Any truck stops closing because of quarantine orders?

Actually aren't any scales once you get on the Turnpike. Unless there are actually scales at the booth? I've always suspected, but was never sure.

 

Well I was thinking more along the lines of I've never heard of anybody being stopped at a toll plaza for having 35k on the drives.

Update: the shower at Dansville NY has no toilet paper. So I wiped my ### with the coupons for the Country Pride that they won't honor because "dine in only".

One does what one must.

 

It's up to you boss. No job is worth your life but there's still work out here. Pay isn't really getting better in spite of demand and you're gonna be in your rig 24/7 because there's almost no place for you to go.

For now truck stops still have showers, but bathrooms are,,, uncommon. I'm hearing stories of shippers/receivers not letting us use the bathroom or wash up. No sit down restaurants, take out is available but bathrooms? In the east we have a few convenience store chains that have bathrooms and hot meals. Oh and parking is getting hard to come by.

My advice? Run local/regional in area you know for now. Don't be more than a full tank of fuel from home because there are major macro economic issues under the surface and if you get caught 800 miles from home there might not be public transportation back.

 

Yeah, if there's one good thing about the response to this pandemic, it's we finally have an out from unscrupulous trucking companies.

A bad outfit will starve you of loads until you quit. Making you ineligible for unemployment. Then they'll sully your DAC so you can't find another job.

We've seen the sob stories time and time again.

Now it's like, "I felt ill, and they had me transporting food. So I refused and entered self quarantine."

Not just food though, you could cough on a box and infect an entire warehouse. That's how mad it is.