I haven't heard any comments on the city planning dept' approving the plans to build a Pilot Truck Stop here.

I have been driving trucks since 1974, for the longest time I traveled around the country with Rock Bands hauling their equipment. I stopped at or slept at ALOT OF THEM.

Pilot Truck Stops are the worst !   They are the fast food version of a truck stop. They don't really provide for overnight parking of trucks, they cater more to those who need to fuel and go.

It would have been better to have the Petro Truck Stop in town than to have a Pilot at an exit /on ramp.   Here is exactly what the situation is going to be when this gets built.

1.There will be backed up traffic (cars & trucks) blocking the lanes on the Fwy. both directions.

2.  An increase of truck traffic on Hwy. 58 both directions (probably more than double)

3.  Accidents involving big trucks and little cars.

4.  Traffic jams ALL OVER the whole area on Tehachapi Blvd., both sides of the fwy. from at least the Chevron Station to Willow Springs.

5.  More litter and "pee bombs" (from the idiots who don't care or who are mad at whoever). Pilot doesn't provide enough parking, so these guys will park where ever and then litter.

These are just SOME of the problems that WILL HAPPEN. Tehachapi blvd. and Willow Springs are designated as Truck routes they can drive on them and park on them, in front of the chamber, the antique stores, burger spot, the German Bakery, any where they want. These need to be changed to  NO TRUCKS, NOT A TRUCK ROUTE.

You think the occasional slow truck on Willow Springs/ Tehachapi  is a nuisance wait until the word gets out that trucks can avoid going through the Truck Scales by going over the grade. it will be bumper to bumper trucks, not to mention the rookies who shouldn't be driving anyway and lose their gearing and can't get going again.

Go to Four Corners on Hwy. 395 & Hwy. 58 and look at the mess Piolot has created there. Then go to I-5 at the Grapevine and look at the Petro Truck Stop and see how they provide about 300 parking spaces and hace a nice resturant and other convienances.

The city wants revenue so badley they are willing to sell our way of life out for it.

Tehachapi is really going to be ugly from the Freeway.