
The agent fills the lot. The cameras see it. The bill sends itself.
Three products, one set of cameras. Install once and run any of them. Most operators start with Argus Pass because it pays for the cameras.
Fill the lot.
A voice agent inside the Argus driver app. It watches the route and the clock, finds a space ahead, and reserves and pays for it while the truck is still moving.
- Prepaid demand routed into your lot
- The driver never opened a listing
- Your lot listed everywhere drivers look
See the lot.
Computer vision counts open spaces down to the individual stall and publishes it live to your systems, your signs, and the drivers looking for you.
- Space level occupancy, not a lot level guess
- 97% accuracy against ground truth on a live lot
- Runs on the cameras you already own
Earn from the lot.
The same cameras document every truck on entry and exit, and we bill the carrier for the stay. Think PrePass for parking.
- No gate, no kiosk, no attendant
- Billed to the carrier by USDOT number, not to the driver
- We invoice, we chase, we collect
A truck parks. We handle the rest.
Six steps, none of them yours. The driver never rolls down a window and nobody on your payroll touches a payment.
Cameras record entry and exit.
Stays are billed to the motor carrier by USDOT number.
15 minute grace period. Account holders pay a lower rate. Operated by Argus AI for the property owner. Questions and disputes: pass@getargus.ai
Step 1. The sign at your entrance is the contract. Rates, operator, and a way to dispute, posted where the driver already looks.
Step 2. A read in progress on a site's own exit camera. The system tracks the cab door through the pass and combines evidence from every frame.
Step 4. Fifteen minutes, three doors. Open an account, move the truck, or do nothing and get invoiced when it leaves.
Signage sets the terms
Posted at the entrance the driver already passes. Park here and you will be billed, verified by camera.
The camera reads the truck
A side scan pulls the USDOT number and carrier off the cab door. A plate gives you a vehicle. The door gives you the company that owes the money.
Known carrier bills instantly
If the carrier has an Argus account, the clock starts. No message needed.
New carrier gets 15 minutes
We text and email the DOT contact on file, then hold a 15 minute grace period before billing starts. They can open an account at a lower rate, move the truck, or be invoiced.
Departure closes the stay
The camera sees the truck leave and stores the paired entry and exit images.
Invoice, then collections
The invoice goes to the carrier on file. If it is not paid, we escalate and collect. You never chase it.
Existing cameras. No one at the gate. Measured, not modeled.
We tested the two things a lot operator cannot see today without someone at the gate: which trucks are on site, identified by the USDOT number on the cab door, and which spaces are open, space by space. Both ran on the fixed security cameras the sites already had. None were installed, moved or aimed for this work.
The model reading a live feed. Each numbered space is classified on every frame. Results from overlapping cameras are merged into a single lot view, and a space no camera can see is reported as unknown rather than assumed open.
Parking availability
On a live truck stop lot the system classified each truck space as open or occupied and was validated space by space against ground truth. The run lasted five continuous hours from night into day with no change in setup. The one miss sat at the far edge of a single camera's view, the case a second overlapping camera removes.
Read rate by camera placement
- In camera read range, measured100%4 of 4 trucks in the fuel island and canopy close zones
- Whole site, cameras placed for security73%11 of 15 identifiable trucks, no camera moved or aimed for this
- Whole site, one camera per two stalls87 to 93%87 to 93%, modeled from close zone performance on the same 1080p hardware
Gold is measured. Blue is a projection. Every truck that presented a readable door inside a camera's read range was identified.
Truck identification
Seven hours of video from three existing 1080p security cameras, daytime. A number is accepted only when it sits next to a visible USDOT label, is corroborated across frames, and matches the federal registry with no competing reading. When evidence is ambiguous the system reports nothing and keeps an evidence photo. Trailer, MC and equipment numbers were all correctly withheld.
Availability tells you how many spaces are free. Identification tells you who is in them and for how long. Together they give an unmanned yard what a staffed gate gives a manned one: a check in and check out record for every truck, dwell time per carrier, and a count of spaces used against spaces booked.
Run your own numbers.
The trucks are already parking with you. This is what they would pay if the lot billed itself.
Defaults sit in the middle of the rates lots publish today: $15 to $25 a night and $150 to $300 a month for a tractor trailer space, higher in coastal metros. Your numbers replace ours. This is gross billed parking before Argus fees, and it counts only the trucks already parking with you.
- 45 nightly spaces at 65% full
- $17,550
- 15 contract spaces
- $3,375
- Per year
- $251,100
Every lot, every truck, one screen.
Spaces open, occupancy, revenue booked today, and camera health across the whole portfolio.
Carrier, DOT number, space, and payment state.
Every arrival and departure, sourced from the camera.
We run all six layers. Or only the ones you lack.
If you already have an inventory system, carrier accounts, or a payment processor, we connect to them and run the rest. Nothing gets ripped out.
Computer vision
Detection, USDOT and plate reads, entry and exit pairing, image retention.
Always ArgusCarrier identity
USDOT lookup against the federal registry, contact resolution, carrier record.
Always ArgusCommunications
The text, the email, the grace period clock, and the reminders that follow.
Always ArgusInventory and availability
Live space counts and rate rules. We publish into your system or run the whole ledger.
Yours or oursAccounts
Carrier signup and credentials. We federate to your existing accounts if you have them.
Yours or oursPayments and collections
Card on file, invoicing, dunning, escalation. We settle to you or route through your processor.
Yours or oursThe invoice has to survive a dispute.
Camera billing works when the record is clean. We built the evidence chain first and the billing second.
Paired photos, every stay
Entry and exit images, timestamped on a synced clock, held with the camera uptime log. One arrival matched to one departure.
Billed to the USDOT number
Carrier records from the public federal registry. No driver DMV lookups, which is where most plate billing programs get into trouble.
Signage on file
Every entrance photographed and dated. Posted terms are what forms the agreement, so we can produce them years later.
A real dispute path
Fifteen minute grace, a stated dispute window, and a neutral appeal. An invoice, never a citation.
If trucks park on it, it can bill.
Independent truck stops and travel plazas
Turn a first come first served lot into billed parking, and pull drivers in with live availability in the app. The store makes the margin once the truck is parked.
Read moreIndustrial outdoor storage and yards
A low risk revenue line on land you already own. Nobody enters the building. Existing cameras cut the install to software.
Read moreDrop lots, terminals and private parking operators
Occupancy truth instead of booking math. Bill the trucks that are there, and know which spaces you actually have left to sell.
Read moreRest areas and public agencies
Argus Park counts on the cameras already streaming and feeds signs, 511 systems and the app. Live availability is a scored criterion in the federal truck parking programs.
Read moreWe fill it too.
Argus Pass captures revenue from trucks already in the lot. The Argus Agent brings more trucks to capture. A driver tells the app to find parking at the end of their hours, the agent finds a space ahead on the route, and it reserves and pays for it while the truck is still moving. Prepaid demand lands in your lot from a driver who never opened a listing.
Most operators have no truck parking marketing function. We get your lots listed across the parking marketplaces and keep the availability current, so you sell spaces you can prove are open. Argus already maps more than 18,000 truck parking locations for drivers, and the parking stop travels with the load plan through the dispatch software we integrate with.
The founder ran a 25 truck fleet before Argus. The lots that made money were the ones his drivers could count on being open.
What the driver sees. Lots monitored by Argus Park show live space counts, and the agent can commit a driver to them hours before arrival.
Your cameras, or ours.
- 1. Survey. We survey the existing cameras and mark which spaces and gate lanes they cover.
- 2. Fill the gaps. Add coverage only where the survey shows one. A lot with a single entrance needs one camera, and it reads both directions, so arrivals bill and departures free the stall.
- 3. Map once. The spaces are mapped once, then the site is live. Zero servers on your property. Processing runs at the edge and on our platform.
Argus is an Axis Communications Authorized Partner. New installs run on Axis network cameras, which are NDAA compliant and are what most enterprise security teams already standardize on. Any RTSP or ONVIF camera already on the lot becomes a sensor.
Questions operators ask
Can I charge for truck parking without installing a gate?+
Yes. Argus Pass documents every truck on entry and exit with cameras, identifies the carrier from the USDOT number on the cab door, and bills the carrier for the stay. There is no gate, kiosk, or attendant. Posted signage at the entrance forms the agreement.
How much can I charge for truck parking?+
Lots that publish rates today sit around $15 to $25 a night and $150 to $300 a month for a tractor trailer space, with coastal metros higher and the Plains lower. You set the rate. Argus bills it, and the estimator on this page shows the monthly gross for your space count.
How do you stop unauthorized truck parking on a private lot?+
You bill it instead of towing it. Signage states that parking is billed and camera verified. The camera reads the carrier off the door, the carrier is notified and given 15 minutes to move the truck or open an account, and after that the stay is invoiced. Towing a loaded semi is slow, expensive, and often capped below what the tow costs. An invoice to the carrier is not.
Do I need new cameras?+
Usually not. Both field results on this page came from the fixed 1080p security cameras the sites already had. Where a survey shows a coverage gap, Argus specifies and installs cameras as an Axis Communications Authorized Partner. A lot with a single entrance needs one camera, and it reads both directions.
How accurate is camera based truck parking occupancy?+
Measured against ground truth on a live truck stop lot, Argus Park classified 34 of 35 spaces correctly, 97%, over five continuous hours from night into day on two existing cameras. The one miss sat at the far edge of a single camera view, the case a second overlapping camera removes.
Why bill the carrier by USDOT number instead of the license plate?+
The USDOT number is a public federal record that resolves to the company, its authority status, and its contact on file. A plate resolves to a vehicle and needs a DMV lookup of an individual, which is where plate billing programs run into privacy law. Billing the carrier is a business to business invoice.
How do drivers find my lot?+
Argus builds a navigation app for truck drivers. The Argus Agent watches the route, finds a space ahead, and reserves and pays for it while the truck is still moving, so prepaid demand lands in your lot. We also list your lot across the truck parking marketplaces and keep the availability current.
What does it cost and how long does it take to go live?+
A fixed scope site assessment comes first: we survey your existing cameras, mark what they cover, and add coverage only where the survey shows a gap. Then the spaces are mapped once and the site is live. Most operators start with Argus Pass because the billing pays for the cameras.
Does this work for rest areas and public truck parking?+
Argus Park does. It counts occupancy on the cameras a DOT already streams and publishes live availability to signs, 511 systems, and the Argus app. Tolling is for private lots.
Start with one lot.
Tell us where your lots are and what you already run. We reply within one business day with a site read and what the first ninety days would look like.
Prefer a call? Robert Putt, founder. 402 915 2886 or robert@getargus.ai.