Pilot Sturbridge Ma

My current employer only allows us to fuel at Pilot/Flying J.

It's torture! Cramped lots not made for 53 footers, showers with mildew in them. You're lucky if you get hot water in them & the rooms themselves are barely big enough to turn around in. Long lines for check-out. Don't even get me started on that rotten pizza they sell!

It appears to me that Love's biggest competitors have been forced to consolidate with each other in order to stay in business. I would say "in order to compete", but there is no comparison, and therefore no competition.

Pilot, in particular, appears to be practically giving fuel away in the form of fleet discounts, at the expense of being able to budget for things lot lot repair, pump repair & salaries. I say "salaries" because so many of their shower cleaning people don't do a great job, they don't have enough people to empty trash cans or pick up trash in the lots & they rarely have enough cashiers.

Just my opinions. I have actually heard of drivers who LOVE Pilots.

 

kemosabi,

Do you remember when before Pilot bought Sturbridge the large building was open? That was the largest building I have ever seen in any travel center. What a shame to let it go to waste.

 

I don't know how they get drivers to do that job in MA, CT, RI, NYC, NJ, Thank goodness I don't have too. Wow. What a Nightmare.

They want the "new immigrants" to put up with it after all the citizen truckers retire or resign. So, Who cares right? Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is closing in on taking complete command of pp-let. So the employees of pp-let are just waiting for the axe to drop.

 

Recent rebuild? As in how recent? It's been a hot minute since I've been out there, just curious as to what's "new".

 

Well. IMO. They can have that. Actually there are a whole LOT of places I avoid, and I mean for the rest of my life already. seattle, portland, chicrapo, just go outside of atlanta, and then there are too many to list, that I avoid during rush hours dependin on you direction in or out of there. We need more than 70 hours a week now.