Truck stop motels? When do drivers ever stay at motels?

Some guys like to get out of the Truck...Me I don't care never stayed in a Hotel.

 

always went to a motel when I had a chance...cable tv, Chinese food or pizza delivery, espn and movie channels on the tv, cold beer, big bed, shower and a CLEAN toilet!!!

 

When I first started out solo after 275 hours of training... (I was basically doing team and they making money off of me). Anyways, my truck had no air condition for 2 weeks in the middle of summer. Yes I woke up all sweaty, couldnt sleep cuz it was so hot, and they still didnt fix my truck until... dispatch finally gave in after 2 weeks and got me to a hotel. Oh MY GOSH, nice shower, clean sheets, oh it was so awesome. They finally fixed the A/C haha; every driver I talked to said they wouldnt have gone thru that and would of made em get em a new truck.

 

It depends on where I'm meeting my husband when he's near home. If it's a 10 hour stop, we stay in the truck. (True love is two adults in a twin bed and a set of ear plugs for the snoring! LOL) If its a 24 hour lay over it depends on if there's a hotel near by. If there isn't we stay in the truck. I've only talked him into a hotel once. Advantage to the hotel room was that there was space to sprawl and not having to put on shoes to go to the bathroom and waking him up to walk me there. Overall, if there was secure parking for the truck it might be more doable, but he is VERY conscientious about being responsible for his truck/ load. For me, the brand of the hotel would be taken into consideration. The one we stayed at was a "no name".

 

If my A/C doesn't work in the summertime, then neither do I.

That's what my CDL instructors told me to say.

 

In the almost 5 years that I've owned my truck, I can count the days the AC worked on 1 hand....and still have 4 fingers and a thumb left over. I don't even use the AC here at the house, either. It has central air, but I couldn't tell you if it works or not...haven't even tried turning it on in at least 6 years. Even back when I first started driving OTR, I didn't use the AC until I bought one of those coolers that maintains 40 degrees below the ambient temperature...meaning if I didn't want my food to spoil, I had to keep the inside of the truck below 80 degrees...and if that cooler wasn't in the truck, the AC wasn't used. I remember my first trip to Laredo...had the windows rolled down cruising down the highway...temps inside the truck reached a cool 120.

I LOVE warm weather. Cold I can do without...got no use for temps below 90 unless it's going to snow.

 

Allow Me .... excuse me, but your age is showing. 76 truckstops? ... with rooms? those were the days ... that I'm not sure I want to go back to.

I stay in a $50-$65 room at least once/wk, sometimes twice. I spend resets outside of Boston and in mid Jersey and in So Cal at some gems that are off the trucker beaten path, pricey ($100+) but near where I want to be and very comfortable, as well I try and stay at the Little America Flagstaff on weekend nights if the situation allows. But I made up my mind if I couldn't treat myself once or twice a week and live like a real person, hanging out where non-truckers were at least a few nights here and there, I didn't want any more part of trucking (no offense, truckers)

 

Not everyone is driving a truck with a sleeper. Like those guys pulling several brand new trucks behind them. They're usually all day cabs and thus, they have to get a hotel room each night they're en route. Also some companies only have day cabs and for special fuel deliveries the company will pay for a hotel room for the drivers to sleep in each night. I've heard of this through friends who drove for MacKenzie who had a special jet fuel load from Florida to California.

 

if i recall well enough,the petro in weatherford,texas used to have a small building in the middle of the lot that was basically a bunk house-private small rooms to rent for 8 hours i think.basic rooms that got you out of the truck i reckon.

anyone remember them? this was late 80's/early 90's.i haven't been that far west since around '93 or '94.i bet things have really changed.