Creative Parking is cool. Until it ain't.

Worst truck stop in the country.
I avoid it at all cost.

 

Not sure what's worse, the new drivers who can't very well deal with cramped conditions, or the older truckers who no longer give a crap and create cramped conditions.

They really need to put a 24/7 pay shack at the scales. Those cat scales drive a lot of the unwanted parking along the egress route. Granted, that was a dumb place to park, but there was no reason for England to have clipped him like that.

The city managers and planners in the area should all be forced to do 20 hours of community service each and every week at this truck stop managing traffic and mal-parked trucks. They cause this cluster #### with their not allowing any more truck stops or truck parking areas anywhere in the area, they should have to deal with the ramifications.

 

I agree, if the coops that are both north and south of
The loves Put in a cat scale, 70 percent of the trucks
Wouldn't waste a minute going in that rat hole.

Only reason I ever stop there is to weigh the truck,
And that could be an hour and a half alone.
Everything else can wait.

 

Nothing new.
Just another poorly trained, inexperienced and unaware driver.

If you ever park in a cluster ####, be aware you may get ####ed.

 

Did we all watch the same video here? What do you mean you saw his trailer tilt? The only tilt I saw was from his steering left mid-lenght of his trailer passing the Volvo.

 

No reason for England to hit that truck......that said, no reason to be parked 3 or 4 deep in a no parking zone.

 

The basic question stands: Why even go in there? There are dudes in there that have lived there for years.

The title of this thread is what 25% of what OTR trucking is all about, and a trip or two to Tacoma or Fife will turn the light bulb on, or burn the old one out.

I'm illegally parked in Olympia as I type this.

Let's define illegal. I'm not sure if it's posted. If no one bothers me, is it really illegal? I have reckoned two other spots, I think I could idle to, without tripping my e-log.

Tomorrow I have FOUR stops in Tacoma, and will probably eat a motel room down the street from that Love's when I'm done, or drive all the way out to the TA, then back into the madness on Friday morning for three more stops, and ending in Everett. From Everett the TA isn't so bad.

When you can take the corndog from my hand, you will have learned.