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Originally Posted by Double L
You got that right! Pilot and Flying J flourished cause they are oil companies. Even though 76 was an oil company the 76 truckstops were transformed into T/A's. Correct me if I'm wrong on that!
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OK Larry...consider yourself corrected!!!
Flying J and Pilot are simply marketing companies, as is TA/Petro.
You're not wrong about the old 76'ers converting into TA's.
Pilot was bought out BY an Oil Company two years ago. Marathon.
Fly J is the old "HUSKY" truckstop chain, but today the largest shareholder of Flying J stock, is an Oil company...ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips has been the banker for all the "new" offerings from the "J", as well as the expansion that "J" is currently undergoing.
I didn't get to experience many of the "Old" east coast truckstops, back in the 70's and 80's, but the majority of the truckstops throughout the "West" were far and away better, than what is offered now.
Jubitz in Portland is perhaps one of the better known "Stop's" from the 70/80's era....but I think 7Feathers, a "new" truckstop in southern Oregon on I-5 in Canyonville, is chasing after Jubitz'z style quite well. They provide an excellant shower area, and have very good food. If I remember correctly, in the 70's and 80's 7Feathers was a "Stinky Pete's" truckstop. The Indians buying it and rebuiding it wasn't a bad thing.
Little America, in Wyoming, is better today than it was in the 70's & 80's, and it was a "premier" truckstop back then.