Breaks at fuel island

I don't know what it is about Love's but every time I pull in to one there are several trucks parked in the fuel island. I have been avoiding Loves for this specific reason. I spoke to the store manager at the Love's in Max Meadows, VA last night about this. I asked her if she could move a truck off the island for me so I could use the air hose. She said that if the driver didn't move there was not much she could do about it because they were given a directive from the corporate office about not calling for a tow truck to move trucks parked in or near the fuel island after receiving a formal complaint from a mega-carrier after towing one of their units off. The driver who was parked in front of me was parked there while in the bunk for almost 4 hours last night. Totally ridiculous.

 

I avoid Loves at all costs. They attract the lowest form of scum... free drinks and the points attract the mosquitos of the trucking industry....

 

Pretty sad but that's where the industry is at now..

 

I once called a hook to come help me. The driver walked inside for a minute. Came back out with what looked like a cup of coffee, told me he could not help me and left. I later discovered he had asked the on-duty manager and they said the company had a no tow policy. I had to wait for almost 2 hours for the driver to my left to get up and move so i could get out past the idiot on my right. That moron tested my non-violence policy. Sometime's I think they put CDLs in boxes of cracker jacks!

 

So a company can strike a "no tow policy" deal with loves and basically do whatever the hell they want? ok just another reason why not to do business with them.

 

My favorite folks are the ones who park willingly in front of you and others, then absolutely refuse to move because it'll "trip mah duty status". I totally get having to make your own parking sometimes, but put a little thought into it..

Relevance to this is due to the ones that have done this when I was ironically at a loves, and the management told me there was little they could do. Then the driver of said vehicle said they felt threatened over multiple folks approaching them telling them to move. That's my personal experience on why I avoid loves unless absolutely necessary. 'Side from a few pilot/flying hooks, where they were actually excited about the notion of towing someone.

 

I could not have said it better. It appears that is exactly what happened. MEGA corporate calls truck stop corporate, threatens to stop all fuel transactions, truck stop corporate bends over and says "just break it off easy please," MEGA corporate says "that's what we thought, have a nice day."

It's okay if you want to operate with a no-tow policy but if trucks are parked in your fuel island blocking other business you have to be proactive and keep the trucks moving, IMO.

 

I've realized that the parking situation, fueling situation, losing your hood in the middle of the night situations, pissy parking lot situation are by and large mainly at these big chain garbage fuel stops where they feed you garbage grade D food in a bag.
The people that frequent these places are usually the people who are too self-centered to preplan, or park their truck properly.

Think about it for a moment...you people who are crying about people parking on the fuel island of a Loves...why are you fueling in the middle of the day? You know, the time when the idiots all get off the road and cram onto the fuel island to fuel up and take their 30 minute break and kill 2 birds with 1 stone? The majority of you are solar powered and fair weathered (not saying that being solar powered and fair weathered are wrong), so if you are sitting behind the guys that are taking a 30 minute break on the fuel island, odds are, you are doing the exact same thing that they are. Odds are, some of them got held up waiting on the guy before them that it actually made sense for them to finish a 30.

Change your MO! If you don't like it, change it. Change how you run and when you run. Change when and where you stop. I agree with @ncmickey...I don't go to Loves. I don't go to a truck stop to take a 30. The clock is running, and if you move, it won't do the 30. For you to get off the highway, get into a truckstop get parked and sit for 30 minutes and out the truckstop and back on the highway takes how much time? Then factor in the fuel island fools. How much time are we talking? Alot more than 30 minutes. You suck at preplanning.

At the start of your day, go top off your fuel tanks, go get a sammich and a drink or two. Run your miles. Hit the pickle park for your 30, eat your sammich. Relax. It takes half the time to take a 30 in a pickle park than it does to exit the highway and get in and out of a truck stop. And guess what? No fuel island foolery. Problem solved.

"But Six, I am a company driver and Loves is our fuel stop."

Irrelevant. You shouldn't need to be on the fuel island IF you had fueled up at the beginning of your day.