Truck Parking

Free and reiable Wifi would be good. Go as low as you can on the prices in the Cstore, good healthy food along with some of the usual T/S food. Security preferably off duty PD in the lot to keep the lizards out.Since many big companies have yards in Denver,T/A,Sapp Bros,and Pilot/J offer free parking many truckers will park there before paying to park. Clean and low priced showers. Most T/S's charge $10 or so if a driver doesn't buy 50 gallons of fuel. If you can build your T/S near a decent motel/hotel like Best Western or Holiday Express. There are three reasons I suggested that. The first is when the roads closed due to weather. The second is when a driver has to wait a day or two to their truck fixed due to waiting for a part. The third is if a driver decides to get of the truck for a night while on a 34 restart or has to sit over the weekend on/for a load.

 

I think the fitness part of your plan is important. We as a country need to move more and this profession needs to start having more exposure to some cardio equipment. Especially since I'm not out there yet, I know that I would really appreciate some exercise equipment when the weather won't permit doing something outside when I'm stopped.

I will be going into the profession overweight so get to work , so I can get to work!

-Rob

 

Currently most decent truck stops offer security, private showers, TV rooms & some even have theaters, & wifi! The fitness thing has been tried many years ago & bombed very quickly.

either the drivers didn't want to use it. And the driver's who did want to use it, primariliy damaged it. Plus the truck stops can't even clean a toilet seat properly, so I'm sure there were many who refused to use the exercise equipment because of their sanitation reasons.

At this time, I only know of one truck stop that still has an excersise/weight room. I haven't been there in awhile, so they may have removed it.



Now you have a good idea! But unless there is a need & want for an excersise/weight room, it's going to bomb again! You need to educate the truck drivers first about excersise before they want it.

 

The only truck stop I know of with a fitness room is the Garden of Eden in Eden, ID.

 

The Petro 2 in Gadsen, AL use to have one. I haven't been there since they put the Petro sign up, so Petro may of gotten rid of it.

 

Rob11xx I haven't seen very many drivers exercise in the usual way. I haven't jogged since I was in the USAF. What I usually do when I park at a T/S where I have to walk a little. I also try to keep eating junk food to a mininum.

 

I 70 in Colorado? Where? Parts are on a no drive list for some carriers...

 

Well, seeing as how gyms have been tried before I would say that you would need to reinvent how it's done at truck stops. Get a staff specifically assigned to the gym and try to get them educated on the lifestyles of truckers so they are able to help them in a more specialized way. Some gyms these days are grasping technology and making it more enjoyable to be there. The one I go to locally is open 24/7, the cardio machines have tvs on them to pass the time and they have tons of cable machines that target every muscle quickly.

I know that a quick 45 minutes to a hour of good muscle training will make you feel a lot better, and quickly. Offer something like 100 gallons gets you a shower and some gym time or something.

-Rob

 

Well you better have a very big bank roll, i seen brand new truckstop, built from ground up,then like a year latter it was totaly like a dump the truckers thrashed it bad, they dont care , its not's there's, so they dont care , thats just my honset opion and im sorry i got into a driver face one night becuse he was kicking the jeepers out that soda machine, i looked him right in the eye and said why you kicking that, cause it didnt give my soda, i said go fill out a card and give too the manager then, you just set a bad example for the rest of us i told him, i hope he dont treat his truck like that, Everett.