Quick n Easy truck stop backing question

Next, someone will say interstates were made by non truck drivers and they have too many hills and curves.

 

Are you claiming that they were?

 

53 foot trailers and zoning is only part of the issue. The primary issue driving parking space is two fold, the first is land is very expensive. Then truck stop insurance rates are also based on size. Just adding an acre of parking in some places can add up to a million bucks to start up costs. Then you have the local tax issues.

 

The worst one I saw was a pilot in Virgnia just north of the scale house. I got pulled in for an inspection. Well Iost all of my hours and they wouldn't let me stay there.

So I go a few miles to a Pilot with about 10 spots. It was so tight you had to go through the fuel line and park nose in. When you leve you have to back up to date the fuel islands.

 

Certainly with many older truck stops this is the case but with newer builds, You don't create, and buy the lot you want. You have to work with what is there. Many times 10 more feet would have been ideal but it couldn't be negotiated with the [other] land owner.

Where you see this the most is rest areas that were built 40-60 years ago when 45 foot trailers were the norm and there simply is no room for today's rigs.

 

I'm claiming to be a ######## in another #####y thread.

Really mod. One gets censored but not the other?

 

Good times to be had in Roanoke.

 

I get a laugh everytime someone mentions our interstate highway network in regard to why and who the network was built for. The true answer is real simple. WW2 SHAEF Commander Gen Dwight Eisenhower was impressed with how Nazi Germany was able to move goods needed for their war efforts using the autobahn quicker. Our interstates were designed to move items needed for the economy in a better way. While it is true that our trucks move the economy they were not just built for trucks. There are several websites that have debunked a lot of myths about the interstate network.

 

..... I already knew this. What's your point?