Ovenight in a Truck Stop
I have posted on this subject before. I do long distance driving in the summer months. This year finding a place to park has been pure hell. In some areas the Truck Stops fill up before noon. Makes it...
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No I didn't read them all.
But. It appears things have changed a lot since I drove the trailertrucks. The truck stops we used did not allow RVs or anything else to park in the trailertruck lot. The restaurants had a "drivers" only section that you could not sit in unless you crawled out of a big truck. After all. the drivers paid their bills, and so they catered to the drivers.
but then truck stops aren't what they use to be, with drivers motels upstairs, driver's lounges down stairs, and drivers showers too. We took all our showers at the nicer truckstops. Now they don't advertise the showers, and most of the restaurants are SubWays or pizza places.
But at the Petro. you got your own shower room. You dined in the Iron Skillet restaurant, (home cooking) and you got your loads from the brokers in the broker house. There was a huge lounge with a huge TV, and a game room if you wanted. A huge truckers store with everything from CB Radios, and radar detectors to add on lights. Truck stops of America we not quite so good, but they still catered to the drivers. Still reserved the parking for drivers, and restaurants space for drivers. And both had truck only fuel lanes. That is where they made their money.
Not everything changes for good
But. It appears things have changed a lot since I drove the trailertrucks. The truck stops we used did not allow RVs or anything else to park in the trailertruck lot. The restaurants had a "drivers" only section that you could not sit in unless you crawled out of a big truck. After all. the drivers paid their bills, and so they catered to the drivers.
but then truck stops aren't what they use to be, with drivers motels upstairs, driver's lounges down stairs, and drivers showers too. We took all our showers at the nicer truckstops. Now they don't advertise the showers, and most of the restaurants are SubWays or pizza places.
But at the Petro. you got your own shower room. You dined in the Iron Skillet restaurant, (home cooking) and you got your loads from the brokers in the broker house. There was a huge lounge with a huge TV, and a game room if you wanted. A huge truckers store with everything from CB Radios, and radar detectors to add on lights. Truck stops of America we not quite so good, but they still catered to the drivers. Still reserved the parking for drivers, and restaurants space for drivers. And both had truck only fuel lanes. That is where they made their money.
Not everything changes for good
