Can I be denied the right to work as a service business on public property?
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Can I be denied the right to work as a service business on public property?
I have a commercial 18 wheelers repair service in Kentucky. I am being told by one of the local truck stops that we are not allowed on the property as they now have there own service truck. I have been just asking my customers to go across the street to another truck stop and they do. New Link Destination
day a customer called us to go to this truck stop and jump start their truck. The driver could not take it across the street as it would not start. They told the driver that they would call their own maintenance department. Can they legally keep us off their property? Is this also entrapment to the customer who cannot choose the service of their choice?
Asked on May 23, 2017 under Business Law, Kentucky
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
It is not public property if it belongs to a private person or business, so if the truck stop is (as I assume) privately owned and they own or lease the land, then they have the right to exclude you from it. Any private citizen or business may exclude any other person, business, etc. from their owned or rented land for essentially any reason they want--and keeping out a competitor is certainly a legally valid reason.
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