Pilot/Flying J

jkwilson wrote:

My thought is that there would be enormous value in having a brand name associated with easy fueling, clean bathrooms, food and snack selection and rest parking for RVs. If you knew every store of a certain brand would be hassle free, you’d stop there as often as possible. Even putting a little “RV Friendly” logo on their signs for stores that were designed for RVs would create loyalty.

Before the merger with Pilot, Flying J was significantly investing in just this path and marketing. I haven't kept up in recent years to see how they are faring since the merger. We sold our motorhome many years ago and just bought the travel trailer last year. There still aren't enough Flying J's along my usual routes of travel so I can't really say if they are still really pursuing it. I will say that they are still the only brand I've seen that has made a real attempt at catering to us.

They do have a page on the Pilot/Flying J web site dedicated to RV services, https://pilotflyingj.com/rv-services/. On this page, they have a couple of references. First a travel guide which is a PDF of a brochure that looks like it might be or have been available in print form. This travel guide lists their locations, by state and interstate exit number, with RV parking, RV fuel lanes, dump stations, and propane. The brochure appears to be dated 2014 though. They also have an excel spread sheet with RV locations and services. If my excel filtering is correct, it looks like between Pilot and Flying J, as of the time of publishing the spread sheet, they had:

• 153 locations with dedicated RV Parking
• 187 locations with dedicated RV lanes
• 190 locations with dump stations
• 210 locations with propane

For the record, I'm not in any way affiliated with Pilot or Flying J, but I do appreciate businesses that offer services that make our life easier.