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Hard to guess on that one TN. I never pegged either of them for a crime hot spot. Of course, neither of them is a well paved, well lit paradise either.

Has anyone had the pleasure of actually finding the toilets working at either of the dumps posing as truck stops in San Jon, NM? :cry:

That TA outside of Nashville. I've never had so many lot lizards wake me up banging on my door. Also saw a truck back right into an expensive bmw hanging off the back of another truck... OUCH!

The Gary IN T/A has to be the worst truck stop I ever had the displeasure of spending the night at. Aside from getting hustled constantly by guys hawking jewelry and "other things", I watched two pimps duke it out in the parking lot.

To give you some perspective on Gary, a member of another forum I visit once worked for a cable provider in Indiana. His crew was assigned to disable illegal cable hookups in the Gary area. They had to wait for Indiana State Police escorts because the residents WOULD, not COULD get violent if they saw you disconnecting their illegal hookups.

The old 76 on top of Mont Eagle... ugh!!! I think it was a 76, I wasn't there for more than a few minutes! LOL I walked in the door and the aroma was basically a cross between a wino's pants and an dry urinal full of cigarette butts... :dung:

You all mention all the time about "keeping the left door closed." I thought you were saying that to "keep the wheels rollin." But after reading these posts, "Keep the left door closed" has a whole new meaning for me. Maybe we need to bring back the "shotgun" job they had on the old stage coaches.

The Bingo ts in Ontario, Ca. What a Sh#* hole. :lol:

Re: I-55 Truckstop

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Originally Posted by belpre122

How about the I-55 truckstop in Bolingbrook, IL. While I was parked overnight there, a dry van about 3 spaces down from me was completely emptied out. Not to be outdone, the thiefs also went so far as to remove the doors! All of this for ONLY $10.00 parking fee. And the attendant didn't even look ashamed when taking my money. :D

Are you talking about Joliet? Same deal, paid 10 bucks to park and it was slammed full, grabbed one of the last places, sad thing was they were still allowing trucks in, and they had to go back out empty handed.
The inside looked as bad as the outside, and it was lit at all.

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Originally Posted by Uturn2001

Walt Whitman's in Philly. Man that place is a scary dump.

Thank God they closed that dump.

T/A Jessup, MD. One time only and that was enough for me. Now that they fenced it in and added security it might be better sine the lizards all walk around the back roads now hitting up the drivers parked on the street.

Finally shut down Whitmans huh. About time.

And yeah I agree. Jessup is a disaster too. I hate that place.

Here is a little story for you about Jessup.

Several years ago I had my son on the truck with me for a few weeks over the summer. (He was around 10 at the time). We picked up a load a few miles up the road from Jessup and by the time I got loaded I was almost out of hours and it was pushing 5 pm so we stopped there for the night.

We had been living off of truck food for a few days and a hot meal sounded nice, but when we got inside we seen the waitresses had closed down all but one small section like it was 2 am.

My son took one look at the situation, the full 6 tables that were not closed, and in a loud, matter of fact voice says "Don't these fools know it is supper time and there are hungry truckers out here."

It did nothing for getting the sections open, but it did a lot to send a chuckle through the crowd and to send most of the TA employees into hiding. :lol: :lol: :lol: