What are the safest and most dangerous truckstops??

a few places you are better off to keep going

Elkton, MD T/A - guy holding up cashier with a gun last time I was inside there in Nov. 2011 (drugs, thieves, etc.)
Jessup, MD T/A (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Baltimore, MD T/A (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Mahwah, NJ Pilot (on NJ 17) (no showers, terrible parking lot)
West Memphis, AR ALL (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Memphis, TN ALL (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Atlanta, GA ALL (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Columbia, SC Pilot (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Denver, CO Pilot (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Houston, TX I-820 exit 24 Pilot (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Lake Station, IN T/A (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Gary, IN T/A and Pilot (hookers, drugs, thieves, etc.)
Council Bluffs, IA Pilot (people steal things and run across the border)

 

Hookers druggies and thieves, oh my!

 

Not every day we get a classic movie reference on TTR!

 

The petro at grants, nm, wouldn't say it was bad per say, but I was parked their during the day and got the knock at 4:30pm, then at around 9pm got the retarded dressed kid offering to sell me drugs (was confused at first and thought he was asking me for a smoke, it's what I normally get) and then coming out of the bathroom passed the hooker walking into the bathroom.

For a tiny little place more "interesting" characters then I've had in the past 6months

 

Aren't there idle laws against leaving truck running?

 

Wow - Does that place still suck ? I haven't been there in 12 years, and it was bad then !

 

So then there's the Red Carpet Inn and Truck Stop in Coxsackie, NY, just off the Thruway.

I don't think the showers have been cleaned since they were built. You've never seen a more brilliant display of mold colors !

Now this is going back to 2003 since I was last in, but I admit I was a regular from '93 to '03 .... why ? Well because I've got a strong stomach and thick flip flops ..... AND the place was always empty so there was no wait.

...... oh, and there is a bar in the Inn !

 

They tore the place down, and rebuilt it - reopened last year. Haven't been in there myself since it opened/

 

yeah, convienience wise, the place was always in a good spot, but I once lost an over-size steel beam for the GWB in one of their pot holes !!!

Seriously ! The beam was 9' wide, 5' high, and 77' long !!!!

When I left the parking lot, I called my escorts and my NJ Trooper escorts and told them I had to stop and re-torque my binders ! 4 of 33 were loose after that parking lot.

Thus enduth the rant -- time to go to work.

 

The only reason hookers are there is because drivers use them.






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