I I’ve in Salina now - but use to come from Tucson , had a surgeon named Schilling - & I asked him the base my dad worked at was the same name. It was his Uncle who the Schilling was named after ( former Smokey Hill Base.
@user-mb4wh2xf5c
Ай бұрын
That was a Freightliner dealer years ago next to the Bossellmans. Bosselmans in Salina had fried walleye dinners and it was good.
@glens2036
Ай бұрын
I know who owns the Phillip 66 on W Crawford. He owns several gas stations around town. The most I have ever seen done to any of them is new fuel pumps. I don't get out north a lot, but I remember going out to Bosselmans/Grandma Max's to eat with my family. My dad is truck driver, has been since I was little.
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
That Phillips is just worn out. I saw an article about that hotel pop up in the Salina journal, actually yesterday, and I couldn't believe how far south that hotel has gone. I used to eat at the restaurant in that hotel years ago and just a few short years later it's just an abandoned dump
@glens2036
Ай бұрын
@@truckerdaveandred6731 You must be refering to the Ambassador that has now going to be leveled. Which months ago I tried to get the Trump organization to purchase and restore. Guess not.
@ksokie63
Ай бұрын
There used to be lots of business in side the boss. It had cb repair ,barber shop, flat bed willys sign shop. The restaurant was a decent place to eat back in the day. But, it seeem to be fast food everywhere now days. And now you have Casey's taking over and they really dont care about the drivers. Pilot and Casey's both take over and restaurant are gone. But the worst is most dont care for the places after taking over let the lots go to pot holes , things out of ordered and raised prices. And biggest thing getting rid of coffee pots.
@chessknight8091
Ай бұрын
The decay of Salina truck stops is due to the economic setback in Salina. During the 1980s, Salina was booming (two drive-in theaters 🎥). Salina recently lost four major retailers, Sears, JC Penny's, Dillard's, and Kmart. So, the end result is a decline in population and, therefore, an erosion of the city. Sad, but true.
@chadmotter2435
Ай бұрын
I remember Bosselmand having 10 cent cones, and I would get one with my dad back in the 80s when we trucked out there. So different from the 80s and 90s. :-(
@user-xg3jt3oj9v
Ай бұрын
Got out of over the road in 2004,went through Salina 2017 ,holy shit flying J ,bosselman, Petro,have all to shit, I got out in the right time
@larryreinke6136
Ай бұрын
Your bringing back memories, through the decades going west on 80 I stopped at the Bosslemens from Des Moines to Big Springs. I'll leave a scathing post about Sapp Bros. If you do a video about them. Talk about dumps, back in the 80' s I was a beer hauler outa Milwaukee, had beer runs down to St.Louis, and back then I-39 from LaSalle to Bloomington IL. did not exist, there was a so called truck stop in Tonica IL that we stopped at, it looked like a bombed out building and the parking lot? those were not pot holes, they were bomb craters. I like when drivers call a Pilot a truck stop, those are fuel stops, to me a true truck stop are the old 76's now TA's, Petro. I get a headache trying to figure out just how in the hell could that sh*t hole Pilot buy the Flying J, I avoided the Pilot like the Plague. If you're ever in the Oak Creek WI. area, the Loves has a Denny's restaurant in it. It's worth stopping in there, they are pretty good, got some grub there last Saturday morning and it was a whole lot better than before, and they were pretty good back then when it was a Flying J.
@cliffmandelt
Ай бұрын
I ate at the huddle house in Peoria never again the service was bad and the food was worse.
@cyclemaster46
Ай бұрын
Salina was a dump 50yrs ago. Lot lizards everywhere. I hauled seafood for SYCO SEAFOOD.
@knowone6214
Ай бұрын
I can't believe how Salina has went to hell in a hand basket....used to stop at the Philips 66 twice a week years and years ago hauling grain
@ShaunSavage-kl9pd
Ай бұрын
I grew up in that town
@rpsmith
Ай бұрын
Me too. Graduated from Salina High in '66. It was a really nice middle class town back then. I avoid it now!
@truckingresources4240
Ай бұрын
Did you happen to notice that all of these truck stops have full displays of flip flops for sale. it was actually in one of your clips when you were showing the small section of the truck stop that was for "truckers," Even the Love's have taken away one of the displays to have and array of Flip-Flops!!
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
You need him to go into the showers. You know these showers don't get cleaned. They just put clean towels in them or what passes for a clean towel and send it. There's no way I'll Stand in one of these showers in my bare feet
@JohnLambert-rd8eb
Ай бұрын
Just- a few words where have all the truck stops gone there should be a song about that now iam a retired truck driver i drove 1976 till 2017 and tell me why drivers rather eat fast foods than sit down have nice meal i dont know do you well keep on trucking
@keneddie7336
Ай бұрын
Aways love a Connie. I enjoy watching your show
@soflodoug
Ай бұрын
sometime when you gotta take a piss you go anywhere.
@Kountrykruiser
Ай бұрын
I caught the end of it 25 years ago running 80 out, down 101 and back out along 40 and 44 to the Midwest. Had all kinds of faves from an AM Best, 76, Bosselman, Sapp. Could get one healthy decent square meal a day guaranteed. Didnt mind paid either as I got 50 gallons or dropped $25 in the store or restaurant to get it validated. Places had a cb shop, barber, shoe shine and I even remember a dentist at a couple. Enjoyed weekend layovers doing laundry and picking up a bag of rags and some polish for when I got bored. That was me before marriage and anywhere to actually live at. Had mail going to a relative's. That was when I traded prepaid calling cards for a cell phone until I learned about roaming charges in Utah and Nevada 😅. Nice trip on the memories though.
@Osideguy79
Ай бұрын
To be honest I wouldn’t think to have high expectations for a truck stop in Kansas.
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
You're not wrong. Kansas has done their best to keep truck stops out. The state has been absolutely no help
@richardeckert6130
Ай бұрын
I use to stay in the old Bossomans in Grand Island when they use to have rooms up stairs that's been a few days ago
@rwdfinch11
Ай бұрын
When you stopped at the old airport and showed the Connie, it got me to thinking. Have you ever seen the one in Polk City, FL? It's just a mile or so north of the Loves truck stop off I 4 exit 44. Its easy off on with a big truck. Only a couple miles out of the way. It's really cool. You can drive right past it. I always loved the Constellations.
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
I've heard a lot about that one but I've never seen it. All I've seen is the planes that were next to the highway. That was a few years ago but the constellation is probably one of my favorite planes
@Sgt-Locksmith
Ай бұрын
They used to be granny kitchen. Had prime rib buffet back in the day. Miss that
@user-mb4wh2xf5c
Ай бұрын
That old Connie has been sitting there for many years..I got off the road in early 2000 and it was there..I was in Salina all the time to load at Tony's pizza.
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
I hauled a lot of pizza myself. We used to park our semis behind that Connie and make it look like our trucks had wings. They made great postcards.
@marlinolson9937
Ай бұрын
Pilot bought em out
@user-xg3jt3oj9v
Ай бұрын
I dont agree at all for paid parking prices are bad enough for truckers
@truckerdaveandred6731
Ай бұрын
Like I said, I have a real bunch of mixed feelings about paid parking. In the last few years these guys have started treating truck stops like they're owed the spot and they treat the truck stops like their own personal terminals. There's zero respect for the truck stop or the owners and they're sitting there demanding parking spots and not spending a dime at the truck stop Fort Wayne Travel Plaza got to be like that where there was one company that had anywhere between 25 and 30 Drop trailers all over the truck stop and their employees were blocking spots with cars. So out of 150 places to park they had blocked up around 65 of them. There's no happy medium here anymore. And I will be the first to agree that prices have gotten ridiculous to a level that was unfathomable 10 years ago, I think a lot of these truck stops finally decided that enough was enough. But then you ask where are the local supposed to park? That's really not the truck stops problem. I'm a firm believer that if you're running local, you need to have a place figured out
@rovvt1284
Ай бұрын
truckers all eat subway and or cirle k hotdogs or Ramon soup. no need for restaurants at the truck stops.
@user-mb4wh2xf5c
Ай бұрын
I think you should have stopped in at Triangle Trucking and see if they would give you a job..thats where the BIG money is!🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁🤣
@dave.lawrence.3894
Ай бұрын
Truck stops have changed to a hurry up and get out of here... RV stops...
@rodneycody8746
Ай бұрын
What u do money trip
@__--JY-Moe--__
Ай бұрын
scrap! that's what there doing! & what Man, can afford to wait for time? geez! if U had a HD wench with a flatbed U could haul all that cheap scrap away! if these businesses don't make huge money they fall in the shit! it's a ridicules economic system!
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