A bone to pick w/ Bobtails

Truck stops are for trucks, PERIOD.

If you cannot find a parking spot, then maybe perhaps you need to be in a truck stop long before the night time rush.

Too bad for you if a bobtail is in a "big rig spot", I mean after all, a bob tail is just as much a big rig, as one with a trailer.

Why don't you complain about the RV's and campers that take up space for that matter??

Why..??

Because they are being pulled by trucks as well, smaller ones yes, but they cannot readily or easily park in the "car section" either.

SO best advice YOU CAN BE GIVEN???

Get there early.

 

Generally, yes, bobtails are trucks too and should park. What I have an issue with is when there's pull through spots. If you're a bobtail: DO NOT park halfway back in a pull through. Stay to one end or the other to give room for another bobtail to park in the same spot. And if you do show up as a bobtail and there is a botail parked in a pull through DO NOT take a whole spot.

Also, if you have to park in a spot for 73' vehicles, do not park your nose all the way even with the trucks next to you. Especially if a spot next to you is open. WHY would you make it tighter for another driver to hit his spot when you could've given much more room. This is mainly an argument about the small Pilot lots.

 

It's called common sense. If you can park out of the way, park out of the way. Truck stops have all kinds of nooks and crannies. If there is no place, then they have all rights to use a full spot.

We see all kinds of bad things in this job. Other truckers, 4 wheelers, customers, employers....

Don't get stuck in the this bothers me, that bothers me rut. You'll drive yourself crazy with the stress. Nothing is being done but a whole bunch of thinking that raises the BP.

 

Oh boy. I remember when I used to drive for CFI and I got caught out in Portland at night. Lovely truckstops, but hate the area. The last spot for the night at the TA in Troutdale was taken up by a car.

I should've backed over the #### thing.

 

Try getting there before they do.

 

Ya, the Ta in Troutsdale is a mess. You gotta be pulling in there at 8am to ensure an actual parking place. Hookers, dirty parking lot, Russians peddling everything under the sun. Hippies and bums begging my change. Fights in the bar, the popeyes actually sells used chicken. Never more than one person working the fuel desk, and half the pumps dont work, and they dont tell ya which ones. They actually have the nicest but most obnoxious waitress I have ever seen. You know, the one with the hair lip who never shuts the hell up.

What am I saying, LOL I love that place.

 

Newbies!.....Geeze!
Want some cheese with that?

 

Nobody's gonna mention the RV's with slideouts ??

 

I know on several times I have been parked in a bobtail area and wake up to hit the road some jack leg has pulled across all tractors blocking us in. I asked a guy if he could please move, and he he gets all bent out of shape. It is just bad manners on both sides, we all need to think before doing something that causes problems for another. Just my thoughts.