Truck driver's heaven. Flying J maintains 130 Travel Plazas across the
United States, offering all sorts of
amenities to them what hauls
cargo in 12-hour stretches across big plains full of nothin'. Preventive
maintenance,
tire services,
wash bays,
restaurants,
fuel,
audio book rentals (just return them at any Flying J when you're done), and a store selling everything from
electronics to three-dollar
t-shirts to clean
socks to
tacky wood carvings of
wolves and
eagles.
I recently drove from one end of the continental U.S. to the other in a Budget rental truck. The periodic appearance of a Flying J was the only thing that kept me sane during the West Texas leg from Fort Worth to El Paso.