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It is not a well traveled Highway for trucks. The GPS is never going to route you that way because it is way longer... so a lot of drivers don't know about it, which is fine with me.. the only trucks u going to see on that road is local guys , like loggers and fuel haulers... not much car traffic either.. The road is maintained ok. But you gonna have to be careful regardless because it will be snow covered and it's a secondary Highway so they don't focus a lot of maintenance on it.. But I've never been on it where it was not passable... I think the speed limit is 65 but don't expect to drive fast even if it's dry. Lots of wildlife on that road as well as a couple small towns to go thru... u will lose cell service outside of the town's but it's not that bad... I used to run out of the stuzke stone quarry in Clark fork id and had some work over in plains MT and Thompson falls MT. So was on that Highway a couple times a week..there's a hole in the wall truckstop in plains MT right next to the DOT pullout... it don't look like a truckstop from the road but there's a huge dirt lot in the back that's nice and quiet... it's listed on truckerpath I think ..

 

This is good info, thanks!

I saw the weigh station but on Google satellite view I don't see a truck stop? I see the "Lewis and Clark Whitewater" place and then I see the Expresso Coffee Shack and they both have dirt lots but neither one looks like a truck stop?

On TruckersPath App the only one listed is "Conoco Town Pump" right after the weight station but on satellite view there's a Sinclair but there's no place for trucks there, doesn't even look like they have diesel pumps there? On TruckersPath App that truck stop "Conoco Town Pump" only has 3 reviews and 1 says that it's "a few streets down the road" but that doesn't really help because I don't see anything.........

What truck stop are you talking about could you give me a name to put into Google Maps so I can save it for future reference? And have you ever seen it full at nighttime (Can't really get a good feel for whether it fills up or not on TruckersPath App because it's such an out of the way place that nobody hardly ever updates the status)?

 

It's never updated because there's no trucks on that road.. It doesn't look like much on Google satellite because it's an old picture, they have since expanded that property a lot since that picture was taken... there's room for Probably 10+ trucks in the back lot and there is about 3 or 4 diesel pumps... I've only ever seen at most 2 trucks over night parked there.. U will always find a spot there don't worry... here's the address

325 Railroad Ave, Plains, MT 59859

 

Did they explain that the concrete pads are for your drive axles when dropping empties around the outside, and the legs go in the gravel? When dropping loaded trailers in the middle or by the dock the legs go on the edge of the pad and your drives go on the main part of the pad.

Guys get stuck all the time, I lock my power divider by default and try to not stop until I get to my parking spot.

 

Ask @stwik about, he got hung up for a couple days one weekend I believe in the yard.

 

They'll find something for ya. My post was talking about getting stuck in the gravel on the yard there. He had to wait a couple days I believe for someone to pull him out. He mentioned it was quite the deal.