In addition, a ninth location is open- ing in Jonesboro in midspring or early summer that will add 77 truck parking spaces, according to Kealey Dorian, Love’s Travel Stops media specialist. In addition, the company is considering two additional locations that would add about 150 spaces. Modern truck stops are more than
just fueling locations and greasy din- ers. Pilot recently spent $50 million to remodel its showers nationwide and is spending $50 million on its restrooms. The Love’s West Memphis stop will offer fast-fill compressed natural gas services in the latter half of the sum- mer. The Petro stops have barber shops and chapels, while the TA Earle site has a fitness room and a walking trail. All four Travel Centers of America sites participate in the company’s Reserve-It! program, where drivers can reserve one of 72 spaces in Arkansas before they arrive, assuring themselves of a spot if they are willing to pay for it. The com- pany’s TruckSmart phone app updates
“YOU ALWAYS PUT SAFETY FIRST.” —JEFF LOGGINS, PRESIDENT OF LOGGINS LOGISTICS
the parking situations – current and projected – at the company’s locations every two hours. Truck stops can be crowded, and
there’s a lot of jockeying for posi- tion. Mike Brust, director of safety for Southern Refrigerated Transport, said that 36 percent of his company’s preventable and nonpreventable acci- dents in 2014 occurred in parking lots and truck stops. CalArk’s Hilton said, “They’re just doesn’t seem to be any rules at these truck stops… What hap- pens is people start pulling their rigs in, and there’s not necessarily lines where they’re supposed to pull into, and
then people want to try to get the most expeditious egress that they can so that, when they want to get out, they can get out.”
Drivers Robertson and Collado
said the key at a crowded truck stop is patience. They’ll sit in the fuel aisle or just wait for a spot to open, or they’ll circle as long as it takes. As long as they don’t travel more than two miles, it doesn’t register on their electronic logbook. Sometimes a fellow driver will flash his lights when he’s about to leave. Eventually, a spot will open.
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