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Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, doing business as Love's (or stylized as Loves), is an American family-owned and -operated chain of more than 630 truck stops in 42 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City. Love's ranked No. 10 on the 2022 Forbes list of America's largest private ...
A-Plus (Philadelphia) – located at Sunoco gas stations Acme Express ( Malvern ) – Greater Philadelphia GetGo ( Pittsburgh ) – locations throughout western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, northern West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, a division of Giant Eagle
OLCO Petroleum Group – 319 stations in Ontario and Quebec; Petro-Canada – 1323 stations and 200 Petro-Pass stations across Canada; some acquired from BP (1983), Petrofina (1981) and Gulf Oil in the 1980s; Pioneer Petroleum – 130 stations in Ontario; 7-Eleven brand gasoline; Shell Canada – Canadian unit of Shell with 1800 stations across ...
The Love’s empire — which now includes more than 644 stores in 42 states and estimated revenues of $26.5 billion, according to Forbes — began when Judy and Tom leased a single gas station in ...
Speedway started in 1952 as Speedway 79, the name of a fuel chain based in Michigan.Unlike other fuel station chains at the time, Speedway 79 did not have a service station to perform vehicle maintenance, but rather vending machines that focused on cigarette and soft drink sales, giving their locations the nickname "Smokes and Cokes".
Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores. [3] Its stores, which are open 24/7 year-round, offer made-to-order fast food, and most include a gas station, while a few locations are full-scale truck stops, offering showers and a laundromat. [4]
Initially, Love owned restaurants and car washes, until he discovered an opportunity in abandoned gas stations. [3] In January 1964, Love and his wife Judy leased a self-service gas station in Watonga, Oklahoma. [6] [3] Love went on to open another 30 gas stations. Then in 1971, he decided to merge self-service gas stations with convenience ...
Most states do not mandate certain standard gasoline grade octane ratings.In the United States and Canada, octane ratings are in AKI, commonly shown as "(R+M)/2".All states require gas pumps to be labeled with the correct octane level and nearly all states do regular testing to make sure gas stations are in compliance.