Every truck stop has a “secret menu” of foods that you have to ask for. My favorite? “The Safe-to-eat Fish”.
If a truck stop has a huge sign that is at least a hundred feet above the ground, it is probably a clean and well-run establishment. This is moot, however, because, once you get onto the access road, you’ll never ever find it.
As far as the food is concerned, the safest thing to ask for in a truck stop is the check.
Eating at a truck stop need not be unhealthy. Order the “heart-smart” egg-white omelet. Maybe some beluga caviar on the side for dipping… and some unicorn jerky for the road.
You can often get a ride from a trucker who is going the same direction you are. Often they just want company or conversation or that thrill they get when the kill yet another hitchhiker….
Truck stops tend to have more grease in their coffee than on their eggs. If you want low cholesterol, just order whatever you like but don’t eat it.
Just in case you are in dire need of a post card with a bikini-clad woman on it and a pun either about her breasts or her buttocks, they usually sell them at the cash register.
Your eating utensils have seen things that they cannot unsee. They’ve been places that your worst nightmares and Rob Zombie can only hint at. Enjoy your pancakes!
Despite her use of the words “sugar” and “honey”, your waitress only thinks of you as a tip with feet…
Sometimes a spirited arm-wrestling match breaks out in the dining area, leading to a spirited argument about who cheated… often leading to guns being pulled out. If you were planning on leaving without paying, this is the time: Wait ‘til the shooting starts, head for the door and, for God’s sake, KEEP LOW…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
There are so many truck stops and roadside restaurants in the United States. Here in Sweden there is quite a distance between the roadside restaurants, and some special truck stops are not here, but many restaurants have large parking spaces for trucks.
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In Sweden, is most of your goods transport by train or by truck?
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Now days it’ most by trucks and we have a lot of trucks on the roads, but we do not have the truck culture you have, your country is also much bigger than ours.
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get back here after cleaning ..for my well-deserved laugh of the housewife 😂
I see you are into trucks lol
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I’m into anything that can drive over a Honda and not even notice it…
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Haha
Ps. Im into anything that can drive…even if it is a donkey 🙃😹
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I just like donkeys… mules are better, though…
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Got it: ask for the eggs, put it in your coffee, take the bill and run away 😂😂 keep ur route closer to the WC tho…
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You did read my previous article on the water closet at truck stops, right?
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Yep…I think I commented there.
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Yep, I did 🙂 just checked.
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So you do NOT want a path to the WC…
BTW, ready to start on the book Idaho. Looking forward to it… After a five hundred page biography on Beckett, anything will look pleasant…
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In outback Australia truck stops let you have free hot showers …. I wonder why??? Maybe a clean truckie doesn’t hit as hard.
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Showers at truck stops? That’s socialism, my friend…
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In the outback ….
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“Socialism in the Outback” Either a great name for a book or a progressive rock band…
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