Jim's Truck Plaza - Buffalo NY

you really have to try it in the summer---they fill up the 3ft deep potholes out back and use them as swimming pools
but its not too bad--i would guess its the best ruckstop in buffalo itself
but watch out for the pot holes in the back lot--if you have a real low truck your going to lose a bumper

 

There is also a mall real close by there

 

Anytime I filled in on our Rochester/Buffalo run, that is were I stayed. Told our regular driver about the place and now for the past two years, he's been staying there. He use to sleep in the lot at ADM, behind G/M.

The potholes? Try blackholes, LOL. I swear, the last time I was there(12/08) a truck got eaten by one of those holes.

 

Across the street if I remember right.

 

yes the gonhorea --oops galeria i meant , mall is just a hop and skip away right accross the street
you arnt really supposed to park in the kmart lot--in fact there is a nono line drawn on the pavement--but i had to a few times---nothing was ever said--its like a 5 acre lot that has only maybe 20 cars in it on a busy day

 

I have had to park in the K-mart lot. They don't mind after the store closes too much. Security will ask you to move in the morning if you are still there before the store opens. All in all they were pretty nice about the whole thing.

 

I had a delivery in Buffalo about 5 years ago and found that truck stop by the K-mart. It was also a great experience. I walked over to the K-mart and shopped around then ate in the restaurant at the truck stop. Overall good experience! It also snowed all night long. I never made it back to that truck stop but would definitely stop by if I were in Buffalo.

 

Yeah, I've always liked Jim's...heck I thought everybody knew about it! And that truck in the pothole? That was mine...only place I could park!


K-Mart...depends on who's working security that night. Some nights I've been tossed right out, other nights I've been left alone until it's time to go to work again....and the old K-Mart manager (from about two years ago) was a real azzhat to drivers...

 

Just be careful if you're parking on the row facing the mall, or I think it is actually directly facing an auto parts store. It is the row on the far side of the lot up towards and facing the street. It is very tight getting into those spots.

Usually whenever I have been there, there has been a couple of feet of snow on the ground also. Decent place, I was not wild about the restaurant though it is okay. I went in the last time I was there and wanted to buy two cooked hamburger patties without the bread or anything else and they said they would have to charge me for the whole hamburger. I guess that is not unusual, but for some reason the way they handled it or something pissed me off.