Christmas Eve at a 24-Hour Texas Truck Stop | The Loneliest Night on I-10

I watched that last week. Some pretty interesting videos on their YT channel

 

Why that there video got me a little misty-eyed..

 

Seems that this place is no longer there; was replaced with something more "modern" about 5 years ago. I stopped there once about 36 years ago, and it was......just OK.

 

Good stuff. Filmed in 97 for anyone who is curious.

 

TA Express now.

 

Yes but not in every Petro location. Their corporate office has made several changes since Covid including closing sit down restaurants in some of their truck stops and opting for either all fast food or leasing the sit down restaurant area to private companies like IHOP. Also a good example is their TA division which has closed many of their Country Pride restaurants and left them shut down collecting dust. If they had less drivers eating in their restaurants and eating in their trucks they have decided to shutter the restaurants, raise the costs of showers and parking just to keep a profit. I don't like the extra costs as I was a patron of their sit down restaurants during my career.