Do you agree with reserved truck stop parking?

If truckstops didn’t have rip off prices and crappy food options we would spend money there. It’s pretty sad when the stuff I have in my truck tastes better than what they offer. Fast food sucks. They don’t even stock liquid creamer for my coffee. Pretty much every truck driver drinks coffee so they would sell a ton of it. Imagine if loves got rid of all the subways and put in a dickeys barbecue instead. Imagine if petro and TA revamped their menu or had different offerings in different locations. Imagine if any of them had a bunch of salad premade with decent quality vegetables that were fresh.

 

You’re like the Martin Luther King of truck drivers.

 

I can imagine, but the reality is they have gone to the quick serve food because drivers don't sit in the restaurant anymore. Either they don't have time, or have chosen to cook in their trucks. With the second option becoming more popular it is hurting the availability of good food for those that do not, or can not, cook in the truck.

Same goes for the lack of creamer, or inflated c-store merchandise, they jacknup prices and simply inventory because of what demand is. They only stock what moves.

 

Are you listening to yourself? Most of today’s truck drivers wouldn’t pay $10 for the best meal in the world that changed every day. And you expect them to pay $15 for BBQ every day. Decent quality vegetables that were fresh? What? You mean you want it to be like Pike’s Place Market? How can you go from Dickey’s to fresh vegetables? It doesn’t compute. Come back to earth, driver. You’re catering to maybe, MAYBE, 10% of the drivers who might support your way of thinking, maybe for a few weeks. I just don’t think your business model will work nationally. But thanks for playing.

 

I just know what I’d be willing to pay for. If driver pay was where it should be then drivers could afford decent food. There are a few trucks stops that do you offer salads most notably up in Montana if you go to the town pumps there are lots of options. Talk to the guys running the barbecue shack’s close to truckstops and they will tell you they make lots of money offer drivers sick of eating Subway and Chester’s.

 

They enjoy bbq because it’s something they can’t get very often. But it’s like the decline of the Harley reputation when they put a Harley dealer practically in every county, or Denny’s and Subway. You get sick of it if it’s all that’s usually available.

That said, if I ever run across GOOD LEAN brisket and it’s not priced some ridiculous $25/lb or such, I’ll buy a few pounds of sliced for sandwiches. But good brisket is hard to find.

 

Yeah! but you did all that, but did not park the truck for them. This practice was still in at the Newell truck stop in Newton Kansas in he early 90's. Nothing new, but valet is a person who parks your vehicle for you. Not someone who cleans your windshield, tops off your fluids, checks air pressure.
If you have never been in our shoes, than you cannot speak of such things you have no knowledge of personally. I do not ignore regulations, and they have said many times this, and that is the wave of the future. Only to see it fall to the wayside. I was asked my opinion to reserved parking. I gave it and i will stick by it until the end. I think it is a greed thing, and with all the newbie, yes boss drivers and their electronic, technology driven fiberglass, and plastic trucks out their. Good Luck. If it is so great, and such than why all the are all the company hoppers still complaining? I use to pull Reefer, and dry van for several years. When H.o.S changed i decided to go back and to pull my cattle to my customers. Starting my own successful business with 11 other drivers working for me. I learned through listening to my father, and grandfather , both of whom were OTR drivers back when trucks had coffin boxes, had top speeds of 32 mph downhill with a tailwind.

 

This is how Disneyland keeps the undesirables off their parks. $160 per person. Wowza!

 

I went to Disneyland and all I saw were fat white people eating ice cream cones