TA just raised shower prices really?

Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by Lonewolf2000, Mar 9, 2019.

  1. Triple Digit Bullhauler

    Triple Digit Bullhauler Heavy Load Member

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    Job security. I thought that is their job and what they get paid for. How hard is it to go spray some disinfectant all over the shower, sink toilet, and floor and use some windex and towel to clean a mirror. I will pull out my trunk monkey next time to clean after my next shower. LOL
     
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  3. thelushlarry

    thelushlarry Road Train Member

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    Soap will make you smell like a girl!
     
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  4. Infosaur

    Infosaur Road Train Member

    You could always try this trick/scam: I was at a TA and the kiosk wouldn't take my card. Neither the bar code or the magnetic stripe would work. Sometimes those kiosks are just dead and don't work. So I went to the fuel desk and after I got marched back to the kiosk to be instructed how to use it (by the way, isn't that the worst? Let's assume I'm completely ignorant for a second.) the clerk couldn't get it to work either. So we go back to the fuel desk and they give me a free pass. They don't call up my account on the network or even ask for a receipt, they just comp you if the kiosk is down.

    (I'm not saying you could unplug the kiosk and report it's "acting funny,,, cause that would be wrong. Why you laughing?)

    I'm not buying that excuse, you can clean a shower and it doesn't have to be used for hours once it's been cleaned. So for ALL the showers to be down at 3 am means either everyone loves taking showers at 3am (demand) or they just neglected to clean them for a long time (the last "rush" period?). Some of us either run nights because we prefer it or we're a strategic distance away from an urban area (who am I kidding? The NIMBYs don't want a truck stop closer than two hours from their cities!) so 3 am, shower, breakfast at a table like a human being for a change, pretrip and on the road by 5 gets you into downtown just before rush hour gets nuts (hopefully?). I don't think a 3am shower is unusual at all.

    There's a PA convenience store I won't use anymore (and I sing their praises all the time, and I'm referring to a specific individual location) because some genius manager decided that 2-4 am was the perfect time to purge & clean ALL the coffee machines! You stop in, you need your wakey-wakey juice only to find they don't have ANY?!? I could BUY a Keurig at Walmart, take it to the bathroom (ick?) plug it in and have a cup in 20 minutes tops, how can you have ALL your coffee machines down for a period of 2 hours overnight?!?
     
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  5. Buy fuel at Pilot or loves get a thousand gallons and get free showers for the whole month that's easiest way to do it honestly.. I usually strive for shower power and usually get it thousand gallons isn't too hard they're the pilot that it opens up all pilot and Flying J showers want a day for free..
     
  6. Gear&Clutch

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    We don't have anything like what you just described and hit gear level 5 almost every month. We just have a 2016 Volvo vnl, sure we stay at one of the overglorified cookiecutter "gas stations" every once in a while such as loves, flying j, and pilot. But we've always got shower credits at our disposal, plus well over 7,500 credits we can use to buy whatever we want in the ta or petro. Then again we fuel at ta/petro 99.9% of the time so getting all of that plus staying platinum is pretty easy. We actually prefer the more almost "homestyle cooking" from Skillet and Country Pride over the fast food that most of the loves, pilots, and flying j's have. Not to mention ta's/petros have alot of other fun amenities such as the drivers lounge, gym, cb shops, chrome shops, pool tables, knife shops, etc. and the petros especially have differently designed buildings instead of all looking exactly the same. But hey by all means, if people don't want to go there. Then don't! More parking for those of us that do like TA/Petro! :D

    Also who needs 2 showers a day? Besides the fact you get two ultra credits that can be used for 2 showers a day if needed. Not sure where some people have gotten their information.

    I should also probably note that I'm just my husband's ride along. I don't drive at the moment, maybe someday. So all those points and ultra credits are from him.
     
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  7. Brandt

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    I had 2 free showers yesterday at Love's and only got 40 gallons. Then I parked for free at TA. I top off the tanks at Love's. Might as well get another shower, since it was later in the day. Loves give you 2 showers a day

    I still think is amazing how TA wanted more people to us them I guess but changed their driver rewards to make it more difficult. I do what they don't want now. Fuel at Love's and park for free at TA if I have to.

    I'm saving money because I don't pay for much parking anymore at TA/Petro. Loves has free parking, I used paid parking more in the past because if I fueled at TA/Petro at end of the day. You don't have any option if the free parking is full. Loves I fuel more in afternoon get my shower. Then I can park at anyplace that has FREE parking available. Just like I did yesterday and parking for free now at TA instead of fueling and parking at TA
     
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  8. starmac

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    Geesh, I would rather pay for a shower than just buy 60 gallons at a time. It sounds like everything has changed since I quit running the lower 48, I never heard of reserved parking, and paid parking was justinlimited places, places I usually didn't want to be to start with. I didn't deal with loves much, or pilots much because they didn't see fit to have a restaurant. I was never a TA fan, but did like petros, before they became one, I liked the rip Griffins before they became TA's too.
    I would think any of them giving a shower for a 60 gallon purchase, is actually losing money on the shower itself, basically just a sales pitch hoping drivers spend more money on something.
     
  9. Brandt

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    Remember the Rip Griffin by San Antonio, they had guy driving a big limo around the parking to give drives ride to truck stop. Now it's the TA
     
  10. starmac

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    I was in that Rip not long after the city had outlawed smoking. It was late at night and I had ordered but hadn't recieved my food yet. I ask the waitress for an ash tray and she told me it was against the law to smoke. I told her too cancel my order, the town didn't need any business from me. She dumped out the bowl that held the creamers and told me to use it. lol
    I ask what the chances of getting busted was, and she said none, this is where the police comes to smoke and drink coffee. lol
     
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  11. HiLoSapien

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    First, it's not a free shower. It's a shower paid for in fuel purchased. Second, the money I spend on 60 gallons of fuel doesn't drop off their ledger in 7 days so why should the shower?
     
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