Truck Stop News

"Open & Shut" is CSP Daily News' occasional roundup of some of the many new-store openings, reopenings, groundbreakings, raze and rebuilds, rebrandings, closures and sales taking place around the country by chains small, medium and large that have not otherwise been reported.

Sen. Olympia J. Snowe shakes hands with Jordan Kiester , 20 of St. Francis, ME while talking with her, her mother Kelly Kiester of St.

It seems easy enough -- park the rig for the night, grab an extension cord and plug in to an outlet to power the heater or a TV.

Five new faces adorn the Wall of Honor at the Cowan Civic Center today after Thursday's annual Community Achievement Awards dinner.

Accused interstate serial killer Bruce Mendenhall should be in court Friday. A motions hearing has been scheduled for Friday afternoon on charges that while he was in jail, Mendenhall hired a hitman to kill two police detectives and three witnesses.

The first big winter storm of the season has arrived, and it's coming with a force.

Ronnie Dunn performs during a sold-out concert Friday night in the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, B.C. Chronicle photo by Roger Harnack Brooks and Dunn driver Lyndle Cortez sits with Connie Knight of Havillah during an impromptu concert at the Omak Shell Truck Stop.

Even without Drag the River, Chad Price's sweet face is smiling. Details: Chad Price in-store performance, 6 p.m. Friday, October 23, Twist & Shout, 2508 East Colfax Avenue, free, 303-722-1943; with Two Cow Garage and Truckstop Coffee, 9 p.m. Friday, October 23, Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, free, 303-777-7352. Chad Price , All , Drag ...

Mark Simila installs an Electrified Parking Space pod at the Big Boys Truck Stop off I-95 in Johnston County on Monday.

Just on the west side of Blackville is the Nine Pines Truck Stop and Fisherman's Rest.

"I gave up smoking, women and drinkin' last night," the singer shouts, "and it was the worst 15 minutes of mah life!" The music blaring from the radio tonight is country.

Rand McNally, the trusted leader in trucking industry navigation, today announced the availability of the new IntelliRoute TNDTM 500, the first truck navigation device built from the ground up for professional truck drivers.

The Kenly 95 TA Truckstop recently unveiled a 65-foot lighthouse, constructed as part of a larger expansion of the truckstop that should be completed in early 2010.

Reverend Horton Heat, with Truckstop Coffee and Johnny SexFuk and the Flesh Rockets.

Vernice Louise Colvin was trying to get her life -- and her family -- together. Colvin, 43, had gotten a job with DNI Trucking, a North Carolina company, driving 18-wheelers. Her troubled past, which included illegal drug use, was behind her, and she was set on reuniting with her five children, said her mother, Claudette Colvin.

It looks like last week's concert lull may be the worst of it, kids. From here on out things are heating back up, so hop on.

Chauncey Taylor is the owner of Johnson's Corner Restaurant, Bakery and Truckstop "As long as I have run this place , we've always provided health care for our employees.

A provision in Illinois' new video gambling law could turn some Illinois truckstops into mini-casinos, reported The Pantagraph .

Monica Massaro was sleeping in her Bloomsbury, N.J., home when someone opened her unlocked door, walked into her bedroom and slit her throat.

Building on the success of its number one trucker's atlas, the Rand McNally Motor Carriers' Road Atlas and decades of leadership in commercial transportation software industry, Rand McNally's IntelliRoute TNDTM 500 boasts 35 percent more truck-attributed roads than its leading competitor and nearly 13,000 truck-related geo-coded points of interest.