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Truck Stops

Love’s stop in Choctaw, Okla., reopens after 2010 tornado

At I-40’s Exit 166, the new site offers an 11,000-square-foot facility, significantly larger than the previous location.

May 27, 2014

Channel 19

Truck stop operator’s new novel set during the ‘Great War’

Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s “The Meaning of Names” interrogates the reality German-American communities in the U.S. were confronted with following the outbreak of World War I.

May 27, 2014

Business

Privacy is a matter of opinion

“Sometimes, life on the road is hard.” What happens when a little kid squeezes under your bathroom-stall door and just, well, hangs out…

May 23, 2014

Channel 19

More trucking tunes — and a cheeseburger

Catch Bill Weaver’s “Ode to a Peterbilt” in video, likewise the ‘Monkey Gouger’ cheeseburger, named for owner-operator Jimmy Ardis, at the Manning, S.C., TA location.

May 13, 2014

Business

A dollar or a black eye in Von Ormy, Texas

On winning — and getting even…

May 4, 2014

Business

Pilot Flying J adds six new stops

Pilot Flying J added six additional locations across the country in the first quarter of the year.  The six locations include: ·      Bainsville, ON – 6115 4th Line Rd, Hwy 401, exit 825. Five diesel lanes. ·      Cardinal, ON – 2085 Shanly Rd, Hwy 401, exit 730. 10 diesel lanes. ·      Kansas City, KS – […]

April 24, 2014

Business

Shower me with a little love

…and a skyhook for good measure.

April 6, 2014

Overdrive Radio

Jason’s Law: Five years after the passing of its namesake

In conversation with Overdrive’s Wendy Parker, Hope Rivenburg, marking the fifth anniversary of the death of her husband, for whom the Jason’s Law truck parking legislation is named, stresses the need for drivers to continue to press their legislators on areas where truck parking is sorely lacking and/or unsafe.

March 18, 2014

Parking

Say it, don’t spray it

Confrontation in a truck stop parking lot yields this from George: “You can’t just scream at people, babe. I don’t like it either, but you never know when you’re going to run up on crazy.”

March 9, 2014

Channel 19

‘Dirt for sale’ — and more from Uncle Pete’s in Lebanon, Tenn.

Quick stop-over at Uncle Pete’s in Lebanon, Tenn., on a recent weekend trip, yielded some news: Pete’s got a redesign in the works for the Guinness-worthy coffee-cup collection housed in the restaurant.

March 8, 2014

Business

Fun at Pedro’s place in S.C.

If you’ve seen the signs for Pedro’s South of the Border and haven’t stopped, you should, at least once. If you’re with someone cool who doesn’t mind taking stupid pictures with fiberglass animals, it’s an added bonus.

February 14, 2014

Parking

Circle, circle, dot dot dot….

In which Wendy proposes a research project, and “someone’s sister-in-law needed a job, so they created the ‘Fund for Dumb Stuff’… Progress, people, progress.”

January 8, 2014