Midwest Travel Plaza in Cuba, Missouri to become T/A

I'm glad they're keeping the restaurant. It's sad they're being replaced with fast food crap.

 

I like that place and with the addition of TA maybe the parking lot will get the attention it desperately needs .
The showers are nothing to write home about either .

 

The day they close the restaurant is the day they lose my business. Perhaps even sooner if they try to strangle the restaurant into closing by wrecking the rest of the facility

 

I'm guessing the only attention it gets is, a bunch of "reserved" parking signs will be added to half the lot. The showers will go from $8 to $16 bucks.

 

I got to talking to a mechanic this week at the Whites Petro in Raphine, Virginia while getting my truck serviced. He told me something I didn’t realize, but it explains a lot, TA/Petro is a publicly traded company.

All the bean counters care about is making the investors and share holders happy, period. This guy had been at that location for 13 years, he’s a master tech, very knowledgeable. He’s looking for a new job, because they just changed the way they pay the shop personal. Instead of a straight hourly pay, it’s now an hourly and commission pay. I said “commission?” “Yep, they want us to upsell extras and spend less time on jobs, the more trucks we touch the more we make.” Unbelievable.

 

bthomann,

Glad to see that you are still contributing to the truck stop posts. It's always a pleasure to read them. Keep it up old friend.

 

All the ta shops have been like that for quite some time..that’s probably why they don’t keep anyone and have a revolving door of mechanics

 

Salary and commission is pretty common.

As far as Dottie’s, stopped in there to eat in 2019 and was quickly reminded that smoking is allowed indoors in MO and haven’t been back. Same reason I wasn’t sad when Farris was bulldozed.

 

To be fair TA mechanics are known to be lazy time sucking dudes.