Shower services at truck stops......

First of all , all the chains have a card you can get to swipe when you fuel . With Pilot it's the Driver Payback card . You get a free shower credit every time you purchase 50 gallons of fuel or more . With Pilot , T/A, and Luv's you also get credits of 1 penny per gallon for purchases at the chain . I stay at Pilots and Flying J's and don't see long waits for showers . Maybe he is trying at the wrong time of day . I run the same states , MI , IN , and OH .

 

Must be a time-of-day issue?

Only once have I waited more than about 10 minutes and that was because the Flying J in Lebec was renovating and had about two-thirds of their showers closed. I shower every/every other day. Sometimes I'll go to bed without a shower and then get up early and have one (but I also wash my bedding weekly).

 

I've seen a problem at Pilots because they are just too lazy to wash showers until a driver needs one . Then they'll wash one . I had a clerk at the Pilot at exit 36 on I-75 in OH tell me if I didn't like it go on down the road . The Pilot on I-64 at exit 92 in IN was the same deal . All the showers were dirty , not being used . They washed one for me then an hour later at shift change they still hadn't washed any others . The Pilots at exit 28 on I-71 in KY keep showers available . On the Pilot Driver Payback Card , Subway , Taco Bell , and Arbys at Pilots will accept them . McDonald's won't .

 

I use to work at the Loves on I 75 in ohio we would always keep them clean I have showered at the Pilot on I 75 at Exit 36 that you are talking about I have hardly ever waited for a shower and I have showered all over the US . All (chain) truck stops have card if you fill 50 gal you get a free shower that usually last between 5-7 days on that card

 

This was about 4 a.m. . They said the guy that cleans the showers was out emptying trash because 2nd shift didn't do it . Nobody was using a shower . I saw all the keys in the drop box .

 

If your hubby pays for a shower and his company doesn't reimburse him for it, save all receipts. They are tax-deductible. Not sure on the details (my company reimburses, so it's not an issue for me) but a tax professional could tell you how to do it.

 

Going off of conversations I've had with the maintenance manager at the Pilot in columbus ohio, I would have to say the problem is that the maintenance staff (the people who take care of the showers, garbage, and restrooms) last a week, sometimes 2, then they quit. The last time I talked to the manager there he told me he had hired and lost nearly a dozen employees in less than a month. He stated that as soon as they get their first paycheck they dissapear, and don't come back. To keep his job as manager he had been there cleaning the showers 12 hours a day for 8 days in a row, because all of his employees had quit again the previous friday, and he was having trouble getting the possition filled. What is this country comming too when people will not work a job or $8 an hour (what he told me the job paid), 40 hours a week, that does not require any experience or education.

 

maybe because $8 an hour is below the poverty level in every state 8x40 = $320 - taxs = 240 a week can you live on that?????