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What's The Craziest Truck Stop Experience You've Had or Witnessed?
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Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Ain't gonna select mine, that's for sure. LOL
This is back when my nephew and I drove team. I went to the restroom, picked out a stall, and there was a pair of soiled skivvies on the floor. Nope... not that one. After I was done, Jay and I headed out to the truck. Walking in front of us was a guy holding up his pants while walking, half of his rear end showing. Well... he didn't make it in time to the head, and now he's not doing so well going back to the truck. LOL
Not long later, my nephew gets in the passenger seat, and looks out. BAM!!! Skivvy guy is parked next to us, doing something to his engine, with his tallywacker saluting the wind, with his pants half way down. We just lost it there.
This is back when my nephew and I drove team. I went to the restroom, picked out a stall, and there was a pair of soiled skivvies on the floor. Nope... not that one. After I was done, Jay and I headed out to the truck. Walking in front of us was a guy holding up his pants while walking, half of his rear end showing. Well... he didn't make it in time to the head, and now he's not doing so well going back to the truck. LOL
Not long later, my nephew gets in the passenger seat, and looks out. BAM!!! Skivvy guy is parked next to us, doing something to his engine, with his tallywacker saluting the wind, with his pants half way down. We just lost it there.
stonewolf
Seasoned Expediter
Sittin in the ta out side of groveville sc watched a really intresting fight with a few logistics guys i met doin a reset there ... Two of the by far heaviest drivers i have seen i awhile where swing at each other over a cb argument both carrying a chili dog in there other hand the fight ended with only one of the chili dogs hitting the floor and the other driver buying his new found friend in morning another chili dog ... Never forget the howl of our laughter made for a great night at the dinner bar over coffee
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xxiv24
Expert Expediter
Was at the j in Birmingham a couple years ago. They were doing renovations on the men's room, unbeknownst to me. Upon reaching the door I was confronted with a cardboard sign with these words scrawled on it with magic marker, "****ter's out back!!!"
Gave me a real southern homey feeling.
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Gave me a real southern homey feeling.
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xxiv24
Expert Expediter
Was at the j in Birmingham a couple years ago. They were doing renovations on the men's room, unbeknownst to me. Upon reaching the door I was confronted with a cardboard sign with these words scrawled on it with magic marker, "****ter's out back!!!"
Gave me a real southern homey feeling.
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Evidently I should have put sh*tter's...wow
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I did not see this. It was reported to Diane and me by the man in question. He sleeps in the nude and cares deeply about his truck.
One night, while he was asleep in his truck sleeper, another truck backed into his. The bump was enough to jolt the truck but the damage was minor. Either seeing no damage and thinking there was no problem, or seeing some damage and trying to get away before getting into trouble, the driver of the offending truck drove away as if to exit the truck stop.
Having none of that, our birthday-suited friend ran on foot to catch the departing truck, taking no time to dress before beginning the chase. The truck driving away would have looked no different than any other truck moving through the truck stop parking lot. Drivers sitting awake in their cabs late that night would have been blessed with the sight of a 250 lbs., 65 year-old man running across the lot.
One night, while he was asleep in his truck sleeper, another truck backed into his. The bump was enough to jolt the truck but the damage was minor. Either seeing no damage and thinking there was no problem, or seeing some damage and trying to get away before getting into trouble, the driver of the offending truck drove away as if to exit the truck stop.
Having none of that, our birthday-suited friend ran on foot to catch the departing truck, taking no time to dress before beginning the chase. The truck driving away would have looked no different than any other truck moving through the truck stop parking lot. Drivers sitting awake in their cabs late that night would have been blessed with the sight of a 250 lbs., 65 year-old man running across the lot.
zorry
Veteran Expediter
Two
Was in Northern Ca with a dropdeck load. It hung over front of trl 3 feet and typically 3 to 5 feet over rear of trl.
I usually shower, then do my PTI in the fuel island while I fuel.
I asked cashier if I could pay for shower,leave a deposit ,or something rather than fueling ( starting my clock) and reparking if a space was even available. She said "NO ! "
It was 4am. I found a manager and worked it out.
The cashier gave me shower #3.
As I left the shower I searched out the manager to inform her that the hot water wasn't working in shower # 3.
She wasn't surprised as she responded " there hasn't been hot water in # 3 for months."
I was working for a major LTL company. We had schedules so there were no leisurely lunches.
About 8 pm I walked into a major truck stop and found a secluded spot at a counter.
Pam took my order. I called home and realized I'd been talking 20 minutes and my food hadn't arrived.
I looked around and saw a manager.
I yelled over to him "Where's my food ?".
He said " You can't order food here. This section is closed."
I said "I already ordered."
He said " No you did not. This section is closed."
Another waitress overheard us and said " Pam took his order. Pam walked into the kitchen, got into an argument with Louie the cook. She flipped him off and proceeded out the back door. She quit and probably took the driver's order with her."
The manager, shocked, failed to address my needs. He headed back to the kitchen to get Louie's story.
My lunch break was over. I went back to work hungry.
Was in Northern Ca with a dropdeck load. It hung over front of trl 3 feet and typically 3 to 5 feet over rear of trl.
I usually shower, then do my PTI in the fuel island while I fuel.
I asked cashier if I could pay for shower,leave a deposit ,or something rather than fueling ( starting my clock) and reparking if a space was even available. She said "NO ! "
It was 4am. I found a manager and worked it out.
The cashier gave me shower #3.
As I left the shower I searched out the manager to inform her that the hot water wasn't working in shower # 3.
She wasn't surprised as she responded " there hasn't been hot water in # 3 for months."
I was working for a major LTL company. We had schedules so there were no leisurely lunches.
About 8 pm I walked into a major truck stop and found a secluded spot at a counter.
Pam took my order. I called home and realized I'd been talking 20 minutes and my food hadn't arrived.
I looked around and saw a manager.
I yelled over to him "Where's my food ?".
He said " You can't order food here. This section is closed."
I said "I already ordered."
He said " No you did not. This section is closed."
Another waitress overheard us and said " Pam took his order. Pam walked into the kitchen, got into an argument with Louie the cook. She flipped him off and proceeded out the back door. She quit and probably took the driver's order with her."
The manager, shocked, failed to address my needs. He headed back to the kitchen to get Louie's story.
My lunch break was over. I went back to work hungry.
Whew! For a minute, I thought I was gonna see a different photo - one taken by a mischievous friend, while I was otherwise occupied. It was pretty crazy, lol, but I like the pink snails much better.
When I started out driving over the road on the road in 1995 I pulled into a small truck stop in Wilmington, Delaware on route 13 as I was running solo. I just dropped off my load and needed to get my eight hour break to restart my ten hours of driving. It was 9 am and I thought this truck stop would be a great place to sleep as it looked nice and clean. I pulled my Fl 60 Freightliner C unit in the truck stop parking lot and went inside for a hot breakfast as I had been driving all night and need to get some food in my body. After eating breakfast I went out to lay down to get some rest in case Robert Express called for a load later that night. About eight hours later I was woke up by a knock on the door. Being new to Expediting I thought maybe I parked my in the wrong spot or someone hit my truck. I got up in the drivers seat a rolled the window down to find some woman knocking on the door. She ask me if I needed an company, I said no as I was sleeping. She turned to me and said " I will do anything for $20.00". I said good, my truck needs washed when can you start washing it? She started swearing at me calling me everything you could think of. I said hey lady your the one that said you will doing anything for $20.00 and my truck needs washed. She turned and walked after flipping me the bird. I laugh about this every time I share this story.
Another story was back in 2004 in West Memphis, Arkansas. My co driver and I was laid over waiting on a call from FedEx Custom Critical. We was watching movies in the sleeper and I asked Ken to pause the movie so I could take a smoke break. We both smoked at the time but we never smoked in the sleeper. I sat up in the drivers seat and just took a puff off my smoke when a guy comes walking fast past my truck. I had seen the guy earlier that day buffing tanks with a old man as we was waiting to park our D-unit. Next thing you know police and EMS comes back into the truck stop with lights going. I rolled the window down and asked another driver what was going on? He said a man was stabbed and they didn't think he was going to make it. They was unclear who did this to this man. I put my shoes on and went out to talk to the police that was at the scene. I told them I had just seen a man walking fast from that area and got a good look at him.
The police said they found blood in the sink of the men's room of the truck stop we was at and was looking for the person who put it there. The old man that was stabbed had been loaded up by EMS and was taken to the local hospital. I was standing next to a officer when I heard the call come over his radio that the old man was DOA. Having a grandfather, an aunt and uncle that was all Police officer's. I knew that DOA meant Dead On Arrival and that the old man died. The West Memphis Police found out the old man had a room at the hotel next to the truck stop and went to check out his room. They found that who ever had been in this old man room had just been there and shaved in the sink and left the room in a hurry. The Police was checking everyone out around the truck stop and found a man hiding up under the expressway bridge for I 55. They had him and another man in the back of a police car now and asked me and two other drivers to come and see if either one of these men was the person that could have stabbed the old man to death. We all got into the police car and they drove us around to the front of hotel where this old man had a room.
We pulled up behind the other police car and they had the two suspects in the back of the police car park in front of us. The officers had each man get out of the car and the other two driver's couldn't Identify either of the men in the back of the car in front of us. I was 90% sure the one man was the man I seen walking fast from where the old man was stabbed. I remembered watching many police shows over the years as I loved shows like CSI and what would they do. If I was going to say this was the man I thought was the person who stabbed the old man I had to know for sure. I asked the Police office to have the man I thought was the killer to stick his feet out the side of the police car and have the other officer check his shoes for traces of blood in the cracks of his shoes.
The man did and there was blood in the cracks of his shoes. I told the officer I was 100% that was the man who stabbed the old man that night. I had to call FedEx and tell them that I had to go to West Memphis police station and give a statement. The police officers thank me as the man admitted to the police he stabbed the man over money they made cleaning drivers tanks in the truck stop. The one officer ask me what made me think to have them check this guys shoes. I told them it was something I had seen on a police show on TV.
Another story was back in 2004 in West Memphis, Arkansas. My co driver and I was laid over waiting on a call from FedEx Custom Critical. We was watching movies in the sleeper and I asked Ken to pause the movie so I could take a smoke break. We both smoked at the time but we never smoked in the sleeper. I sat up in the drivers seat and just took a puff off my smoke when a guy comes walking fast past my truck. I had seen the guy earlier that day buffing tanks with a old man as we was waiting to park our D-unit. Next thing you know police and EMS comes back into the truck stop with lights going. I rolled the window down and asked another driver what was going on? He said a man was stabbed and they didn't think he was going to make it. They was unclear who did this to this man. I put my shoes on and went out to talk to the police that was at the scene. I told them I had just seen a man walking fast from that area and got a good look at him.
The police said they found blood in the sink of the men's room of the truck stop we was at and was looking for the person who put it there. The old man that was stabbed had been loaded up by EMS and was taken to the local hospital. I was standing next to a officer when I heard the call come over his radio that the old man was DOA. Having a grandfather, an aunt and uncle that was all Police officer's. I knew that DOA meant Dead On Arrival and that the old man died. The West Memphis Police found out the old man had a room at the hotel next to the truck stop and went to check out his room. They found that who ever had been in this old man room had just been there and shaved in the sink and left the room in a hurry. The Police was checking everyone out around the truck stop and found a man hiding up under the expressway bridge for I 55. They had him and another man in the back of a police car now and asked me and two other drivers to come and see if either one of these men was the person that could have stabbed the old man to death. We all got into the police car and they drove us around to the front of hotel where this old man had a room.
We pulled up behind the other police car and they had the two suspects in the back of the police car park in front of us. The officers had each man get out of the car and the other two driver's couldn't Identify either of the men in the back of the car in front of us. I was 90% sure the one man was the man I seen walking fast from where the old man was stabbed. I remembered watching many police shows over the years as I loved shows like CSI and what would they do. If I was going to say this was the man I thought was the person who stabbed the old man I had to know for sure. I asked the Police office to have the man I thought was the killer to stick his feet out the side of the police car and have the other officer check his shoes for traces of blood in the cracks of his shoes.
The man did and there was blood in the cracks of his shoes. I told the officer I was 100% that was the man who stabbed the old man that night. I had to call FedEx and tell them that I had to go to West Memphis police station and give a statement. The police officers thank me as the man admitted to the police he stabbed the man over money they made cleaning drivers tanks in the truck stop. The one officer ask me what made me think to have them check this guys shoes. I told them it was something I had seen on a police show on TV.
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littlejoe
Veteran Expediter
Ain't gonna select mine, that's for sure. LOL
This is back when my nephew and I drove team. I went to the restroom, picked out a stall, and there was a pair of soiled skivvies on the floor. Nope... not that one. After I was done, Jay and I headed out to the truck. Walking in front of us was a guy holding up his pants while walking, half of his rear end showing. Well... he didn't make it in time to the head, and now he's not doing so well going back to the truck. LOL
Not long later, my nephew gets in the passenger seat, and looks out. BAM!!! Skivvy guy is parked next to us, doing something to his engine, with his tallywacker saluting the wind, with his pants half way down. We just lost it there.
Is it possible not to to blow Mountain Dew out through your nose after reading that? Owwwwwwch
Still laughing after that story
Joe
littlejoe
Veteran Expediter
New bumper stickers for the Mayfield fleet:
Dave Mayfield, CSI; Keeping Lot Lizards Honest
Picture it - Woodhaven Michigan, many years ago (can you tell I'm a big Estelle Getty fan - Golden girls?) It was a very hot mid summer day. Two crazy dudes were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, sweating profusely. They were busy planting the seed for what would become the Midwest's BEST truck show, and the only one that caters to the Expedite industry specifically. Yes folks I am talking Lawrence McCord and Jeff Jensen at the first Expedite Expo. If that was not crazy, I do not know what is!
guido4475
Not a Member
I'm not sure if this falls under the requested category, but I'll give it a stab...lol..
I-81 in pa, exit 77. The truckstop next to the T/A. With that being the only one that had a place to park, I settled in to watch a movie. Went up front to have a cig after an hour, and the driver next to me was sitting in his seat as well. There were a few lot lizards walking the lot, nothing new for that truckstop. We ended up starting to talk about anything, and he tells me, this place is too dead. We need to liven it up a bit. I then ask him how he intends to do that? He tells me to give him a few minutes......
He's in his sleeper, doing what I don't know, and he then comes back up front carefully holding one of those gas powered remote controlled life like helicopters. He then comes outside, and puts it on his step deck, and gets a can of some kind of special gas for it out and gasses the helicopter up.
He tells me to stand back.
He fires that up, and he says we should get back into our trucks.
By this time, the lot lizard force has grown to an estimated 14 or so. They were out bigtime.
I never realized how fast one of those things, (helicopters,)can move....lol...
He proceeds to chase these lot lizards around, with the helicopter. I never laughed so hard in my life. I damm near crapped myself. This one lot lizard was hiding from it, peeking around the corner, and he is hovering behind her, and lowers it down behind her. She screams and starts running through the lot, like a mad woman, with this helicopter chasing her. The C.B. was just buzzing with drivers laughing at the show...
Never did sleep that night....lol...
I-81 in pa, exit 77. The truckstop next to the T/A. With that being the only one that had a place to park, I settled in to watch a movie. Went up front to have a cig after an hour, and the driver next to me was sitting in his seat as well. There were a few lot lizards walking the lot, nothing new for that truckstop. We ended up starting to talk about anything, and he tells me, this place is too dead. We need to liven it up a bit. I then ask him how he intends to do that? He tells me to give him a few minutes......
He's in his sleeper, doing what I don't know, and he then comes back up front carefully holding one of those gas powered remote controlled life like helicopters. He then comes outside, and puts it on his step deck, and gets a can of some kind of special gas for it out and gasses the helicopter up.
He tells me to stand back.
He fires that up, and he says we should get back into our trucks.
By this time, the lot lizard force has grown to an estimated 14 or so. They were out bigtime.
I never realized how fast one of those things, (helicopters,)can move....lol...
He proceeds to chase these lot lizards around, with the helicopter. I never laughed so hard in my life. I damm near crapped myself. This one lot lizard was hiding from it, peeking around the corner, and he is hovering behind her, and lowers it down behind her. She screams and starts running through the lot, like a mad woman, with this helicopter chasing her. The C.B. was just buzzing with drivers laughing at the show...
Never did sleep that night....lol...
