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Message:: [QUOTE="insipidtoast, post: 12358191, member: 190086"]We hardly went out of route. It's pretty simple. You can look up all the stops on your route and see where the nice areas are. We like to hike and go for runs, so we looked for truckstops that were located near big parks. In TN, there is a truckstop just across the street from Parker's Crossroads battlefield, which has some very extensive walking paths. In MN there was a nice rest area (on a highway, not interstate) that had a pretty big trail network. The rest area on I-70 in CO was right next to this very long trail in the mountains. So long, that we never figured out how far it went. Del Rio, TX has a nice creek that flows through a park, which we swam in many times when on a layover down there. One time we even took some biodegradable soap and had ourselves a bath in it. Just little things like that. Of course, If you were hauling doubles your options would be much more limited. That was the benefit to otr. With doubles though, since you know you're going to be at certain terminals all the time, you could get a gym membership in the town with the terminal and bobtail there on PC miles. Which ltl companies would allow this? Do those companies let you live in the truck? That level of consistency would be nice compared to otr.[/QUOTE]