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A typical breakfast dish served at the Dixie. The Dixie Travel Plaza, previously known as the Dixie Truck Stop and Dixie Trucker's Home, [1] is a large trucker and travel plaza located in McLean, Illinois, on Interstate 55. [2] It was established by J.P. Walters and John Geske in 1928 on old US Route 66 as a small sandwich stand in a truck ...
The first Road Ranger was opened in 1984 in Rockford, Illinois, by Northern Illinois University business graduate Daniel "Dan" Arnold. The first location was purchased with $5,000 of Arnold's savings and a loan taken out by him and his wife. Arnold sold the company to Phillips Petroleum in 1990 to pursue other interests in real estate and ...
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King. [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith.The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, and follows the events after all machines (including trucks ...
The Big Horn Travel Center is a 9,000-square-foot truck stop that houses an enormous convenience store, several fast-food restaurants, and the "cleanest bathrooms in Texas," according to at least ...
The band released their second studio album, Dixie Truck Stop!, in the following month, [1] which was produced by Francois Taviaux. The Canberra Times ' Lisa Wallace observed, "Brash, rough and not terribly uplifting, these young lads may go far, but not as rock and rollers."
TravelCenters of America (TA) is an operator of truck stops and travel centers in the United States,[1]with approximately 270 full-service locations along the Interstate Highway Systemin 44 U.S. statesand in Canada, plus standalone restaurants in more than 10 states, as of 2018. [6][7]The publicly traded limited liability companyis ...
A Husky truck stop in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. A truck stop, known as a service station in the United Kingdom, [1] and a travel center by major chains in the United States, is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
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 ...