worst truckstop ever

probably thinking of the Walt Whitman truckstop, they closed that down 2 years ago or sometime...but yes it was a hole.

 

well i was watchin the history channel last night and the 6000 truck stops hmmmm you would think you would find a better one but then again nothing stays the same ,it could great when you stoped on your way out and horrible comeing back buy it and to think it all falles down to management????????? if one cares about what they do and give the effort to make it nice and decent for the truckers then it will show but two things are for sure ,lot lizzards will migrate everywher and more so with economy now adays and as far as the truck stop it self it just comes down to plain old good business,you offer a decent product and a good price and the truckes will come to you!!!! laptops and cbs will bring in the customer and appearence

 

Are you talking about the ol' Roadrunner Truckstop that was downtown? It's been gone for years now but the memories continue. LOL..

 

Interesting to see how the worst truck stops a couple years ago don't exist anymore. Survival of the fittest and good ol' competition work every time. Give us a safe place to sleep, good food, the supplies we need, and keep it clean. If they don't, they don't last.

 

No the list of swill holes is endless. One closes and a new dump rises from the ashes.

 

That sounds like most of them in NW Indiana. If it wasn't a major chain where he was assaulted then it was probably Dunes Truck Stop which is just north of the TA and Flying J.

 

I agree. I went in their once and I think you pretty much summed it up. It's only redeeming quality that it's one of those places you can pull into anytime and get a nice secluded parking spot. On the inside, that place is filthy !

 

pilot in denver, pilot in nashville, nashville worse, esp in the back along the fence that has a make shift step over the fence, got out did my post trip, musta been 300 broken seals back there, got back in truck moved to a better spot up front that prolly took me 20 mins to get in without taking out a pump or a fender

 

Worst truck stop I've ever been in, as far as just cleanliness (or lack thereof) has to be the TA in Jessup, MD. With all the warehouse traffic around there, trucks parking on the roads, having to pay to park in the lot, and the condition of the restaurant/hotel/shop they have there... bleh, I'd rather crawl up a sewer pipe and spend my 10 there.

As far as being scary, the Pilot in Gary, IN had some of the craziest, most felonious-looking people I've ever seen outside of a prison walking around in it. Oh, and the Pilot on the south side of the loop in Atlanta... but good luck getting in there.

Myself, I'm always partial to Petros. Usually have very decent parking, the restaurants have pretty good food at decent prices and are decently clean, and the showers are pretty good as well.

 

on a friday night, rolling into saturday, i got lost in gary, indiana. i eventually found myself even more frightened in east chicago. all of the hood rats could tell i was lost. i didn't stop the truck for anything. when i did, it was because a cop had pulled somebody over. i slammed the brakes, made all kinds of smoke, and ran over to the cop and explained my situation. after he finished writing the ticket up on the person he stopped, he had me follow him to the westbound i-90 toll road. that's a night i'll never forget.

as for the worst, yeah, the t/a in jessup takes the rotten tomato cake. teh biggest rip-off truck stop is the shell in sumner, wa. it costs more for 12hrs of parking than it does at either of the t/a's in ontario, california.