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Truck Stops

Love’s surpasses 400 locations, offering drivers prizes to celebrate

Love’s has now opened 37 new locations this year with 2,200 truck parking spaces in 15 states, and says it is on track to open 50 stores by the end of the year.

November 10, 2016

Business

Navigating the intricate levels of trucking BS

There are several distinct levels. “All can be somewhat entertaining, but the gold standard club membership is running with (or behind) a pack of crusty old Nebraska livestock haulers, swapping CB stories in the middle of the night.”

October 19, 2016

Parking

Trucker Path to now market independent truck stops in app

According to Trucker Path, more than 80 percent of the truck stops in the app are independently-owned, yet receive 75 percent fewer interactions than the larger truck stops.

October 12, 2016

Channel 19

Professionals behaving unprofessionally: Letter from a truck stop maintenance man

The crux of Charles Brady’s argument is that there’s a strong current of unprofessional selfishness rearing its head in a lack of basic courtesy on offer from drivers at his truck stop. He pleas to the true professionals for help.

October 8, 2016

Channel 19

Making the ‘Road Hunter’ app

Created by Mikhail Dzarasov, Road Hunter’s a route-planner at heart, with map views that piggyback on Google’s map-, street- and satellite-view capabilities to deliver 100,000-foot and on-the-ground intelligence.

August 2, 2016

Truck Stops

Love’s opens two new Kansas locations

Love’s Travel Stops has announced the opening of two new locations in Kansas this week – Belleville and Liberal.

July 5, 2016

Voices

‘Be the change you want to see’

From the cab of Clifford “Dream Walker” Petersen on the state of the industry. Drivers have strength in numbers, and individual actions will go a long way toward improving conditions for owner-operators.

May 24, 2016

Business

Pikachu, I choose you!

Getting decent sleep on the road sometimes depends on where you’re parked … And how close you happen to be to the Pikachu-colored flattop Freightliner when it “ripples” the new Volvo’s bumper.

May 11, 2016

Business

Entering the red zone

“I learned a long time ago that shaming disgusting people has no effect whatsoever – they’re disgusting people, and no amount of shaming will make them anything other than disgusting people.”

April 18, 2016

Channel 19

#TruckThat! social media campaign leading into membership group for drivers

Via mobile app slated to relase in June, the group, One20, will offer deep discounts at stops on bedrock goods and services, from showers, dinner and parking to tires.

April 16, 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

Parking: To pay or not to pay, that is the question

“We, as a rule, don’t like paying for parking. That said, when we go to areas of parking hell, the stress level is reduced by about a million percent by knowing we have the option, even if we don’t like it.”

April 11, 2016