Quick n Easy truck stop backing question

A lot of the truck stops especially the pilots and Loves have been built in recent times with 53 foot trailers.. They want to squeeze as many trucks in a possible and don't care how long it takes someone to get into a spot.

 

A lot of the older ones, the non brand name ones, were built before 53' trailers. A lot of zoning laws limit the amount of trucks allowed at some truck stops so they try to squeeze as many in as possible.

 

Yes you are thinking right. People forget that most truck stops out there are just rebranded older truck stops. Walk into many TAs and you can find a photo from the 50s or 60s of it. As older truck stops get bought out by the Megas they seem not to make many changes. Go to a new loves and you will find more room and bigger spaces. This is because most loves are built much more recently.

 

A lot of the old TAs were old 76s. Truck Stops of America wasn't founded until 1972.

 

You also need to keep in mind that the parking lots of newer truck stops are designed by engineers that have never even sat in a truck. Let alone backed one into a space at 3am.

 

Loves is still putting them in with blindside parking... Winners there.

 

TA/Petro are known to be easier to park than Pilots or Loves. Just because the truckstop has been there since the sixties, doesn't mean they haven't rearranged the lot.

Loves on the other hand are built that way. Small lot, tight spots.

 

It's not just truck stops. Im at a rest area on I10 and the parking spaces were laid out by someone who has never even seen a truck never mund sat in one.

Its a weird herringbone type layout where if you pull into the spot far enough to let a truck get vy behind you it means your hood sticks out too far in front so trucks struggle to get by in front.

I am just hoping the truck right beside me leaves before I do or am going to have to mount the curb to make the turn past him.

 

Ummm, a lot of what we do in life was designed by someone we don't know, and made by someone we never thought existed and neither of them use or know what they just built.

So I disagree that it is the truck stop engineers fault. I think as a professional in an ever changing industry, we should adapt and overcome the circumstances in which we have no control.

Or we can just go back to #####ing about toilet paper holders and why they don't have directions with arrows for placement.