Boycotting pilot

I say go for it...Pilot is now too big for its own good.

But it won't have much effect, too many companies have to fuel there.

 

stopped using Pilots a few years ago...and NO their coffee isnt all that good either...

the only reason I have pulled in to a pilot is if there is absolutley no other cat scale around.
then its weigh and go.

 

$20 is a steal to have your teammate shower with you, it's nice to have someone soap up your back and other areas you can't reach...

 

Good luck, it will never work! Plus, you'll have to deal with the "optimistic nay-sayers" here explaining why the merger was the best thing in trucking since per-diem and 13 cent per mile wages. Not to sound like a submissive driver with a defeatist attitude, but since that company has more money than all of the "TTR" members combined, boycotting them will be the equivalent of beating a dead horse. Notice how I always say "Welcome to the next generation of trucking". We will have to get used to it until things either improve or implode.

 

You got it figured out about this Pilot merger with Flying J. It's more than losing the driver lounges and decent resturants. It should have never been allowed to happen. For OTR trucking purposes close to 85% of the fuel market is cornered by two companies now TA and Pilot. Both those companies give $0.10 to 0.22 off the pump price to larger companies, it's a flat out monopoly sponsored by the US Governemnt. That cash discout price is the true cost of the fule but they even charge more for charge to smaller companies for using credit! Consider the expense bottom feeder Inc doesn't have per truck that a smaller company or Independnet has: Self insured so no insurance monthly premuim, bulk purchase power on all parts, and now the huge fuel discounts because their prefered company PILOT and second choice TA have been allowed to create monopolies.

Right now even though they are a Pilot want to be, I only use Loves to purchase fuel at the chains and every Independent truck stop I am allowed to buy from I make a point to stop there and buy. Am I the only one to notice how dirty all truck stops formerly Flying J and Petro have gotten? They have now assumed the standards of Pilot and TA.

When i first started driving (my profile says four but it hasn't updated this year and I have a few more than that 2000-2006 then 2009 to now) you had Pilot, TA, Petro, Loves, Sapp Brothers (now almost all owed by one of the major chains), Bozzleman, Quicktrips, and about a 1 in 10 Independents like Whites In VA....not that way now and the bigger those 2 fuel chains get the bigger the mega carriers will be driving all the smaller better paying companies out because the cost of fuel will get cheaper for the bigs.

 

Thats a good one!

 

Question for you,
If "You" Owned the Pilot chain how much "profit" would you expect
from your operation "investment"?

Depending on the amount of Investors you would obviously not be entitled to 100%

 

Tater, people tend to forget about that profit thingy...lol