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RE: Speaking of T/Stops Petro Truck Stops Sold to Swifty and Greg: Great point abut fuel hedges,I know Pilot uses them along with the other majors I assume. This is one way the true margins are kept somewhat "clouded". One of the reasons I put out the point about razor-thin margins was one of...

RE: Speaking of T/Stops Petro Truck Stops Sold to Having worked for Pilot on some of takeover teams when they aquired both the Speedways and Williams, and due to the fact TA and Petro are somewhat similar in that they had both "house" restaurants and francizes(sp?), and have the large labor...

RE: Truck Stops I worked as a manager, and did a "ton" of special IT projects where I traveled almost 30 states for Pilot for 12 years, and I agree with almost of all the points SwiftyExp has bought to the forum. Let me expand with some of my knowledge about the working of truckstops. First off...

Right now I am running local metro Chicago. I buy prepaid gift cards (not the blue fuel card,those only good for gas)at Speedway, save $2.00/$50.00 load (4% or .12 cents per gallon at $2.99/gal. Use my Speedway Master card to pay for it and in the first sixty days get 8% on all purchases at...

I run for a local messeger service out of Chciago metro and just put a 2007 Sprinter in service. Since I sold my other van with a built-in XM I tried to drop my XM subsciption. XM gave me a Delpi SkiFi2 for "peanuts" to keep with their service. I hooked in up myself using the wireless FM...

Rlent: Where and what is a Marc's discount store? I use Speedway's most of the time, and use prepaid cards, but nothing close to .10 a gallon! Brownie

Sad for all of you "gassers", but the price of diesel fuel is holding, and price of gas has surpassed the price of diesel for the first time in about a year. Currenly $2.94 9 gas vs $2.79 9 diesel at the Speedway in Deerfield Illinois tonight 4/11. Who knows which way these crazy prices are...

I found at MSN Auto you can price and build any one of the 3 size 2007 Sprinter Van's with any of the options offered. Also found out by reading the fine print on the 2007 pamplet that if anyone was thinking about going with the new 6-cy gas, STOP!!! it states you must burn at least a min. 91...