11 Facts About Truck stops

Smaller truck stops might consist of only a parking area, a fueling station, and perhaps a diner restaurant.

Larger truck stops tend to have full-service maintenance facilities for heavy trucks, as well as vehicle wash services that can handle anything from passenger vehicles to large trucks.

Retail stores in large truck stops offer a large selection of 12-volt DC products, such as coffee makers, combo television units, toaster ovens, and frying pans primarily targeted towards truck drivers, who often spend extended periods of time on the road.

Many truck stops used to have load board monitors for truck drivers to find real time information on loads, jobs, weather and news.

However, DAT Solutions, the largest provider of load boards, removed its monitors from thousands of truck stops and moved all its services online and to its load board mobile apps.

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Approximately two thirds of truck stops are independently owned with the remainder being owned and run by 'Big Oil' brands such as Caltex, BP and Shell.

Truck stops stop originated in the United States in the 1940s as a reliable source of diesel fuel not commonly available at filling stations.

In Louisiana, truck stops that meet certain criteria are allowed to have on-site casinos that can operate up to 50 video poker gaming devices.

However, most truck stops reflect the social environment of their local area; consequently, one occasionally finds seedy truck stops in seedy areas.

Economics of truck stops have driven most of the small, post-war operations out of business and they have been replaced with large corporate chains or franchises.

Truck stops drivers are a captive market, because the trucks' size and local regulations place severe restrictions on where a truck driver can park.