boomtown

WHAT??? When did they do this?? I haven't been past there for quite a while... man, that stinks!! They used to be one of the better places to stop in that area...

I bet they figured they could make more money off of the four-wheeler traffic...

 

I just came back from R&R in the states and one of the things we did was rent a car and drive around the west coast and i stopped in Boomtown only to see the old truck stop gone and a new Cabbela's being built in its place. I talked to several people in the casino and they said it was news to them even they just up and shut it down and are planning a new one in a year or two but until then it's Siera Sid's or nothing.

 

When I lived in Tahoe, I always said I wanted to buy a chunk of I-80 desert east of Fernley & throw a TS on it.

Maybe now would be a good time to do it.

 

this is a sore subject with me. That place started as a truck stop and for years they have been pushing us out. A few years back I tried to park my bobtail by the casino and go in. I made it all of about twenty feet before security ushered me back to my truck. there was nobody around, I parked in the back and my bobtail only took two spots.
This week I stoped and found the ts gone. I parked my bobtail in the mini mart lot as I was having some stomach isues!!! lol. THis time I managed to make it about thirty feet but then I had TWO security vehicles pull up from opposite directions and try to usher me out. Which I responded by telling the fine man that if I didn't get in that store in 30 seconds I would paint the hood of his truck for him (only I used slightly more colorful language)
so this leads me to belive we have gone from there target clientele to public enemy number one

 

We're not public enemies #1, we've just outlived our usefulness as viable customers & fortune builders.

There's no truckstops anymore; Just travel centers.

It's our own fault. You have a media dead set against anything trucking because it sells newsprint & airtime. We have our own "weakest links" doing everything they can to sabotage what little good image we retain. Put the two together & you have an insurmountable wall of bad public image.

Still, it's ###### disheartening to see truckers being thrown out in the cold. We're the bulk of the reason that these companies began & prospered.

How easily these "big time" operaters forget from whence they came.

There's plenty of other casinos in Nv that would love to have your money flowing thru them.