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Channel 19
With COVID, states allowed food trucks at public rest areas — have you seen one?
As cities and states added restrictions to reduce the impact of COVID-19, a few states put programs into place to have food trucks at rest areas. More here.
September 1, 2020
Channel 19
E-log transition, finale: ‘I will survive’ –Wes Memphis
A final report from Wes Memphis: “…like we survived the CDL, the TWIC Card, the emissions-compliant motors, the hazmat fingerprinting, the demise of the old-school truck stop, the erosion of civility, the death of Claude Akins ….”
June 11, 2016
Business
Sanctuary from Subway
“I’m officially asking for sanctuary from Subway. If I have to limp around with a fake hunchback and ring a bell to get some attention, so be it.”
April 13, 2016
Business
Health haps at MATS include walk, cook-in-the-truck summit
The two key driver-led health events — a 1.5-mile walk followed by the new Cooking in the Truck Summit — are in the offing Thursday evening, March 26, at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.
March 23, 2015
Business
Jeff Clark is a good egg
Dust-up over an eating contest at MATS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ prototypical driver yields insights: “I’m not a troublemaker, I’m a concerned citizen. Most of the time.”
March 15, 2015
Voices
The champions of the mom-and-pop truck stop
Driver Jeff Barker, with Debra Miller and Todd Ramey, is currently operating a Facebook group dedicated to sharing information on independent mom-and-pop truck stops.
January 28, 2015
Business
A picture is worth a thousand words
Wendy walks out into the truck stop parking lot to find a French teen model shoot ongoing around she and George’s truck: “Sometimes, it’s hard to have the prettiest truck in the lot.”
August 13, 2014
Channel 19
Reader to truck stops: Better optimize, expand parking space; And an eats tip in AL
“There’s nothing worse than after a long hard day’s driving to pull into a truck stop and find full spaces taken up with just a tractor or an RV.” –Rick Fine, Pueblo, Colo.
August 6, 2014
Truck Stops
Get your 10-cent coffee at Iowa 80 June 4
Iowa 80 Kitchen, the 300-seat full service restaurant in the Iowa 80 Truckstop will be celebrating 50 years in business on June 4, 2014. The restaurant is offering customers an opportunity to order from a special menu insert with 1964 prices.
June 3, 2014
Business
I love the smell of 70W in the morning…
Three creative solutions to long-haul storage problems in the new truck.
May 18, 2014
Life
Nearly 100 pounds down already, driver turns to social media to spur weight-loss goal
“If you have time for Facebook, you have time to work out.” — Such is the motto of driver Bettina Cameron’s “Losing it” Facebook page, where she shares tips, inspiration and her own story of weight loss through lifestyle change.
February 21, 2014
Life
Virginia gem: Smitty’s Better Burger
Best chili-cheese footlong around, says Wendy Parker in this review of Smitty’s Better Burger, a truly old-fashioned drive-in that hasn’t changed much since the Smith family opened it in 1956.
January 16, 2014
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