Truck Pot $0-10000

Type: tree | Size: medium | Origin: Planet Truck
COMPONENTS
Power Plug
Air Pump / Air Filter
WiFi Module
Package Delivery Box
Trash Can
Recycle Can
Oil Barrel
Currency Exchange
Truck AC
Truck Heater
Truck Vacuum
Battery
Uni-Adapter
PROBLEM

Parking lots are too empty.

SOLUTION

The Truck Pot is a life-giving utility station engineered for the overnight lot operator, the long-haul driver, the side-of-the-road philosopher, and anyone else who has spent a night in a parking lot staring at a light pole that offers nothing. The Truck Pot mounts to any standard light pole using the Trunks system and consolidates everything a truck driver needs for an extended stay into a single pole-mounted unit: power, internet, fresh air, waste disposal, package receiving, oil management, currency exchange, climate control, and a vacuum that is not for the highway. The base configuration is free to use with a self-sustaining charge-sharing model — the Pro version includes a battery module that siphons power from running engines, idling generators, or other ambient sources in the lot and redistributes it as shared grid credit, meaning you can stay charged for free for as long as the system has charge to give, which is longer than you would expect and shorter than you would hope depending on how many other trucks are in the lot. Price ranges from zero dollars to ten thousand dollars depending on who is buying gas. The Truck Pot is warranted for standard roadside utility use. It is not warranted for, and is explicitly prohibited from being used as, a concealment device for anything on the side of any highway, and this warning is in the documentation because it had to be.

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The Power Plug is a weatherproof exterior electrical outlet assembly mounted on the Truck Pot body providing two NEMA 5-15 standard 15-amp outlets and one NEMA TT-30 30-amp RV-rated outlet behind a spring-loaded cover rated for outdoor use, rain, and the full ambient temperature range of a parking lot in any season. The 30-amp outlet is the one truck drivers actually want. The 15-amp outlets are for everyone else who pulls in with a phone charger and an optimistic attitude. All outlets are GFCI protected at the pole-side breaker. In the Truck Pot Pro configuration, outlet access is metered against the battery credit balance of the user session and draws first from banked charge before pulling from grid, meaning the driver who contributed engine power to the lot earlier in the day is the driver who runs their outlets the longest at night. This is the intended design.

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The Air Pump / Air Filter is the signature dual-function module of the Truck Pot and the component that makes people stop and ask what that thing is. On the pump side it is a 150 PSI compressor with a digital pressure gauge and a standard Schrader valve hose long enough to reach all four tires on a commercial truck without moving the hose between wheels, with a preset mode that fills to a target PSI and stops automatically so the driver does not have to crouch in the dark holding a gauge. On the filter side it is a three-stage HEPA-rated air purification unit drawing from ambient lot air — diesel particulates, brake dust, asphalt off-gassing, whatever a parking lot is made of at 2am — and exhausting cleaned air at breathing height through a louvered outlet on the front face of the unit. Both functions operate simultaneously off the same intake manifold. The pump pressurizes the air path for tire filling. The filter runs the same air through the media stack and exhausts it into the ambient environment. One machine. One plug. Two things fixed. The unit also smells faintly of pine because the carbon stage is pine-derived activated charcoal and this was not a decision made by the engineering team.

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The WiFi Module is a weatherproof 802.11ax WiFi 6 access point sealed in a UV-stable radome housing rated to IP66, providing broadband wireless access to the surrounding lot area at a radius sufficient to reach a truck cab parked at the pole without the driver leaving the vehicle. The module connects to backhaul internet via whatever connectivity the Trunks system provides at the installation site and broadcasts an open SSID with a configurable session bandwidth cap managed by the lot operator. Speed is not the point. Enough bandwidth to run a dispatch app, stream something low-resolution, and send a text is the point. The module is mounted above all other Truck Pot components on the pole body for unobstructed signal propagation and is the component most likely to have something thrown at it, which is why the radome is polycarbonate.

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The Package Delivery Box is a heavy-gauge powder-coated steel lockbox mounted at accessible height on the Truck Pot body, sized to accept packages up to 18 by 14 by 12 inches through a hinged top-loading drop slot that allows delivery without a key or code from the delivery side and requires a unique per-session PIN from the recipient side. The PIN is generated when the driver registers their truck at the Truck Pot via the pole-mounted NFC tap point and delivered to whatever contact method they specify. The box is through-bolted to the pole body with tamper-resistant hardware and the lock cylinder is a Grade 1 commercial deadbolt with a hardened steel shackle. A carrier strip along the inside of the door holds a laminated address card insert the driver can slide in for their overnight stay so deliveries find the right box in a lot with multiple Truck Pots. The box is not heated or cooled and is not rated for perishable goods, which is a decision the documentation makes clearly because people have tried.

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The Truck Pot Trash Can is a 32-gallon powder-coated steel receptacle mounted to the base collar of the Truck Pot pole body with a spring-loaded hinged door on the front face sized for standard fast food bags, which is the primary input stream at any truck stop adjacent to a highway. The lid profile is sloped to prevent the can from becoming a surface for things that are not trash. A liner bag retention ring inside the upper rim keeps the bag in place when the can is serviced without requiring the bag to be taped, tied, or otherwise committed to the can in a way that makes removal a physical challenge at 5am. The Trash Can and the Recycle Can are the same component in different colors because they are the same problem.

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The Truck Pot Recycle Can is a 32-gallon powder-coated steel receptacle in blue mounted to the base collar of the Truck Pot pole body opposite the Trash Can, accepting bottles, cans, and cardboard through a hinged door with a graphic on it indicating what goes in there. Whether the contents are actually recycled downstream depends entirely on the lot operator and their municipal contract, and the Truck Pot documentation acknowledges this with the phrase: at least it is sorted. The Recycle Can is the same component as the Trash Can in a different color. This is noted here because it was noted in engineering review and the engineer who noted it was correct.

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The Oil Barrel is a 55-gallon double-walled HDPE collection drum mounted on a floor-level saddle bracket at the base of the Truck Pot pole, accepting used motor oil, transmission fluid, and other non-hazardous automotive fluids through a standard 2-inch bung fitting on the top face with a funnel insert rated for fluids up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The outer wall provides secondary containment for the full drum volume in the event of inner wall breach, which is a thing that can happen and is unpleasant when it does. The barrel ships with a fill level indicator strip visible from standing height and a tamper-evident cap that signals when the drum has been accessed between scheduled service pickups. Coordinating the pickup is the lot operator's responsibility and the barrel is very clearly labeled as a thing that needs to be coordinated before it is full, which is the kind of label that gets ignored until it matters.

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The Currency Exchange is a tamper-resistant automated currency conversion kiosk module integrated into the upper body of the Truck Pot, supporting bill-to-bill exchange for the top 12 global currency pairs by transaction volume at the installation site, plus crypto-to-cash conversion for the four most liquid digital assets at time of transaction. The unit accepts bills through a motorized validator, dispenses exchange currency from internal cassettes, and prints a receipt that is also a proof of exchange for customs purposes if the driver needs it to be. Exchange rates are pulled from a live feed via the WiFi Module and displayed on a 7-inch daylight-readable screen before the transaction commits. The kiosk does not give change. It gives currency. There is a difference and the screen explains it before anyone inserts anything.

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The Truck AC is a pole-mounted compact split-system air conditioning unit consisting of an outdoor condenser module clamped to the Truck Pot upper body and a flexible insulated supply hose with a magnetic window-mount adapter that seals to the driver-side window of a standard truck cab without tools, creating a conditioned air feed into the sleeping space without requiring the engine to run. The system is rated at 8,000 BTU per hour, sufficient to cool a standard truck cab sleeping area to a comfortable temperature in ambient conditions up to 42 degrees Celsius. Power draw is 750 watts from the Truck Pot power hub, which in the Pro configuration pulls first from battery credit before grid. The window adapter comes in three widths covering the glass measurement range of 95 percent of North American truck models sold after 1998 and uses a foam compression seal that leaves no marks on the glass. The hose is 3 meters long. Drivers who have slept in a hot cab in August know why this component exists. Everyone else can guess.

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The Truck Heater is the winter-season counterpart to the Truck AC module, a pole-mounted ceramic radiant heating unit with the same flexible hose and magnetic window-mount adapter interface, delivering 1,500 watts of convective heat into the cab sleeping space without engine operation. The unit features a low-noise fan rated at 38 decibels at 1 meter because the driver needs to sleep and this is not a industrial workspace. A thermostat probe on the hose end reads cab temperature and cycles the heater to maintain a set point, rather than running at full output until someone wakes up sweating. The window adapter and hose are the same component as the Truck AC version and are shared between the two units, meaning a driver with both modules only needs one window kit. The heater is rated for ambient temperatures down to minus 30 degrees Celsius at the outdoor unit, which covers everywhere a truck is going to be parked in winter except the places where it probably shouldn't be.

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The Truck Vacuum is a coin-op or credit-tap activated high-suction wet-dry vacuum station mounted at the base of the Truck Pot pole with a 6-meter hose on a retractable reel rated for the interior geometry of standard truck cabs, sleeper berths, and the footwell situation that develops over a long haul. The motor produces 180 CFM airflow through a dual-stage filtration system — a cyclone separator for bulk debris and a fine filter for the particulate layer underneath. The canister is a 20-liter stainless steel drum that is emptied by lot maintenance on a service schedule visible on the pole-mounted status display. The vacuum operates for 5 minutes per credit unit. Additional time can be purchased in 2-minute increments. The hose is long enough to reach the passenger side without moving the truck. The nozzle kit includes a crevice tool, a brush, and a wide-mouth floor attachment. In the Truck Pot Pro configuration, vacuum credits can be earned by contributing engine power to the lot battery system, so a driver who charges the lot can vacuum for free, which is a sentence that has never been true anywhere before this product existed. Not for use on the highway. Not for hiding things.

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