Ghosts of truckstops past.

Im from mesquite but im young. In my early 20s

Was this truckstop really as bad as they say?

I find it hard to believe a mesquite location could be worse than the flying j in Oak cliff off i20 and bonnie view

 

Dudley and Petty in Corning. They'd fuel your truck, check everything under the hood, do the windows and park it for you. This was in the 70s. Most of the truck stops on the west coast were that way. Free coffee, free showers, food that didn't look and taste like it came off of an assembly line in some third world country and waitresses who didn't act like they were doing you a favor to wait on you.
Things have sure changed. We don't fuel in truck stops any more unless we have to. We have a tank in the yard and we use key-locks on the road. A couple of our steady customers let us put in fuel tanks and they have showers too.
Like one of our drivers said.."I ain't scared of nothin' on the road but those new truck stops just plain terrify me"

 

Looks like one of the 76s that TA bought out.

 

Pilot ruined a lot of good truckstops.

 

Like the old outpost on I15 out in California.

 

Ted's

 

I'm doing some research for a novel set in 1997. Do you know when Pantyhose Junction closed? My trucker hero is stopping for the night in Dunnigan. I don't know when the Pilot opened, but I have an Overdrive Truck Stop Guide from 1995 and there's no Pilot listed, just the Beacon Dunnigan Truck Stop, which as far as I can figure out was the location of Aldero's, and is now on Google maps as United Truck Stop. I like to make details as accurate as possible, and include a little history when I can.

Thanks to anyone who might have been driving the I-5 in the mid-90s and can enlighten me!

 

Giant T/S on I-40 in NM

 

Or the Outpost on I15 in California.

 

Remember Conn West?