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Channel 19
As with most superlatives, ‘best’ is a relative term when it comes to truck stops
Readers responded in numbers to the “Best truck stop ever?” question in last week’s Channel 19 post. Find here a bevy of recommendations for quality stops, great restaurants and more.
May 9, 2017
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Channel 19
Who gets your vote for best truck stop ever?
A new Truck World on I-76 in North Jackson, Ohio, Trucker Path’s top 10 truck stops by user rating (including 8 independents) and a question: What’s your favorite truck stop out there? Who’s doing it right?
May 2, 2017
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Truck Stops
Love’s adds new stores in Georgia, Ohio
The new stores – in Macon, Ga., and Upper Sandusky, Ohio – add more than 170 combined truck parking spaces to the Love’s network.
April 28, 2017
Love’s Travel Stops has opened new locations in Georgia and Ohio.
Voices
POLL: Do you miss the ‘mom-and-pop’ independent truck stop?
What’s your view of the growing reach of the large national truck stop chains — an owner-operator offered this question up for Overdrive readers while pondering the days of full-service, family-style dining and other characteristics of the mom-and-pop truck stops of the days of yore.
April 17, 2017
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Business
Legislation introduced to allow commercial services at public rest areas
Congressman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) introduced a bill Thursday that would allow interstate rest areas to add commercial services such as convenience stores and restaurants.
April 6, 2017
Legislation has been introduced that, if passed, would allow states to commercialize rest areas by adding convenience stores and restaurants.
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new locations in Illinois, Utah
The Utah location, at exit 363 on I-15 in Brigham City, offers truckers 94 truck parking spaces, and the Illinois store, located in Greenup along I-70 at exit 119, offers 92 truck parking spaces.
February 23, 2017
Love’s Travel Stops opened new locations in Greenup, Ill. (pictured), and Brigham City, Utah.
Channel 19
Rest-area commercialization and parking preservation: A view from the truck stops
What happened to the sales figures for a downstream business when the I-95 state-run Delaware House service plaza closed for restoration several years back. NATSO CEO Lisa Mullings illustrates some of the issues around potentially expanded commercial services at rest areas.
February 16, 2017
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Truck Stops
Love’s opens new store in Knoxville, Ill.
The new store offers 94 truck parking spaces, Subway and Chester’s Chicken restaurants, seven showers, a Love’s Truck Tire Care Center and more.
February 16, 2017
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Love’s opens new location in Chanute, Kan.
The new location offers drivers an Arby’s restaurant, 38 truck parking spaces, Cat scales and more.
February 10, 2017
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Overdrive Radio
If it means more parking options, readers say, rest-area commercialization A-OK
In this mailbag podcast and other commentary, readers believed in large part that NATSO’s concern over recent FHWA ideas for rest-area commercialization was misplaced, particularly if services allowed at state-facilitated rest areas are limited to an extent they aren’t at truck stops.
January 31, 2017
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Truck Stops
Love’s opens new Nebraska, Texas locations
The new stores, located in Syracuse, Neb., and Angleton, Texas, offer a combined 151 truck parking spaces.
January 13, 2017
Truck Stops
Love’s opens fifth Wisconsin location
The new store is located along I-39/90 at exit 115 and features 73 truck parking spaces.
December 1, 2016
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