The three largest national truck stop chains have all put mandatory mask policies in place. This news comes as the United States has just passed 150,000 deaths from COVID-19.
Pilot Flying J and TravelCenters of America have joined Love’s Travel Stops in their mandatory mask requirement. Love’s announced their policy on July 21st. Pilot announced their requirement and were followed shortly by TA.
All truck stops are being encouraged to follow suit. The National Association of Truck Stop Owners (NATSO) is recommending that all of its member organizations require patrons to wear a face mask while indoors.
Mask regulations can change from state to state, county to county, and even municipality to municipality. The policy will be in effect in all Pilot, Love’s, and TA stops throughout the United States regardless of location.
“In many parts of the country, we are seeing a growth in the number of cases, so we expect that more states, cities and counties will mandate masks,” said NATSO President and CEO Lisa Mullings in a NATSO press release. “While we understand that there is disagreement about whether to mask, we are urging members to follow the advice of medical experts, including the CDC. We have a patriotic duty to guard the health of our employees and customers and believe this is an easy way to get the U.S. economy moving during this unprecedented global pandemic.”
Source: truckinginfo, fleetowner, overdrive, freightwaves, truckinginfo, natso, wsj, natso
Clicking the story out of the email opened Facebook to a meme page. That’s an unsubscribe for me.
Nobody cares
Bye
Adios Pilot/Flying J !!!
Your truck stops suck anyway.
Adios Loves !!!
I’m sick to death of being forced to use bio-diesel. Most of the time, your diesel is ORANGE, which to a fuel transport driver means you clowns are using 20% or more bio-sludge.
Now, both chains make wearing a mask MANDATORY???
No way. I’ll drive on down the road and use someone else.
THANK YOU !!! I dont want you in the same store as myself.
I’m with you on that
Ditto on that, brother! If a person can’t think about the common good and do one little thing to help us all carry the load, adios indeed!
I will be in any store without a mask. I’ll laugh at you while you cower, as I walk by.
Roger that
It’s for our safety Brian white. god forbid if you catch it don’t run to hospital just park on side of road out of the public eye site and deal with it deuces
Your safety is not his or anyone else’s responsibility, it’s yours!!!! Stop telling people what to do.
EXACTLY. Because if masks work? 😂😂😂 And they DON’T as the package itself even says so, then they wouldn’t be required. And if they work? 😂😂😂 the one’s wearing them because the TV TOLD them to wouldn’t CARE because THEIR mask works which is why they have one on.
Amen brother!
You’re absolutely right. I’m glad and appreciate that the truck stops have implemented this policy. All the folks that don’t want to wear a mask should patronize the same truckstop and go down with the ship…together.
Please do and enjoy that level of cleanliness the smaller chains are infamous for. Maybe grab some of that good curry with the salmonella while your at it. Take a good look professionals. This is the reason the industry hasn’t seen a raise in 40 years.
That’s exactly right they can’t get into Walmart orAny Reputable grocery store with out one. So many of the drivers we hear In these truck stops complaining should be worried about the germs they are carrying around from not taking showers. And it would be nice if they wore a mask to cover their breath
Sorry, Walmart rescended, if you have a medical issue that prevents you from wearing a mask, then you don’t have to wear one, they won’t even approach you. Just curious, when flu season starts, are masks going to be pushed as well? Which numbers are showing more people have died from the flu than this virus, but people aren’t so upset about that, wonder why that is? 2020? BTW, never stopped working through this joke, been through just about every mid west and southern state, haven’t been sick, haven’t known anyone dick and people I’ve met, same thing. I find that kind of weird. Just saying. Don’t believe everything the media puts out.
Be a part of the solution! Your selfish, irresponsible attitude is part of the reason this virus is exploding right now!
TV told you that did it 😂 I’m bettin it did. BaaHaaHaaa!
Amen
I had my filter clogged a couple of times because of that stupid bio diesel.
Just claim the medical exemption if anyone asks you about a mask
What exemption allows you to bypass cdc guidelines?
They’re guidelines, not law!
“I have a medical condition that prohibits me from wearing a mask.” The 4th amendment gives you the right to not have to explain or provide the reason it’s called the HIPPA act they are not aloud to question it your health is private.
Too bad! I’m not following the Judas goat to the slaughter! The numbers to the deaths and cases do not have names to go with them. The Sheep comply with the masks then they comply with the forced vaccinations! Civil War is what’s mandatory. It’s coming folks we have no choice
I second that.
Yep. And those who don’t think DJT isn’t part of it for reelection @ our expense since it’s HIS Nat. Emergency, is a fool.
LOL. You’re not very bright.
It may be mandatory but most of the Loves truckstops aren’t making anyone wear one. If you have one great if you don’t that’s fine too. Their not going to turn away the dollar of a potential customer in their store. Not sure about what the other chains are doing as I only fuel at a Loves. I haven’t wore a mask since all this started and I’m not starting now.
They always stated since I started driving in 1976 ” STUPID TRUCK DRIVERS ” . Really fits with the anti mask crowd.
Who died and made you idiots the mask Police. The is no proof that masks prevent anything. I am not wearing a mask and dare you to ask me to. I’m not the one. You are Sheep !!!
Salas, would you please wear a mask. I asked you, so what you going to do about it now.
I’m a sheep 🐑 😌 please 🙏 pretty please.will you we’re one.
Who should I listen to? A bunch of moron truck drivers that think the Russian is good for our country? Or doctors and scientists? It’s a pretty simple answer!
Yes. as for me and my family, I trust science.
Me too! I’ve seen the devastation that this virus causes to some. Me being able to put on a mask to maybe not pass anything on to anybody else and continuing to do my job out here on the road; is well worth the inconvenience!
Don’t always trust man, man will let us down. Put your trust and faith in God, Jesus Christ. And no I’m talking about religion, it’s about having a personal relationship. Trust in him and he will take care of you. Psalms 118 verse 8 says this: It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Sorry ment to say I’m not talking about religion.
Bet you also think there are more than 2 genders as well
The same people who’ve spent years telling me(when I didn’t ask) that Obama was going to take the guns away, Pizzagate was a real thing, and that a sleazy family of real estate grifters were going to end corruption in Washington…are now saying that the doctors and scientists that have spent decades on infectious diseases don’t know what they’re talking about/are out to get us. Not too difficult of a decision as to who I’ll be getting advice from.
Well said Howard Beal, I agree totally with your thoughts.
Think about this…Most people who follow the science and truth/facts decide to wear a mask. Most people who follow Trump won’t wear a mask. We go at each other calling names, claiming the “others” are all followers, morons and kool-aid drinkers. Don’t you people see they are pitting us against each other? Why would one of you declare another civil war is coming? We should kill each other to follow a grifter politician? You who call for this has never seen real war! Wake up Americans! Care for each other! Everyone should register Independent so the insiders cannot cause such chaos!
I’m With you. Sad that so many selfish people just can’t do whats right while thinking about others.
It’s OBVIOUS YOU take your soyboy comrade orders from the TV. THIS road dawg was IN CHINA for 2 wks in end of Nov early Dec 2019. We as in NONE of us got sick. Still don’t know anyone who has it or had it. Dismissed!
I don’t understand why people are so upset about the masks. If it actually helps stops the spread of COVID then why not? Wearing it for no longer than your inside these facilities isn’t going to kill anyone, it may actually have the opposite effect. I think they’re uncomfortable as hell and annoying to wear but that’s a very small sacrifice I’m willing to make if that’s what it takes.
Amen bro. Preach
The reasoning behind masks as a way to limit the spread of the virus, doesn’t require the mind of a scientist. It compares more closely with the wearing of pants, as a way to limit the spread of urine, than fences and mosquitos.
If you wear pants, and someone near you starts to pee, your pants may mitigate the effect on you – but your leg is probably still going to get wet. If they wear pants, then you’re going to have to get pretty intimate, to get wet.
Of course, wearing your mask on your chin is a little like wearing your pants around your knees – not a lot of help with your dingle hanging out.
The person wearing the mask/pants isn’t doing it for their own protection. They’re doing it for everyone else’s. Masks can’t stop viral particles, but they can stop blobs of mucus that carry viral particles, when you sneeze or cough. It’s depressing, that the best we can do is to try to protect the other guy – but it’s still the right thing to do.
It’s just selfishness. These idiots who aren’t wearing masks and keeping distancing won’t understand until they or their loved ones get sick. Then they’ll blame whatever politician their AM radio host tells them to. Theyre tools.
Remember to take them off once in awhile and catch some fresh air. Wearing a mask too much can lead to things like legionnaires disease, which can be worse than Covid-19.
Fact check me? Just search legionnaires disease. It’s called that because people in armies in the medieval times would die of bacterial infections caused by wearing closed helms all the time, and bacteria get trapped on the inside and grow.
So all in moderation I guess.
Holy mackerel this is so false.
Legionnaire’s is named because of its discovery at an american legion event. It is caused by inhaling contaminated water droplets. Please do google it. A mask won’t cause it.
You’re supposed to eash them. Like pants, which will also give you diseases, if you constantly wear the same dirty pair all the time.
Its a truck driver.. they tend to not like to bathe..
Hey buddy, You’d probably miss a day of bathing too of you drove all day and were too exhausted to wait in a line to shower. Truckers have hygiene items in their trucks to use in case they unable to get to a truckstop. Sometimes a trucker is stuck in rural areas where there might not be showers available. Walk a mile in someone elses shoes before you judge others while hiding behind your computer.
Gail just do like the other f s do take a,shower at fuel island
They like showers as much as you do, but dont always have time trying to deliver the things you spoiled people think you need!..and I do not wear a mask!
Wash them by hand when your in the showers.
The first recognized cases of Legionnaires’ disease occurred in 1976 in Philadelphia; among more than 2,000 attendees of an American Legion convention held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, 182 attendees contracted the disease and 29 of them died
Thanks for that breath of air.
People making noises about sheep while being the actual sheep in question. The whole thing is political, they say, but they don’t realize it’s political from their side.
If masks don’t work and you wear one, you don’t lose anything.
If they do work and you don’t wear one, you elevate your risk of getting sick and getting others sick.
It’s simple logic.
“But they don’t work 100%!!!11”
Neither do umbrellas but I’d rather have one if it’s raining. And despite what the Republicans have desperately been trying to tell you, it’s goddamn raining, people.
And the latest science says they do work. 100%? No, but any reduction in risk translates into benefits for the country as a whole.
Grow up. It’s not an assault on your liberties.
Those same Pilots and damn near every other place you can go in the country require shirt, pants, and shoes to enter. I never saw you polishing your ARs over that, or storming the steps of same state capitol.
And last thing – the better this pandemic is managed, the sooner we can get back to some economic normalcy, which means more freight again SO PUT ON THE DAMN MASKS IF YOU WANT TO WORK.
Everyone reading this – I hope you and your families and your friends make it through this as best you can. You can do a tiny, easy thing to increase the odds of that for you and everyone else.
…why wouldn’t you?
Hey I’m with you on this one I’ve been saying the same thing. Sure it iratating to do but if it helps us reduce cases and deaths I’m all for it.
Very well said.
Keep sucking the kool ade listen to dumb donny and his cronies who know better than team of medical specialists
Great thought process! I’d buy you a cup of coffee! Of course, sipping through a straw! Great comment!!! I bet you are an Independent…your thinking sure is!
My comment is aimed at Pete’s sheep comment.
Surgeons wear masks for hours at a time, and they’re fine. Cloth and surgical masks have less impact on your oxygen intake than smoking – you’re not a smoker, are you?
And you’re supposed to wash your mask. If you have more than one (like underwear), change masks whenever you stop somewhere with running water (bathroom, restaurants), and wash your mask along with your hands. Put the wet mask on a hand towel on your dash, and let it dry in the sun. You’ll be fine. The mask doesn’t hold in any more toxic substances coming from you mouth, than your pant hold in on the other end.
Try a toothbrush😌😈
If you think wearing a mask is such an imposition then try eating hospital food.
Doctors wear masks all day, dentists wear masks all day, plus a lot of other people wear masks all day. Why don’t they drop dead like you people think we’re going to?
So wear your mask, what’s wrong you don’t think it works? LOL. I’m not wearing one. My body, my choice.
Actually not true, there is no Dr or Dentist that wears a mask all day …but do keep showing your brilliance
Surgeons often wear them for hours at a time…
But look; if you need to take a face-covering break, just step 6 feet away from everyone – maybe go outside – pull down your mask, and take a few deep breaths. The mask isn’t necessary, if nobody is within sneezing or coughing range. It does not sufficiently impair a normal person’s breathing, to be a hazard – but it is unquestionably a comfort issue. So if you are uncomfortable, get away from people, and take it off.
Smoking impairs breathing far worse than cloth or surgical masks. If you’re a smoker, your breathing problem is one of your own making, and you can stop whining about having to wear a mask. Go take a smoke break… :-/
Whoever said you have to wear a mask all day, I take off mine when I am in my truck/driving. I spray my mask with rubbing alcohol to kill the germs, virus, etc. I don’t know why people make a big deal about this you all sound like babies throwing a tantrum.
Goes,to show,not only dumb donny but dumber truck drivers, I think a little protection goes a,long way, maybe all the dumb dumbs die,more,air and,resources,for smart ones
Shut up stupid!
I’ve never heard so much bull#@$+ in my 46 years of trucking. How long are you actually IN a truckstop anyway? My goal was get in, get out, drive, make money. For the sake of argument let’s say you spend 1/2 hr twice a day actually in the truckstop. Not showering, or fueling, or eating (where you obviously won’t be masked). Let’s further suppose your mask reduced by 20% the risk factor. That means one in five people may be saved from getting seriously ill or dying. You crybabies can’t give up 1hr/day to possibly help all of us? Shame on you.
I guarantee you that if this virus caused blood to ooze from the pores of your skin, there would be one helluva lot more people masking up and one helluva lot less crying and whining about their “rights” and conspiracies.
People would rather latch on to idiot conspiracies pushed by idiots than put even the tiniest bit of thought into it.
It’s downright shameful how easily fear is stoke. SHARIA LAW! BOXCARS! FEMA CAMPS!
Christ you little children, grow the hell up.
Pete, if you knew what the word “He’ll” really means, you wouldn’t use it so loosely! And the same with “ CHRIST” in case u don’t know, He is the one who Died on the Cross for you and me, so we wouldn’t go to Hell, that’s why he gives us our own free will to choose that gift or reject it, I suggest u take that free gift and ask Christ to come into your heart to forgive you of your sins. Besides, that’s the Only way one can go to Heaven, Jesus is coming very soon, don’t be left behind! 🦅🙏
Please be holier than thou in a more appropriate forum.
You really believe that
Give everyone a break and please play with your fantasies in your own room.
FFS if you replaced the word Jesus with Hercules and God with Zeus you would understand why so many educated folks just can’t even when it comes to folks like you.
Not to mention the book you Think you are quoting from is just a heavily edited piece of Fan Fiction whose stories and metaphors change depending on who is editing. Seriously, do you even have any idea how many “gnostic” (meaning Knowledge) books there are, why each, individually, was removed and why the person in charge of Each Edited Removal made that decision?
No, you don’t, because you take the word of one pastor/priest/preacher (or worse yourself with ZERO education on the subject) and what They told you it means.
Christ is NOT a swear word, He is Lord!
yeah ,but it does,nt make blood ooze from you’re pore’s!!!!!
WELL SAID COLLINS, Amen!🦅🙏
Agree with you REAL trucker!!!
I will agree with colin genge you hit the nail on head driver the only time I am in the truckstops longer than 30 minutes is in the shower there is no reason to hang around in the truckstops .
I wonder what the pro mask people do with there masks.? Discard them properly? I see a lot on the ground. Put them in a side box or place where they won’t cross contaminate anything else? I see them blowing in the wind on car rear view mirrors and hanging off ears. What’s the point of a mask if your not using them properly? I do when necessary. I follow the rules. Try to be polite and hear both sides. Being rude is not or never should be part of being a trucker. Try going back to when we were knights of the highways and helping one another. Respect and caring goes a long way. God Bless you all.
Truckers are the most fattest, lazy, unhealthy ppl in this world. Reading thru the comments it looks like alot of truckers won’t wear the mask, I’ll give it about 4weeks till we start seeing rates go thru the roof due to shortages of drivers. Theirs gonna be a high demand for XXXXL sized coffins soon.
Who are you the fat mask police
It depends on which doctor or scientist you want to cherry pick. There are some on both sides.
As far as saying truckers are morons you don’t know what you’re talking about. I know some that are PH’DS. That got tired of the rat race.
A lot more aren’t. Let’s not pretend that truckers and scientist are comparably intelligent or educated, as groups…
Excuse me but truck drivers are not stupid. I drove for 7 years and have vet tech degree and 2 certifications
Shaunna, you surely recognize that, for a trucker, you are exceptionally educated. I will repeat it, for those who failed to take notice: AS GROUPS, truck drivers and scientists are not comparably educated or intelligent. There are always rare exceptions, but let’s not pretend that they are the norm.
Piled higher and deeper
It hould be up to the individual open up and lets us live the way we want or should be i thought this was a free country not. Some some pencil pushing sit behind a desk jerk telling me what i can or cannot do
Sometimes individual choice must give way to the public good. If it didn’t, we probably would never have gotten interstate highways.
But corporations would still have the right to insist that people entering their buildings wear a face covering, either way. It’s their building – follow their rules or get out. You get to make the rules at your house, similarly.
Funny those calling themselves virtuous are actually cowards.
Him against the overwhelming majority of other health professionals on the planet…
Cloth and surgical masks have their limitations, bur you have only to look at the places which use them, to see that they do mitigate the spread of the disease.
And it’s not about blocking your breathing passages, it’s about mitigating the volume of fluids that escape from them into the air and onto surfaces around you. You might as well argue against washing your hands after wiping your bum, on the basis that doing so kills good bacteria with the bad, and doesn’t clean 100% of it off, anyway… How much poop on your hands is too much?
If you kill all the poor people, the poorest rich people become the new poor people. So who sweeps the floors, now?
Rich people prefer slaves to corpses. If you’re going to concoct a conspiracy theory, make an effort to be credible.
Conspiracy doesn’t equal someone to lazy to look it up.
a bunch of pussy’s, that all that’s left in this country!!! if you wear a mask then you are protected from me not wearing one!!! unless of course you’re mask is’nt worth a crap!! thank’s for looking out for me but in the 60 year’s l’ve been alive i have’nt needed you’re help and i doubt i will need it for the next 60!!!!! the so=called expert’s that tell you to comply ,don’t do it it themselve’s. quit being a sheep, be a man ,why let people lead you around!!
Ben the manly man my man grow up
Well said Ben!!!
We’ll be sure to let the EMTs know, when you have that massive coronary heart attack that’s just over your horizon, that you don’t need or want anyone looking out for you.
People aren’t wearing masks solely for your benefit. Astonishingly enough, you are not the center of the universe. They’re also doing it for their neighbors and coworkers who might *not* be you.
Get over yourself.
You hit the nail on the head Ben and I’m sick of listening to their whining and bashing us for not wearing mask when there are the sheep and the fools who are falling prey to the big government scare tactics
I still dont understand how rioters are able to advance through city streets most without masks. But an individual is banished from going to buy a soda at convenience store cause they arent wearing a mask. Kinda hypocritical
Thank you for putting our health and safety first. So many truck drivers or people in general can’t seem to comprehend that the mask they wear protects others more than themselves. Sad that this country as a whole can’t just do what’s right without having to be told and that’s showing in the riding numbers across the country.
Well Kelly, since u think your the expert on this, where are your Dr. degrees?? It all comes down to masks do help, it’s been proven! But most of all it helps the other people. It also comes down to Love, if you love your brother , GOD says, we must love, once we care about others, then that good will come back to use! Remember, What goes around, Comes around! Gods blessings to y’all! 🦅🙏
More virtue signalling. These masks are ineffective at best. The virus is microscopic. If you look at any of these masks under a microscope, you will see huge holes. This is a power play on the part of local and state governments.
The purpose of cloth masks is not to filter out viral particles. It’s to keep blobs of mucus from reaching other people, when you sneeze, cough, or even breathe wetly. Anyone with a beard knows that their breath will condense in their beard, when it is cold outside. Moisture comes out when you breathe. The virus travels with this moisture, and settles on other people and on surfaces that they touch. It survives up to 24 hours on porous surfaces (like cloth or paper), and up to 72 hours on hard surfaces (like countertops). Sunlight (ultraviolet light) and heat can kill it faster, as can nearly any type of soap, with variable effectiveness and speed.
It takes a certain amount of viral material to establish a sustained infection. The masks mitigate – not prevent – exposure. Gloves don’t entirely keep your hands clean durinf fueling, but if you wear them, your hands will get a lot less dirty. Cloth masks won’t protect you from getting the virus, but they do significantly reduce the amount of viral material that gets spread around.
Oh yes wear your masks like good like sheep. Do everything the man tells you to. Don’t think for yourselves, Just run scared and hope the government will fix it.
They force you to wear a mask the same as they force you to follow D.O.T rules. They will keep pushing more and more rules on you until you won’t be able to get out of your truck.
I’ve never seen so many scared rabbits worrying that they will catch a cold.
U must live sheep Duane I’m worried about u
It all started when the government required that everyone wear pants in public… Let’s all take off our pants in protest!
I wanna see that, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
I don’t. We all look better in our wrappers.
Fellow truckers. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. What’s the big deal? Wear a mask. The mask that other’s wear protect you from them. Are you so inconsiderate of your fellow man/woman that you can’t return the favor? By the way. This is just lip service from the truckstops. They want to portray themselves as the good. Unfortunately, they don’t enforce their own policy.
Masks are in the same boat as c.a.r.b. trucks. Its a money grab. Remember people 200,000 people where supposed to die in the first 2 weeks of april. A lot of industries retooled for p.p.e. demands and then nothing happened. Warehouses are full of this crap and nobody is buying it. Make it mandatory and all of a sudden its flying off the shelves. The people wearing masks are the same ones that bought all the toilet paper and bleach and hid inside. If your worried stay at home. The 900 bucks you have been getting should have you held over for awhile. I cant believe the stupidity. Good luck and god speed
The government encouraged production, because demand had already stripped supply bare, and there was reason to be concerned that production would not otherwise keep pace with life-or-death need. I don’t recall any great outcry against the idea, at the time, but it’s eaay to armchair quarterback after the game ends – especially when you revise which teams showed up to play.
As far back as 2011, Hollywood predicted that there would be a run on toilet paper in this situation. Watch “Contagion”. No one should have been surprised when it happened.
By the way… 150,000 people have died of the virus in tge United States, and 10,000 more are dying each day or were, when last statistics were reported through the CDC website over a week ago. 200,000 was predicted in the first week of April, as a projection of total deaths before a vaccine could be developed. That prediction may well have come true this past week – but we won’t know, because the White House ordered hospitals to report their numbers to HHS instead of CDC, and HHS hasn’t made a public update to their figures in over a week.
Do you honestly believe that 10,000 people die a day of this virus boy they sure got the scare in you.
I doubt the figures we are getting. There have been hospitals that have been caught falsifying the numbers. There have been people who were killed in accidents whose cause of death was listed as Covid. Others have been falsely attributed to covid, even though the actual cause was a stroke or heart attack. In Houston, people who are admitted to the hospital for ANY reason are being listed as Covid patients. There are people who are being notified that they tested positive for covid even though they weren’t tested. The covid testing centers are reporting 100% positive, and when the smart ones get a second opinion, they test negative. This whole thing smells.
All of you drivers that think pilot is a clean space lol take another look since jan mask have been in use but now they try to make it mandatory what happened in sayre oklahoma there employee gets covid they shut down and then reopen still gave you a choice on mask now that walmart says wear them they want on that band wagon something fishy and if there so concerned about gearms well go clean your fuel pump nosles there very unsanitary try to get paper towls and of course there is none what about window squegy who knows when it has been cleaned i do wear my mask because of dirty as drivers but i believe its our choice just like smoking a cigarette it kills but its my choice driver so take this to mind all you cry babies watching everyone else start minding your own business and stop worrying about that other driver go out and pull of that fuel island take your break in the proper place
Nope!!! Go ahead….Say something!!!
David Jones, excellent reply.
Thank you! The RESPONSE to this coronavirus is maddening and corrupt. Look at the fear in these responses, have you seen the fear in the eyes of the mask wearers everywhere?!?! My goodness. The Democrats are getting what they want…a scared, confused and compliant populace. Thank goodness there is some push back on this scheme.
Do not wear that mask !! Takes an idiot to wear one after the science has been done and the proof spells its all for nothing. I said : ALL FOR NOTHING !!!!
You’re being BAMBOOZLED !!!
I just left Dodge City KS. Neither the Love’s nor Flying J are enforcing the mask guideline. In Amarillo, drivers are “open carrying”, nobody is confronting that situation. We, the professional driver, are probably to blame for so many infections from region to region. I would encourage the major truck travel centers to post a paid Security Guard to enforce the rule.
Really, what does any one expect? Love’s Pilot, TA employees are already to chicken to confront a-hole drivers that park wherever they wish!
Hopefully, some of the really stupid drivers will meet Darwin.
Show me similar indisputable proof that you exist. Cloth masks are no more infallible than the people who wear them (or don’t). Wearing one is better than not wearing one, as evidenced (not proven beyond a shadow of a doubt) by the results in places that do so. Wearing one correctly is better than wearing it on your chin. Wearing a good one is better than wearing a bad one…
Any motor oil in your engine is better than no oil. No oil can make an engine last forever, but we still use oil – the best that we can – to keep our engines running. If we don’t, we break down. It’s not precise, but we know what works and what doesn’t. Masks work. So does oil. Accept that the threshold of evidence supporting these conclusions is the same, and act on masks, the same as you do on oil.
Both work, and yes, if you are doing one, you are not expected to do the other. Since truck stop indoor facilities are difficult places to maintain social distance, truck stop operators are requiring masks. It is unreasonable to expect other patrons to stay six feet away from you because you won’t wear a mask. Other people need food and bathrooms, too. It is impossible for truck stop staff to do so, while serving you.
If you don’t go into the truck stop, you probably don’t need a mask. If you do… well, it’s their building. Follow their rules, or go somewhere else.
I sat here this morning, and read every one of these comments. It SAD….
Hell I had it,wife had it, friends from work too. What you scared of sissy. Its just the flu. Don’t tell me you believe with out question…. cause the news puts out what its told. Use to to work for a news company…..yes they lie.
WOW! I’m sorry to see so many idiots on this post. I’d say 7th graders, but that really insults 7th graders!!!
First- I’m so glad I am retired! That said, I pray each day for those of you still driving 🙏
Second-stop being so stupid and ignorant!! Just wear it!!!
“Just wear it” coming from the Grim Reaper. 😂.
Omg 150,000 have supposedly died ? Which are from the covid virus and how many from the flu and pneumonia since the news said they were all put down as covid ? I also spoke to an older man the other day whos mother in law in her 80s died from a heart attack. The hospital put down it was from covid complications. She had no signs of it or anything pointing that way. The family had to dish out 20,000 $ to have a complete autopsy and the death certificate changed as the life insurance refused to pay for a covid death. I’m not wearing a mask and will not go anywhere but the dr office who requests one. There are close to 4 million people in Oklahoma alone and you think 150,000 is bad ? Even after proof the tests are unreliable ? People do die from other things. I social distance if i dont know you but I’m not wearing a paper mask. If it gets to where it’s a state requirement you will know me, because just to piss you off I will put on a full face military gas mask and jumpsuit with shoe coverings.
They’re not truckstops anymore. Nothing but convenience stores now days.
The CDC and OSHA ppe safety experts have put out statements telling people to only wear a mask IF you are sick. The politicians have fear mongers have fed so many agenda driven statements that don’t coincide with science and the truth that people are blindly following and believing what they hear because it’s easier to follow than fight for what’s right.
Well said. Mark Eitemiller
Hey chicken littles the sky is falling better stay home and get under your desk! SNOWFLAKE CUPCAKES!!
Typical American attitude, screw everyone else, keep the virus going. U.S. always wants to be # 1. News Flash men and women, you are # 1….leading all covid-19 deaths in the world……wake up Morons! Just like the Buffoon running the country.
NOT!!
The only reason we have more cases is because the numbers are being fudged. As far as the death toll, there was a young man here who died in a motorcycle accident and his death certificate said “COVID”! If his family hadn’t raised hell, we would have never known. There was another one who died from a gunshot wound to the head. What was his official cause of death? That’s right, covid! If you are admitted into the hospital for any reason, they list you as a covid patient. Now, since they’re lying about these numbers, what makes you think they aren’t lying about the masks?
I care truck drivers and visitors come from all states and different countries. Local or not. Why should we get viruses that can kill us our family our children grand children others who go around us as well. No one said everyone gets it or dies but the way it looks there are a Hugh majority who don’t care about it and say it’s not a bad virus. Do your home work. It kills the results that come from it are terrifying. The symptoms are horrific. For those of you who think this covid 19 is a joke. I pray your family or friends never get it. Or you yourself. Wear a mask wash your hands and clean any items you purchase or handle. God Bless to all of you Be Safe
I will not comply.
Me either!! There are too many useful idiots out here the way it is.
Do you people really believe this crap about the virus .I guess the government got the scare in ever One you will see after the election that all of this crap will go away.
150,000 deaths from the covid 19 virus now in the United States. Wear a mask. It’s not a flu it’s deadly. Some recover and yet very healthy people have died from it. Lucky your not in China theyd cremate you alive if you have it.
Missionary Evangelist, Robert Breaker.
Can you see in 2020.
You Tube.
Tells it like it really is, and why mask are Satan. 👹👹
I heard a rumor that you can still smell 💩 thru a face mask. Just more proof that they don’t work.
They’re not designed to filter out tiny molecules, but methane (farts) is a much smaller molecule than the virus, anyway, so odors are not evidence of ineffectiveness, even if cloth masks were designed to filter out the virus.
Cloth masks are designed to mitigate the movement of moisture coming from your mouth and nose, on which the virus is carried. It’s not perfect, but less spread is better than more spread, and cloth masks are what we have. They’re not supposed to be perfect – just better than nothing.
So for those of you who refuse to wear masks. Then I suppose if you ever need surgery done by doctors that you wouldn’t mind if they or the attending staff didn’t wear masks or gloves or use any kind of sanitizers. Or that anyone assisting to you if your in an accident doesn’t care enough to wear a mask even if they have covid 19. You said it, no one should have to wear a mask. Not even if they are a silent carrier of this contagious virus. Hmmmm.
In 2009 there were over 55 million cases of H1N1, None of the schools were closed down and we did not have to wear a mask. Think about that one.
H1N1 was a good deal less virulent, we had both treatment options and variably successful preventative measures that were much less drastic, and it wasn’t nearly as debilitating or lethal.
We (as a population) were also not entirely without naturally occurring and immunization-based immunity, thanks to other, similar diseases and their related immune responses. COVID-19, not so much…
No disrespect to those that did die, but COVID-19 is much more worrying.
Ain’t no one leaving here alive so trash that stupid mask and stop being chicken 💩 to die !!!!!
If you’re looking for volunteers to play Covid Roulette… You first! 😛
Masks in and of themselves are not very worrying to me. It’s just the start. The real threat is not the virus, but the fact that we are all being played by psychopathic billionaires, who have hijacked the world’s governments.
Watch Event 201. Which was a tabletop exercise put on by the Gates Foundation and Johns Hopkins to plan a response to a global coronavirus pandemic. This was about two weeks before SARS-COV-2 allegedly appeared on the face of the earth. They discussed using trauma based mind control and social engineering measures to coerce people into accepting more top down control. There was focus on media censorship, internet blackouts, and arresting people for spreading “misinformation” which is really Orwellian double speak for truth.
Look up what happened recently to “America’s Frontline Doctors” and that will give you a great idea what this fascist state thinks of truth, science and health.
Also the Rockefeller Foundation’s Lockstep document. The latter you can find out about by searching “Harry Vox 2014” on duckduckgo and looking for a 13min vid by said investigative journalist.
You’d have to be a die-hard coincidence theorist to not realize there’s a long-standing agenda being driven through all this.
Wow.! Most of you sound like kids who’s parents are urging you to clean your room and you refuse because you don’t want to be seen as sheep.
I don’t remember this kind of fuss when smoking wasn’t allowed in public.
But some of you would rather listen to uneducated habitual liar
In the White House it’s scary how you all think alike.
Let’s ignore the the people that’s been studying science all their professional careers and let’s listen to the proven liar,that paid his way through school has never gone through hard times.
All you have to do is walk into a hospital and see for yourself what’s real and what is BS.