It's the Loves.

You can give / use a lot of excuses for why it happens - it boils down to drivers not giving a rats ass about their fellow drivers.

 

i cannot stand it when i'm about to go into an idle-aire spot, only to find some jackass has his/her trailer in the lane i wanna get into. once there was a gordon driver at the t/a east in ontario, ca that had done it. it was a good spot, too. nothing behind to hit. i hate it when people do that shit, and then do nothing to correct the situation. ones who do that deserve to have their tires slashed, and fuel pissed in.

 

"Is pulling in so hard?"

I find pulling out is harder.

 

Very true! I've seen drivers fly thru the parking lot with drivers backing out. They just blow their horn and keep on driving thru...hoping the driver backing up stops, I guess! It has happened to me backing out slowly so I dont hit anything.

 

not to mention making sure you do the latter 'on time', or end up 'serving time'? yeah??

oh...kinda funny how a long time ago i said 'backing is the most dangerous time'...and i was told i was 'wrong'. but someone just said "backing is dangerous than pulling straight out"....hmmm....

 

That is my point exactly.

If your crooked in your own lane, fine. But when your trailer is in mine, or a empty one and you just leave that way. It makes me just shake my head as to how anyone can be so oblivious to what they do and how it affect others.

 

Texas....i'd go a step farther and say some KNOW what they're doing, and just dont CARE how it effects others. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to parking and docking a trailer. I want it as flush as i can get it. Yeah, i might look a bit foolish rolling up and back...but i want to be perfectly square to the dock and square in my parking spot. being NEW, i still cannot pull into a 45* parking spot at a rest area, and when i come to a stop, be paralell in my spot. i will be in my spot (before anybody says anything to me), just not perfectly straight.

Some just dont consider other drivers when picking their spot. If i am going to park in front of someone along a curb (that being the only spot left in a truck stop) i will atleaste get out and make sure the guy behind me has the room to pull out and around without having to knock on my sleeper to get my ass to move.

 

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I guess it's nobody's fault, but the thing that is really annoying, are those lots that have no marked lines. its hard to judge exactly where to park for the first few trucks in and when you pull in late at night, theres tons of holes, but they're all barely too narrow to fit in

i wish i could remember where the most outrageous example is, on I-5 central cali a ways south of stockton I think. Its a mom and pop truckstop, pretty dirty inside. Theres a Love's (edit: i think its a pilot actually) directly across the freeway. holes everywhere in the gravel and its just a gongshow, everyone just shuts down anywhere you can find level ground. looks ridiculous once it's full :P

 

The Mom and Pop Truckstop must be the one in Westley.