What Thing(s) Improved Your Trucking Experiences

YES!!! While I am generally the creative type who will find ways around it, I feel truckers are sort of held hostage by truck stops. Other than highway rest stops and open dirt in many of the western states, the options for parking are generally not good. It is easy to get into trouble looking for creative parking in an unknown area. This funnels us into truck stops which are mostly designed for giant vehicle/trailer combos.

And as such, most take severe advantage with various prices and charges. Just the ATMs alone are horrible. At best you might pay $4.45 for a $300 withdrawal. But, I’ve seen one machine that charged 8% and another that charged $4.45 for a measly max of $20!!! I’m sure I don’t need to provide more examples because y’all are the choir; but, I consider it terrible treatment of people providing such an important service. Obviously, this country would face an immediate disaster without our services. Yet, hardly anyone but the truck stops who want to rip us off want to support us. They all want their food, vehicles, consumer crap, etcetera; but, they don’t want to support the people who risk their lives daily to make it happen!!!!!!!

 

Much of the food supply is different. And, so are attitudes about eating. I’m just old enough to remember when fast food restaurants were in the minority, soda wasn’t a whole aisle in the grocery, chips weren’t even half an aisle, energy drinks as such didn’t exist, food was less engineered…

Plus, it wasn’t too many decades ago when many people taught their children to eat 3x a day and that snacking in between was not good. People often ate at a table, often together, and the only thing beside eating might be conversation about the day, etc.

Now, people eat any time of the day and night, sometimes all day, sometimes mindlessly while performing many other activities, mostly alone, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Portion sizes at restaurants are often anywhere from 2-5x what they were in the past. Many people used to drink water too instead of high calorie drinks. The way people eat and drink now is almost incomparable to what was most common 50 years ago +/-.

 

Casey’s does have surprisingly good pizza for a fuel station/convenience store!

 

So, where did you go after trucking?