Travel Centers of America is failing and will declare bankruptcy within five years.

Unless I am mistaken, the Joplin Petro is like the Daniel Boone TA, Iowa 80 TA, and a handful of others that are merely a franchise of TA/Petro, not owned by TA/Petro

 

At least they don’t push the stupid mask BS. Why some pilots after 9 months suddenly have a problem with me not wearing one I don’t understand. First off it’s my face. You wear a mask to protect YOU. MY face has nothing to do with you. Second, most of you wear cloth masks. They do nothing. It’s like trying to stop wind with a chain link fence. Third, masks even in surgical environments don’t work so why would they in a non-sterile pilot? Look at the studies. There is also a study out now linking masks to lung cancer. A human being was not designed to wear a mask 8 hours a day for 9 months. Pilot is ruining their employees health. We will see an effect years from now. Then we have this new attitude of I can do anything as long as I am masked up. Pilots aren’t cleaning the bathrooms any more, aren’t cleaning the touch screens, you’re allowed to get your own soup and drinks again. Touch anything you want as long as you have a mask on! Then eat that bag of chips and that sub with the same fingers.

Stop the nonsense. I won’t even get into these governors and how they can’t mandate something forever. Sorry you can’t do it. Nobody but GOD can force me to wear a mask so don’t even ask. I’ll shop someplace else thank you.

Everyone reading this should feel and think the same way. If you want to wear a mask God bless, but forcing it after nearly a year is insane. Why people aren’t pushing back I’ll never understand. If you don’t me our government could get millions to wear masks for 9 months without firing a single shot I would have said you are crazy.

No wonder nobody care about the stolen elections and Epstein and the rest of it. All the maskers are a bunch of sheep!

Rant OVER.

 

“If you told me...”

 

That’s a matter you’re better off taking up in Pilot thread or with a state government.

 

I'm changing my outlook.

Someone at Landstar or Flying J woke up and smelled the DEF tank.

Our discount at The J, not Pilots, is now bigger than TA & Petro.

They will lose all of Landstar's business without the restaurants. Without the Skillet and Country Pride's, especially no buffet, they've already lost me.

 

My fuel card is mainly TA and ambest now but im thinking i made a mistake getting it because the restaurants were all TA had going for them. They were already phasing them out but since all the shutdown #### TA has nothing to offer.

 

They used to be that way, but then they wasted all that money reversing the angles for Park & View.

 

Idle Air, that's what I meant. Thank you for correcting me.

I dare say all the money they wasted on those two ventures is what started this death spiral.