Fuel Island Review
Pilot North Carolina Waynesville

This "Fuel Island Review Pilot North Carolina Waynesville" is a review of the fuel island at the Pilot Travel Center in Waynesville, NC, USA.

Note:

This review is being conducted based upon our own expectations of what a fuel island that caters to professional truck drivers of commercial motor vehicles should be like. Mike's driver manager at his trucking company has said that the company wants feedback from their drivers regarding their fuel solutions (locations where they are assigned to get fuel). If the drivers have a bad experience, they are to report that and if the company receives enough bad reports about a particular fueling location, the company will look for alternatives. In this way, there is an economic incentive for truck stops to provide what drivers need and want when they arrive at a fueling location.

For our review, we are choosing to assign a number to each aspect of the fuel island experience:

• "5" is excellent;
• "4" is very good;
• "3" is average or ok;
• "2" is unsatisfactory and needs attention;
• "1" is poor and needs immediate corrective action; and
• "N/A" means not applicable.

We are choosing not to identify a specific bay because we figure that what goes at one bay at a facility will generally be true at all of them.

Fuel Island Review

Date: 6/30/2010

Location: Pilot Travel Center, Waynesville, NC, I-40, exit 24

Observations about entrance: "Fuel Island Review Pilot North Carolina Waynesville"

The space between the road and the fuel bays at this travel center is very short for drivers of conventional tractors pulling 53' trailers. Basically, there is too little space to queue. This was short-sighted of the group responsible for laying out the design of this travel plaza. For the purpose of this fuel island review, however, we did not take it into grading consideration. Perhaps Pilot will do so in the future?