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News roundup, Oct. 24: New Love’s in Montana, Alabama; I-29 closure in southwest Iowa; TruckPro distributor bought by equity firm

Love’s opened new travel stops in Missoula, Montana, and Eutaw, Alabama. Iowa DOT says I-29 northbound is closed between exit 55 (North 25th Street) and Iowa Highway 192, which is about a 1-mile stretch. Plantinum Equity acquires TruckPro independent distributor.

October 24, 2019

Channel 19

Remembering Bob Walser of Bill’s Truck Stop, Linwood, N.C.

Robert Eugene “Bob” Walser Sr., 86, of Linwood, N.C., well-known for his generosity to drivers, passed Saturday. Walser owned and operated Bill’s Truck Stop at I-85 exit 86, for 60 years. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, at Churchland Baptist Church in Linwood.

October 14, 2019

Overdrive Extra

‘I like aggravating truck drivers’: Maxie Satterfield of Terrell, Texas

“Maxie Satterfield of Terrell, Texas has been working a truck stop counter for most of the years since 1948,” Long Haul Paul notes to begin this, his latest in the Faces of the Road series. “I first met Maxie eight years ago, when I started driving for the outfit I’m with now….”

September 30, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Where this driver found his way: Truckers’ World, Shepherdsville, Ky.

The special story of the day long ago when Long Haul Paul got a little trust and faith back via a chance encounter with a truck-stop chaplain and his congregants. “So I gave my heart to Jesus that night; and I gave my heart to Hank Williams; and I gave my heart to Ralph and Carter Stanley.” …

August 19, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Longtime TA Nashville employees recount historic 2010 flood, support and recovery

Listen: Getting close to the 10th anniversary of the historic flooding of Nashville in 2010, employees at the downtown TA who were there when it happened recount the rising waters, their relationships with longtime driver customers, and the recovery process in this podcast. Also: Why are some TA Petro stops moving away from traditional diners? HOS has something to do with it …

July 30, 2019

Voices

POLL: Should truck stops impose time limits on shower use?

Following the lead of a question one operator asked recently in the Overdrive’s Trucking Pro Facebook group, this question explores current practices around shower use time limits and whether imposing them is a necessary supplement to basic etiquette. ….

July 19, 2019

Channel 19

Shout to a stop: Crater Lake Junction in Chiloquin, Ore.

“Back at it for a Monday and thankful for the kindness of strangers at the Crater Lake Junction Travel Center in rural Chiloquin, Oregon. If you run U.S. 97 north-south through Oregon and need a stop in the vicinity, make it here. And tell ’em thanks again for me.” Here’s why.

July 1, 2019

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new locations in Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania

The new Michigan store is located in Bridgeport off of I-75 at exit 144 and offers 87 truck parking spaces. In Illinois, the new Love’s is in Hampshire near I-90 and U.S. 20 and offers 177 truck parking spaces. The new Pennsylvania store is in Slippery Rock off of I-79 at exit 105 and offers 48 truck parking spaces.

June 24, 2019

Channel 19

Market-making: ‘Mustang’ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking

Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: “For this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and I’ll leave right now for you.”

May 29, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Learning from the mistakes of others, with owner-op Bill Ater from last week’s early-Spring blizzard

In this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast we drop into the scene at The Junction truck stop in Blunt, S.D., round about mid-week last week just ahead of the blizzard. Owner-operator Ater and a fellow hauler on a run from Midland, Texas, up to the Williston, N.D., oil fields, ended up spending three nights there, leaving with a new appreciation for the place and its generous manager.

April 19, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Lights-out at MATS, and: You’re the parking expert ‘where you live and where you truck to’

Former owner-op Scott Grenerth introduces parking-info/reservation site RigRest.com, talks ongoing work with National Coalition on Truck Parking, in this episode of Overdrive Radio; Also: The moment the lights went at MATS just ahead of Secretary Chao’s speech on hours reform, captured for eternity …

April 5, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Recalling Mass 10 Truck Stop – ‘The Dump’ – and its owner, who treated truckers like royalty

The Mass 10 Truck Stop and its bighearted owner Gene Murphy were known by many truckers of the ‘60s and ‘70s who ran in New England.

April 1, 2019