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I'm sure those houses will be gone in a year or two. At least the brick house in the foreground is a rental from the same LLC that owns the property where Buccees is going.

Those Bucce'Nuggets are the bomb. Can't go there without buying a bag of them.
They also have real gasoline at a couple of them I've visited. No ethanol and my old Chitolay truck gets almost 22mpg.

I do believe that you were LOST!!!!!!

I'm a Buc-ee's fan. They take a simple concept, & they execute the hell out of it.

The gas is almost always the cheapest. The pumps work, and are clean. They're never out of DEF. Those locations that have windshield cleaning stuff are well-stocked, and the wiper sticks are always functional.

I never have to wade through sewage on the floor in the men's room - it's always cleaner than a surgical suite. The soap & towel dispensers are always stocked, and I never have to wait for a schidder.

The coffee aint world class, but it's always fresh & consistent at every store I've been to. They're always well-stocked with stuff to dump in the coffee.

The sausage & jerky are done well. The kolaches aren't top-shelf, but they're a solid B+, and outside of a Buc-ee's, I can't find 'em at all when I'm not in TX. Brisket never sucks, though I get my sammies dry there, 'cause I find their sauce too sweet, and too liberally applied.

They must have the greatest corporate training regimen. Every employee I've seen looks like they just stepped out of a shower. They're all in uniform, and it's worn correctly. The women have tastefully applied makeup. Most of all, they all seem to be genuinely happy to be there. I've never had a remotely bad experience with any Buc-ee's employee.

Is it a tourist trap? Abso-damned-LOUTELY. That's a helluva lot of overhead they have to cover. But they bait that trap awfully well, and they always deliver what they promise. No, it would never be my corner store for a loaf o' bread + a 12 pack, but they make my road trips more bearable.

I get the issue that they don't allow OTR trucks, but it's impossible to be all things to all people. Making them even bigger to accommodate trucks would necessitate bigger interchanges, & really snarl entrance & egress. Better to cede that business to Loves/Flying J/Pilot/TA, and focus on what they do best.

Just my $0.03

FC

There gonna build a new one about 20 miles north of me on I-95. I usually stop at one before I get off the interstate on the way to camp. Top off the truck, fill a few gas cans for the 4 wheeler, sxs, and generator. Whats not to like. Cheap gas and clean bathrooms. I grab some beef jerky and a brisket sandwich on the way out so I have something ready to eat when I get to camp.

Well said FC. For the reasons you so well stated, reiterates why I commented that they are marketing geniuses. Not to mention the cheapest bags of ice you'll ever find anywhere, even though they just jacked the price up a few months ago.

Impossible, my hand was on the venison FTMFW

That's some acreage.

So is Little America and Giant.


The last two, probably eclipse Buc-ees in acreage.




JGRaider,
As someone who relied on truckstops for most of my sustenance and sleep,
I've been in a few. Border to border and coast to coast.

Two things lately determine the character of a truckstop.
Exactly like a bar.

Neighborhood,
And management.

You can't manage your way around too much trash.
Typically though, you get the trash you allow.


Clean the damn place daily, keep it neat,
run off the whòres and scammers,
and you won't have much trouble.


Most major interchanges have multiple truckstops.
And they are usually playing different roles.
One will be nice and clean, attract guys who are working for a living.
Stopping for truck and driver fuel, clean shower, uninterrupted sleep.

The other will be scruffy, with scruffy help and clients.
Dirty fuel islands and bathrooms, sometimes good food.
Blizzards crawling the lot and parties and whatnot in the backrow.
CB advertised "Truck Cleaning Services😉😉" in the parking lot.



My wife ran a Truck fueling C-store.
Having driven herself she was sympathetic, and wise.
The place was kept clean, her help that might go out to trucks were fired.
Like anyplace, you get what you allow.



PS. Fuel was the #1 seller but cars outnumbered trucks hugely.
She got many compliments about how clean the place was, from 4-wheeler drivers.

Interesting, that makes some sense. That LLC will make more than enough I'm guessing to cover the loss of rent.

Was that empty land before the work started or did they tear out other houses/businesses?

F’n boomers. Lol

Geno is the Fire’s boomer though

Don't get between me and my Buc-ee's restroom!!

They just opened a Buc-ee in Springfield, MO. I took prefer Kwik Trip

I’ll stop at QT just for food

Maybe not the best but I want some brisket right now after reading this

Hank

Always liked QT.
Good food.

They didn't discriminate against us dirty, hairy palmed, cigar chewing truckers.
😉

I just wasn't aware that I-75 had an exit in Texas?????

There are truck stops at almost every exit here in the south, plenty of places that cater to truckers. Buc-ee's doesn't want big rigs cluttering up the parking lot and blocking their paying customers, they want travelers coming in and out quickly which is what I want to do also. It's annoying as hell to try to pay for a coke & potato chips at a truck stop and getting behind a trucker paying for fuel who takes 10 minutes to give 47 pages of information to the cashier to charge their fuel. I've never waited more than 30 seconds for a cashier to open up at a Buc-ee's. They cater to families and the bathrooms are spotlessly maintained, they know that Mama decides where to stop and they don't want to walk into a place where some beer bellied trucker who can't see his pecker has pissed all over the toilet seat. Notice Buc-ee's doesn't have tables and chairs inside either, everything is grab and go, they want the customers in and out quickly.

I'm sure truckers are welcome at Buc-ee's just like anyone else, just not while driving their rigs. There are a gazillion truck stops, go to one of them and leave the rest of us a decent place to stop.

Couldn't say it better myself, even though I tried! The cleanest truck stop in America don't hold a candle to Bucees. My dad was in marketing with Skelly Oil Co/Getty/Texaco for a couple of decades, primarily in the truck stop sector. He always said the best places were very well lit, very clean, and had good food. As you said, it can be packed and you won't wait in line to check out more that a minute or two at most. They are a cash flow machine.

I ain't a real boomer though,

Never set foot in no Buc-ees.

Hey, you called it right, good gfy too, on that response to camuglia by the dude with 100 posts or so!