Fuel Island Review
Pilot Ohio Sunbury

This "Fuel Island Review Pilot Ohio Sunbury" is a review of the fuel island at the Pilot Travel Center in Sunbury, OH, 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: 7/14/2010

Location: Pilot Travel Center, Sunbury, OH, I-71, exit 131

Observations

Some source of music could be heard throughout the fuel bay area. It definitely was not our taste in music. In fact, we wonder how many drivers like this particular style of music. We recommend that if any music be playing outside, it should be some generic soft music.

There was no paper towel dispenser at the bay where Mike got fuel and one dispenser observed in another bay was broken.

Not only were there no hoses on the water faucets at two of the fuel bays, but the faucets delivered no water whatsoever!

Mike said he had to step around discarded food in the fuel bay. Where was the janitorial staff to sweep or hose down the fuel bays regularly?

Management needs to tend to the things that drivers routinely need at this facility.