parking question (north carolina)

I have a real quick question for my ttr friends that may help someone else out in the process...

I rarely find myself in north carolina, and every time I have, parking for the night has been a nightmare! All of the truck stops seem smaller than what I'm used to, there are less of them, and it seems like they are filled to the brim around 6:30 pm local time.

My question is this : I'm parked at the eb rest area right before exit 135 on I 40, and my other option is the eb rest area at mm 180 on i40. Time is not an issue, I just don't wanna get there and find it full.

Should I roll onwards? Or should I just stop now while I'm ahead?

 

You'd be the 3rd person to say that haha.

Anywhere else and id have kept driving. But I still have vietnam style flashbacks of the last time I tried to park in nc... and the chat with the logs dept the next morning.

 

Oh it burns me up to leave for tomorrow what I could do today, believe me

The only reason I didn't think of that stop in mocksville is cause of that relatively big stop in conover where I swear I saw guys sleeping in the fuel islands 0.o

And yeah, no parking at the customer. They have a huge parking lot too.... I suspect some previous driver emptied his/her garbage can in the lot and ruined it for everyone!