Fuel Island Review
Pilot Tennessee Pioneer

This "Fuel Island Review Pilot Tennessee Pioneer" is a review of the fuel island at the Pilot Travel Center in Pioneer, TN, 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: 6/26/2010

Location: Pilot Travel Center, Pioneer, TN, I-75, exit 141

Observation: "Fuel Island Review Pilot Tennessee Pioneer"

On this particular evening, a line of trucks was parked alongside the curb in back of where trucks turn into the fuel island area, making it more difficult to swing into the bays closest to the building. This did not have a bearing on the grade. However, since this is the only major truck stop in the area, perhaps Pilot ought to consider expanding its truck parking to keep drivers from parking along the curb.