truck stop
noun
: a facility especially for truckers that is usually by a highway and that includes a diner, fuel pumps, and a garage
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Those two tractor-trailer-ready diesel fueling stations make this gas station count as a truck stop under Aurora city ordinances, but the facility isn’t planned to have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025
Three others, all members of the original 2015 list, died: Love’s truck stop cofounder Judy Love, who was 87; casino entrepreneur Elaine Wynn, 82; and former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, 56.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
At last my curiosity got the better of me, and Exit 53 off Interstate 40 delivered me to the door of a traditional Indian truck stop restaurant called Preet Dhaba.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Other towns, such as Matteson, set limits by allowing video gambling in businesses, but not in licensed truck stop establishments.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025
Three others, all members of the original 2015 list, died: Love’s truck stop cofounder Judy Love, who was 87; casino entrepreneur Elaine Wynn, 82; and former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, 56.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
At last my curiosity got the better of me, and Exit 53 off Interstate 40 delivered me to the door of a traditional Indian truck stop restaurant called Preet Dhaba.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Other towns, such as Matteson, set limits by allowing video gambling in businesses, but not in licensed truck stop establishments.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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