Is the Flying J in Effingham ever not busy?

that TS gave the biggest discount of all Pilot/Flying J in the country when I was a Tran Scam driver

 

It's at the crossroads of I-57 & I-70....both high traffic roads. But yeah...a busy, busy place. The T/A across the street stays busy 24/7 too. But it cracks me up...all these drivers that complain about Flying J / Pilot, yet they are ALWAYS busy.

 

Yup.

Almost always full unless its your lucky day.

 

Try back on Christmas day, or maybe Thanksgivings.
It's always been a clustered duck in there.

 

Well, as a company ape my company tells me where I must fuel on each run and it will be one of the Big Five t/s's, so to speak. In fact the fuel card won't work at any of the smaller chains or independent t/s's. Likely the same for a lot of the other drivers.

 

Every large and mid size trucking company who uses "fuel optimizer" routes trucks into the Effingham J for fuel 60% of the times through there. Most of the truckers fueling there aren't there by personal choice.

 

It's not a bad truck stop as far as truck stops go, but if you need to fuel, the cluster f*** lines at the pumps one often has to sit through makes it not worth the lost time and general hassle getting into and out of the truck stop. Plus you can't pull up after fueling without blocking somebody in or risking getting a hood taken off.

 

Plus you can't pull up after fueling without blocking somebody in or risking getting a hood taken off. Plus you can't pull up after fueling without blocking somebody in or risking getting a hood taken off.
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OMG...you mean you REALLY...ACTUALLY pull forward after fueling???? That is becoming quite rare these days. Thank you for pulling forward.