New Chicago Truck stop

Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by HalpinUout, Jul 23, 2015.

  1. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    The Loves in South Holland still is under construction, and it looks like a lot of building for a Loves.

    Will County is a sore subject, just far enough from the city and burbs to get the traffic, and broke enough that enforcement pulls the old highwaymen routine on trucks, particularly out of state trucks.

    Seeing as how ours are carrying WI papers, and we run out of Iowa, that little bit of extra head scratching gives them time to figure out new ways to get a little money for donuts. Avoid when traffic is too light.
     
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  3. Hoofbeats

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    Wasn't there a truck stop around the 257 on I55? I used to stop there. They used to have the best lunch buffet. It was hot dogs and hamburgers with all of the fixings. It was a Mom and Pop place. It was bought out by a bunch of Indians. It started to turn into a real toilet, real fast. I stopped going there after the third or fourth time after it was bought by them. I left the country shortly afterwards and have never been back since. This would have been almost ten years ago.
     
  4. Bean Jr.

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    I have stopped at the Amerifreight. It is really clean and inviting.
     
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  5. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    The story on that was the locals got it rezoned and shut it down that way. It was used recently for construction staging when US30 was being updated.
     
  6. HalpinUout

    HalpinUout Road Train Member

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    I was checking my lottery tickets online and tonight's "Lucky Day Lotto" winner was sold at the Amerifreight Truckstop in Northlake. $350,000 I hope a deserving driver was the lucky winner!!!
     
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  7. scottied67

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    What I do is go into the gate and get the parking ticket, get on the CAT scale and weigh. Then go out the gate, around the block again and park in the fuel island and go in and pay for CAT scale. BTW, they only take cash. If I need a reweigh, just repeat the process. The guy at the out gate loos at me funny like he has an extreme case of deja vu.
     
  8. HalpinUout

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    Why would you leave out of the lot and then go around the block and come back in and then block the fuel Island? :withstupid:

    What you do is pull into the lot get the little ticket from the automated gate pull onto the CAT scale once weighed go pull up near the building go in get your scale ticket, If you need reweigh pull right back on the scale do it all over again. If everything Is good then you exit out. :hello1: Very Simple

    And believe me I've scale at that truck stop lots and lots of times
     
  9. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Oftentimes that side of the shop was full of trucks parked up in there. Plus it is a longer roundtrip walk that way, my way, I step out the truck and walk in the front door right there. Takes longer to get a cup of coffee doing it my way.

    I've probably scaled there more than you lol
     
  10. HalpinUout

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    What ever floats your boat my friend.
     
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  11. scottied67

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    Maybe I will video it next time to prove my way is faster lol
     
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