Where are some of your favorite Truck stops and why?

Gotta be Star truck palza out in Bowie, TX. Nice restaurant and lots of parking for its size. Typically decent fuel prices and they accept most fuel cards. Stopped there once on my way down to DFW, everytime I was heading south on 287, from then on in, Star was/is a must stop. Brisket and okra that's pretty ###### good for a truck stop.

Always liked the flying hook in Effingham, IL. Always managed to find parking there and for a TS- it's pretty quiet.

Bosselemans in Grand Island is another favorite, spent a lot of time sitting bobtailed waiting on meat loads there.

The northern Marathon in Laredo (very small TS, like 10 parking spots) will always hold a special place with me. It's in a terrible neighborhood, and almost no one speaks english (very well, atleast.)
I stopped here after I delivered my first ever load, solo. Had to sit here for three days trying to get a back-haul up north. Food is good, roasted half chickens and typical Mexican fare. Very memorable to me- sitting in the back of a POS '09 Cascadia, happy/nervous/excited, watching Netflix on my iPad with almost literally nothing in the truck. Bed didn't even have sheets on it yet.
The load right after that, I got my dolly legs hung up on the ground in Evergreen, AL in a residential neighborhood after a wrong turn and had to have a wrecker pull me off.

Ah good times

He was referring to the dried on, bodily fluids, plastered on the walls.

 

Rookies, they think they know everything when they don't know ####.

 

amen, brother sometimes I feel like a dinosaur.

 

and that is because................you have a mirror perhaps

if 'olhand remembers cuzzin ritchies in greeland nh
maybe he remebers the one in Amesbury mass down the road
terrible place but they never checked my ID back in '72
now I am too old to remember the name

 

Son I could teach you a thing or two about bodily fluids, if you keep talkin` like that

 

Now we've got a 2 year rookie that's an internet rambo. Oh boy.

 

Didn't know Rambo had anything to do with prison-style sodomy.

You can't just take a joke, you've gotta make it personal at every turn. You're the worst kind of super trucker.

 

stayed at the Mclure truckstop at exit 34 on I74 in Indiana last night. super clean mcdonalds, subway, and cracker barrel all within walking distance. no joke there bathrooms were cleaner than the ones at my house

 

That would be nice---since most(latest owners painted over some)of the walls are a veritable who's who--of trucking history--I'd love to know what happened to the old display case--&corkboards--Must have been 100 or so Ertl trucks in that case--&even more uniform patches on the boards....

 

Can't remember the name but, it was on old US 522 just after you crossed the river in to W. Virginia before you get to Berkely Springs. Old diner with tons of old trucking company signs on the walls.

Hate hearing about Louises, loved the Russian waitresses!!!