The Triple T is way past it's prime. The real estate it sits on is way too valuable for a truckstop these days. I am betting the owners are just marking time until they sell it and level the joint.
It is sad what the old school real truck stops are coming to. That use to be one place i use to stop on purpose, not due to the parking lot (could lose a truck in potholes), but restaurant, and convenience store had a cool store with chrome, and accessories. Just like the Deming Truck Terminal in Deming New Mexico went by the wayside. As to the pay for parking at any truck stop. Unless it has security personnel, gated and lighted parking. I would not pay at any truck stop. Pilot, and Loves seem to be building new stops all over, and at a fast rate. Small, congested, fast food only, little places with no real conveniences (decent showers bigger than an outhouse, real T.V rooms, small laundry facilities with two washers/dryers, and so forth. Seems like a monopoly to me of Pilot/Loves .
Boondocks was built in 1973 when interstate 35 didn't exist between the Minnesota line and Williams Ia . The highway that runs east and west by the truck stops at Williams is old us 20 . Boondocks was a nice place many years ago along with the motel there but it's been in decline for a long long time . The pilot on the west side sits on what was once trumps travel center and had a great restaurant and c store but was also old and outdated . I can't see the boondocks New owners doing much with the place short of bulldozeing it and theyl probably have to dig halfway to he'll to hit clean dirt .
I have not been out there in a few years TTT. I enjoyed the old El Paso Truck stop many, many years ago before it became a Flyin hook. Anyone ever notice the old truck stops that had chrome shops, chrome accessories, a wide variety of store items for truckers, but the franchised travel plazas are so cookie cutter (exactly the same) Pilot/Loves/ T/A, and so forth with the exception of a few Petros.?
In the real old days,the two big truckstops in El Paso,was the 76 out east of town and The El Paso Truck Terminal,was a Conoco downtown. Back in the days when it was safe to go across the border for the tourist thing,the 60's 70's,you would park at the Conoco,and there was Mexican cab service that would shuttle you over to Juarez,and bring you back. Used to be about twenty bucks a carload round trip,which you would split up with how many guys went. It would drop you off at a prearranged bar,the cabbie gave you a business card with a map on it,so you knew where to be to get your ride back home. I still have the card in my wallet. I've showed it to so many people over the years,most of it's worn off,but I can still read this much. GINNYS BAR The Number One Stop For World Travelers And Truck Drivers We Want You To Feel At Home When You Visit Us Personally Attended By Owner (picture of scantily clad girl) That's all can I still read,Juarez map is on the back of the card. These were the really fun days of trucking,not going to post about all the crazy things that went on there,use your imagination,lol.
