20 most dangerous truck stops in America.
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Rigjockey
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I stopped in Gary. I had my Father with me and he loves trucks and as we are walking to the restaurant he is looking around at all the trucks.
I said stop looking around, walk with a purpose and act like you belong here.
I was just telling him what his brother told me when we ran team together.
I said stop looking around, walk with a purpose and act like you belong here.
I was just telling him what his brother told me when we ran team together.
Electric Chicken
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I'm probably too naive to recognize a dangerous truck stop because even the local TA seems dangerous to me because the pavement sucks.
yeah, when i first started driving, i did pull into the Gary, IN Union 76, that's what it was back then......i had actually been there all of 3 times. the 3rd time, when i was in the restroom, a guy comes running in, blood all over his shirt....he claimed his co-driver stabbed him.
that was it for me, back then, we had paper logs, so i made sure to color that logbook, to avoid that place from there on end.
Yes, the Jessup T/A......i stayed there maybe 2 times, against my better judgement, but it was all good, frankly
sorry to say, the video being over 30 minutes long, i did not watch any of it......
i'd rather be watching some sort of gun(s) video's instead.
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
I'm not defending the reputation of the truck stop of course. But if the dude was stabbed by his co-driver, it could've happened anywhere. Team operations are long-haul. They go all over.
Now if the dude had said he was stabbed by someone other than another long haul truck driver, then yeah, it's a place I'd avoid.
Electric Chicken
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There's actually two TAs down there. One in Jessup where Die Hard with a Vengeance was filmed and then the one right around the corner from the ports in Baltimore itself. I think both are sketchy AF. The worst truck stop I've personally been to at least based on appearance was the New Transit truck stop right off I-97 in Odenton MD. I was only there for the scale and even in broad daylight it was nasty.
Didn't see many people around so maybe it's a perfectly safe stop, I dunno. But I'm not very worldly.
i ran long haul as a team when i first started..way back then, for many of the companies hiring new drivers, that's the way it was.
there were times i had thoughts of wasting my co-driver........he was only 20 years old, and had been with 3, yes 3 trainers......by that time, i had, had several weeks under my belt, so they teamed him up with me..oh F-ING JOY......when did I become a trainer...???
one time in fact, i called the recruiter and told her, that if Adrian Johnson, (yup that was his name, a farm boy from PA), that i was going to rip his arm off, and beat him to death.....
she immediately transferred me to dispatch..dispatch told me not to touch him, and he will take care of it.
this is when i was with "ComTrans", the general freight division of NAVL...(north american van lines), out of Etters, PA
anyway, we were at the fort...Ft. Wayne, IN, terminal
that's where they sent him to a graydog to go to Louisville
from that point on...i was a solo driver.
and when i had to go west, and thru indy, i made sure to by-pass Gary....
so i highly suspect it was his co-driver, ready to fully slice and dice him...........at that Gary, IN Union 76........
Electric Chicken
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If I had to team drive, I would probably be some sort of felon by now.
unfortunately, for newbies, back in the day, that was the norm, after you got released from your trainer.......at 1 company, out of Medway, OH, Victory Express, it was 3 months...i forgot the time required by NAVL.
when i was at Victory, they had no one from RI, so they asked if i wanted to team up with an OH driver, i said, sure, i wanted to hurry up and do my time.
that's when i stayed in OH for 4 months, they had a bunk house, and i was given full company car privileges.
the safety guy nearly drop his cigarette to the floor, when i told him i had been there 4 months straingt.
that's when he called HR, and he was told, that YES, there was a RI student there, with his trainer
they cut him loose, teamed him with me, and i finally got home, for 4 days.
then when we returned to OH, we went right back to the GM Dedicated dispatch board, that i was working for the past 4 months
THAT co-driver did not last long.
the tornado in KS, yes, that state, scared the shit out of him, and he wanted out forever.....
but then too...before this job...??
he had like 6 other jobs he could not handle, and his father-in-law laid DOWN the LAW, on taking care of his wife and child, with another one on the way
again...i went solo, but kept the hood they assigned me, rather than dump me into the Darth Vader Helmet cabover (Peterbilt), cuz i told them, i'd walk away too, to go into that POS truck.
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