Just had a question as to the availability of good showers when OTR. Once I start driving, my wife will probably ride along alot of the time. Are showers on the road easy to find or what do you normally do?

 

Darn near every truckstop has showers. As far as "good" showers, you are better off getting a hotel room.

 

im new out on the road, but i have found the showers to be not to bad cleanliness wise and not much of a wait.
generally i use pilots and petros t/s.
do have some shower shoes though.

 

ohio turnpike has good clean showers free at restareas. most larger truckstops have clean showers. my lady, who is picky, has no problem getting a shower everyday if she wants.

 

Yeah that's both affordable and practical :roll: :roll:

Just stick to the major chain truck stops, Pilot, flying hook and Petro. Dont forget your flip-flops.

 

Not to be contrarian, but many small independents have great services and you are treated quite well.

Ranch Hand, Montpelier ID
Scoggens, Dubois ID
Pioneer Village, Halsey OR. (BTW You get a hotel room for 10 bucks to shower in here!)

AM Best has some really good truck stops like I90 stop in Mitchell SD and Garden of Eden in Eden ID. My point being is that independents sometimes offer better and more services than the big guys. I support mom and pop shops because that is all they have to offer.

Personally I hate Pilot and especially hate Loves. The company I work for just signed a long term fuel contract so I will be using these franchises but ......

I know of no Pilot with adequate room to wait for a shower. You sort of find room to hang out in the fast food restaurant or the store until your number is called. If you are called and do not get to the desk promptly (like 2 minutes) .. you are put back into line. I have found a trend of a number of under-trained help trying to manage complicated computer systems that are constantly are broken. Parking sucks at many Pilots with inadequate number of spaces and room to get into those spaces. Every horror story I have experienced started with "There I was at a Pilot" (OK Loves too ..)

Now from a previous life I have 1M (1,000,000) Hilton Points so I can and do occasionally rent a Hampton Inn room when I can to shower. How affordable and practical is this!?!

 

Affordable? Yes, it can be. The last hotel I stayed in (a Howard Johnson's), cost me $28 a night with my Check Inn card. Well worth the money to get out of the truck for a few days.

Practical? Why not? Many major hotel chains have truck parking.

I suppose for the Crete driver, though you are too busy running your butt off for a pittance, that you have no time for hotels, and can't afford it anyway. :lol:

 

Wife and i stopped at a T/A in Ohio to fuel and take showers my shower was clean and descent for a T/S however the wife's shower was a different story she went in got ready to hop in stopped and saw human feces all over the stall.

Wife went to fuel desk and told the woman about it, woman all but called her a liar she told her that shower had just been cleaned and was good to use well wife invited her to go look for herself and she did attendant about fell over couldn't believe it, wife asked her would she like to take a shower in there well no.So we left and wife took one on the Ohio T/P

 

8) ok i guess that anyplace open to the public is bound to have jerks use it. rule of thumb, if place is run down and trash is everywhere, lot lizards crawling in and out of trucks, whell don't drink the water. other hand, if facilities seem well kept, service is friendly, and everything seems well stocked and clean well take your chances that a jerk didn't use it before you. but then that shirt you tried on at walmart, how do you know that a chanker infested syphletic ridden leper didn't try it on before you? i don't live a real safe life and won't die safely' i live well and hope to die well!

 

That's why I shop at K-Mart. :lol: