Ok, I know I have only been out here about 4 months but I have YET to see any"thing" I would have considered a lot lizard.
Yeah, I've had a couple of guys try to sell me stuff but I just lock my door, shake my head no, and they press on.
I think a lot of the lot lizard stories take place in the old time truck stops in the less desireable areas of the cities and towns that we pass through.
IN MY LIMITED EXPERIENCE...If you limit yourself to MOST Pilots, TAs, Flying J's, Love's, Wilco's, etc. "Travel Centers" (heck, they don't even call them truck stops anymore, they call them Travel Centers), alot of them are new, are right off the interstate highways/freeways, and so well lighted that your more likely to be awakened by the bright parking lot lights than any creepy crawlie that may be trolling a parking lot.
Frankly, I know that this stuff used to be rampant out here but now I think it's more of the old timers who keep this stuff perpetuated or they STILL go to those OLD greasy and sleasy truck stops because they like the life of a REAL trucker.
'Cause you know...we, Newbies are only "wheelholders" according to them.
Gosh, can you imagine what they would say about me if they knew my truck had a 10 speed automatic transmission? I am definitely a "wheelholder".
Things that go "bump" in the night!
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Trust me, 94hole, they ARE still out here...in droves in some places.
You will find, later in your career, with a bit more time behind you, that there are times when you just can't avoid having to park at one of those "OLD greasy spoons", and find that that is NOT where most of the LL business is at.
And if you don't believe these LL's a really out here, I DARE ya to park ANYWHERE at one of the TA's in Ontario, CA overnight!!JustSonny and Texas-Nana Thank this. -
Can I put a sign in the window,"Warning my dog eats lot lizards?," they don't have to know he is a fat lap dog that would rather lick them then eat them. LOL
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I've had someone knock on my truck while I was in the sleeper three times.
#1 at a service plaza on the NJ turnpike. A tow truck driver knocked on my truck and asked if I had called for a tow. When I said no, he pulled up to the next Swift truck and knocked on that one. Guess he didn't bother to get the truck number.
#2 at the Petro in North Little Rock, AR. I didn't answer it, figured it was a LL. I had seen a couple wandering around the lot earlier. They didn't knock twice.
#3 at the Flying J in Smithton, PA. A fellow driver wanted to tell me one of my fuel caps was unscrewed. Not sure what happened there. I know it was on when I did my post trip. My guess is that someone was trying to steal my fuel and was run off before they could get any and didn't put the cap back.
The vast majority of the time you will not be bothered when you are in the sleeper. Now, if you sit up front, you're fair game.JustSonny Thanks this. -
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I posted this before,but once this really cute chick in a miniskirt kept banging on my door,banging and banging. I finally got sick of it and let her out.
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