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Channel 19
Willie’s Place to be Willie’s no more
Perhaps you’ve heard the news. On Jan. 31, the Willie’s Place truckstop in Carl’s Corner, Texas, will reportedly see it’s last day under current ownership. The stop filed for bankruptcy last year, and since then efforts to refinance a large loan with a New Jersey bank have failed, resulting in the impending transfer of ownership to […]
January 27, 2011
Willies Lead 1
Trucking History
A few truck stop owners made the route easier
Owner-operator John Stewart recalls some of the surprises he came up against at truck stops in California during the 1960s.
January 19, 2011
Channel 19
Tony ‘the truck stop tiger’ — calls from the driver community to uncage him
Nearly two years have passed since I first wrote about efforts by animal-rights activists (post from January 2009 originally on old Channel 19 blog home on Blogger.com) to require Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin to relocate the caged Bengal-Siberian tiger on the site of stop. It’s been there as an attraction to […]
December 6, 2010
Tigertruckstopkris
Business
Home on the Road
From back-road mom-and-pops to today’s Interstate franchises, truck stops have played a colorful, key role in the trucking lifestyle.
December 1, 2010
The November 1961 Reader’s Digest featured The Truck ’Otel, now razed but then 5 miles south of Fayetteville, N.C., on U.S. Highway 301. Overdrive described it as “one of the newer, better truck stops on the East Coast” in the Feb.-March 1962 issue. Services included new showers, a large lounge, a barber shop, warehouse storage, ice and scales.
Business
Scan service added at six stops
Six independent truck stops and travel centers are now offering Transflo Express scanning for truckers, Tampa, Fla.-based Pegasus Trans Tech announced. TRANSFLO Express is now available at more than 750 truck stops in the U.S. and Canada including Pilot, Flying J, and Love’s locations. The sites newly offering the scan service are  PlazaGo, near U.S. 50 in South […]
September 1, 2010
Business
Kenly 95 to join Petro Centers
The Kenly 95 Truckstop in Kenly, N.C., will become a Petro Stopping Center July 1, the facility’s general manager Ernie Brame announced. Near I-95 at Exit 106, the Kenly 95 Truckstop has been renamed the Kenly 95 Petro. The full-service stop will change the restaurant to an Iron Skillet and the truck service center to […]
June 16, 2010
Business
Groups lobby for biodiesel tax credit renewal
NATSO urged lawmakers to quickly reinstate the tax credit that expired Dec. 31.
April 12, 2010
Business
Truck Stop coupons available
The application for iPhones can be downloaded for free in the iTunes App Store.
April 12, 2010
Business
Highway Service Ventures under independent ownership
Highway Service Ventures, based in Ashland, Va., is now operating its four truck stops on the East Coast under the HSV Plazas brand. For the last 25 years, the truck stops were owned by a national chain. The four HSV Plazas are located at Elkton, Md. (Interstate 95 Exit 109 A), Ruther Glen, Va. (I-95 Exit […]
February 23, 2010
Business
NATSO urges extension of biodiesel tax credit
The National Association of Truck Stop Owners urged Senate leaders to extend the biodiesel tax credit before it expires Dec. 31.
December 17, 2009
Business
TA opens Calif. center
TravelCenter of America opened a 4,0000-square-foot store on I-5 at Laval Road in Wheeler Ridge, Calif.
December 14, 2009
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