Rest area: East Coast

Wait - did you just say something positive?

This can’t be allowed! Moderators ! Ban him!

 

ERM not necessarily.

You DO NOT want the Maryland ones. The Law will move you along soon enough or write tickets.

There is one spot on the entire east coast where i used to be able to be not bothered, this would be on US 322 by the US 15 interchange near Duncannon as the crow flies a few miles west of there.

You can pretty much reach anywhere in the east within a day.

 

up and down the east coast, truck parking is at a premium, so you need to find parking ASAP around 4 PM daily. after 6PM, you roll the dice.

there may have to be limits on truck parking some day, due to the amount of truck traffic, and lack of safe places to park.

many states up and down the east coast, have closed the rest areas due to costs. so no many spaces for parking have weeds, rather than trucks parked.

many service plazas are nice across the country, but it's been years since i been out that way.

 

I had some difficulty with your question.

An example, I-95 between I-495 DC and Jessup. There is a pair of rest areas there. But focusing on the east bound one. If you sit more than 20 minutes they ticket you if you refuse to move along, particularly if you put up a fight about federal HOS logs in sleeper or unable to move with the truck. They will get you removed. The threat is there.

If you needed to stop before Maryland, there are like a thousand places minus a few permanently closed truck-stops you can get into. Doswell across from KD or ash-land above Richmond comes to mind. Fredericksburg and Opal are another. You are not that far from Maryland anyway and can take care of yourself way better than some rest stop vending machine.

Alot of rest areas I am familiar with combined with a secret pack of about 20 different places to stick a 18 wheeler in the Maryland area has been developed, paved over, built on or otherwise urbanized beyond reason and you cannot stay there with a 18 wheeler anymore today. Not to mention 65 foot laws against 53 foot trailers and sleeper trucks.

Thats one reason I love to run west. The east coast has become for lack of a better concept a ####ty petri dish capped while stewing in ever accumulating piles of their own crap. Its not all bad there but it's gotten definately untruck friendly. So they are more than welcome to stew in it.

 

i loved that All American across from the Kings Dominion....i made sure i stopped there either going south or north, for my slab of ham breakfast.

i take it, it is not there anymore..??

the last time i had been that far south was back in 1995.????

 

I have had many early meals out of there. They had a small staff in the like 2 am time period when I pull in seeking them breakfasts. I tipped them well. No complaints. Some of them probably passed on by now. They were getting on. And sometimes if it's necessary to spread out papers all over the table planning for battle that was fine too. They always without fail kept that coffee full.

Those were quite the days.

 

I’m pulling your leg. We’re used to whining and complaining here.

The ones on the OH TP even have free showers.