Truck Stops with a grocery store right across the road and safe to walk to

Pilot, oak creek, WI
(just south of Milwaukee)
Pic'n Save across the street. this one is a bit of a hump, but I survived.


TA, bridgeport, MI
(Near Saginaw)
Kroger next door


Pilot, Bloomington, IL
Dollar General (or some kind of dollar store)

 

Atoka, OK just remembered.

 

Maybe we are thinking different ones? But there's the Atoka Love's with a little Walmart beside it and a restaurant on the other side and a Pizza Hut beside that. Atoka is north of Durant.

 

Lol, same time posting. You gotta love US69. One of the icon trucking routes. I can't count the times I ran that highway. I know every pothole.

 

I took a trip down it a few months ago. It did not take long for me to remember why I avoided it and took a little longer route.

 

and half of the time no cell towers and internet connections

 

US 69 isn't bad except during the day time. Its the towns with multiple traffic lights that really eff it up. Mcalester comes to mind. The irony of that town is........they built a "US 69 Bypass" to avoid congestion. The original US 69 became "US 69 Business" through downtown. Then the city allowed Walmart and other developers to come in and build strip malls all along the Bypass. Once that happens, then we need to choke down the speed limit and add multiple traffic lights. I prefer to "go through the woods" on a lot of my routes. Not to avoid scales but just to see the scenery and imagine how truckers in generations past did it. But the perfect way to screw up a nice stretch of US or state highway is:
1. Build a Walmart
2. Walmart lobbies for a lit intersection and its granted.
3. Speed limit reduced to accomodate traffic lights.
4. Other developers build stores on frontage property.
5. Other developers build new neighborhoods on now "prime locations" near shopping areas.
6. Traffic load increases and accident rates increase.
7. Local government decides that this warrants reducing the speed limit further along with increased LE presence, for safety of course.
8. Log jam.

 

Kingman AZ Flying J has a Kmart next door.

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I-94 in MI south of Port Huron is a small Marathon gas station/truck stop with a Meijer across the street.

 

Also the local truck stop in Buffalo NY has a K-Mart next door and a mall across the street.
And the teeny tiny Pilot in Cambridge OH right around I-70/I-77 has a K-Mart next door.