Mom N Pop restaurants you can fit at.

Country Kitchen, Big Pine, CA US 395. Truck parking and owner works there.
Ranch house cafe, Olancha, CA US 395. Truck parking and owner works there.

I'll think of more

 

By the time I pull the trigger and start my career, these wonderful places will be long gone.

 

About 10mi east of Jugtown Mountain in NJ is the Spinning Wheel Diner on rt 22 eastbound. It's a ~10min detour off 78. I've never seen more than maybe 3 trucks parked there at a time.

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Lucille's Roadhouse Diner in Weatherford, OK. There's plenty of pull through parking next door at The Fastland Travel Center. Great ribeye steak...oh heck everything is good.

If you need a pair of new work boots or work wear there's a Western wear shop inside the truck stop.

 

Diesel Country in Le Grand, CA, (can't remember the highway) was a small mom/pop place, with a real chicken coop outside back...

great steak dinner, only needed a butter knife to cut the steak, great half a chicken with all the trimmings, so tender the meat fell off the bones.

dirt lot, but SUPER quiet, out in the middle of no where....long gone now, i think it's a Pilot now..????

so you see, you snoozed, you losed.....

 

The Outpost Cafe where the I-15 and jct 395 split in California is all home cooked. Plenty of parking since it sits at the Pilot.

 

Ramblers Roost in Van Wert OH has a 24 hr diner, but they are closing end of September. Caroline’s Kitchen in Bucyrus OH has parking across the street, huge lot and I don’t think there’s been more than 10 trucks there.

 

The Rt 30 bypass killed Ramblers Roost... Sad to see another spot gone

 

I read an article that said the Ramblers Roost Restaurant was closing because the owner wanted to retire but I'm sure the 4 lane didn't help any.