LOVE'S TRAVEL STOPS
& COUNTRY STORES
(commonly referred to as Love's) is an
American family-owned chain of more than
500 truck stop and convenience stores in 41
states in the United States. The company is
privately owned and headquartered in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
www.Loves.com
PILOT TRAVEL CENTERS LLC, doing
business as PILOT FLYING J, is a North
American chain of truck stops in the United
States and Canada. States and Canada. The
company operates truck stops under the Pilot
Travel Centers, Flying J Travel Plaza, and
Mr. Fuel brands (over 750 locations).
www.PilotFlyingJ.com
TRAVELCENTERS OF AMERICA LLC
(Westlake, OH) is the largest publicly traded
full-service travel center company in the USA.
The company operates full service centers,
convenience stores, and restaurants under
the TravelCenters of America, TA, Petro, Petro
Stopping Centers, Minit Mart, and Quaker
Steak & Lube brands.
www.TA-Petro.com
Bowlin Travel Centers (based in Albuquerque,
NM) maintains 10 Travel Centers, 5 full service
Dairy Queen Restaurants and 1 full service
SUBWAY Restaurant in the Southwest. The
stores are located primarily in the U.S. states
of Arizona and New Mexico. Their business
venture actually began in 1912 when Claude
M. Bowlin began trading with the Native
Americans of New Mexico, learning their
languages and customs.
www.bowlintc.com
Founded in 1988, AMBEST is a
Member-owned, nationwide network of
independent truck stops and service centers
(there is a total of 423 locations throughout
America). Each truck has their own unique
identity (their own convenience stores,
restaurants) while all have a combined fuel
card and promotional programs (ex
AmBucks). The corporate offices are in
Brentwood, TN (with seven internal AM-BEST
regional management territories) available to
the membership.
www.Am-Best.com
Sapp Bros., Inc. is a collection of 17
full-service, friendly travel centers; primarily
located on Interstate-80 from as far west as
Salt Lake City, Utah to Clearfield,
Pennsylvania in the east. Sapp Bros. is also a
leading petroleum wholesale distributor with
a robust offering related to refined fuels,
lubricants, oil, propane, diesel exhaust fluid,
compressed natural gas, kerosene, additives,
solvents, and many other associated
products, services, and equipment (first travel
center on June 7, 1971, in Omaha, Nebraska.)
www.SappBros.net
Rutter's is a chain of convenience stores and truck stops with 72 locations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. The first location outside of Pennsylvania opened on May 30, 2018, in Inwood, West Virginia. On January 15, 2019, Rutter's opened its first Maryland location. www.Rutters.com
Road Ranger is a Rockford, Illinois-based chain of travel centers, truck stops, and convenience stores primarily found in the mid-western USA with 39 locations. The first Road Ranger was opened in 1984 in Rockford, Illinois, by Northern Illinois Univ business graduate Daniel "Dan" Arnold. www.RoadRangerUSA.com
Town Pump is a Butte, Montana-based chain of truck stops, convenience stores. The chain has been in services since 1953, founded by Tom and Mary Kenneally. The company would expand into convenience stores in the 1980s, and truck stops, car washes, hotels, quick serves, delis and by the end of the 1990s. www.TownPump.com
The North American Truck Stop Network (based in Knoxville, TN) is a network of Independent Truck Stops across the United States and Canada. NATSN was established in 1988 to provide Independent Truck Stop Operators the opportunity to market to Truck Companies on a nationwide basis. www.NATSN.com
Founded in 1969 by Ross Hutchinson, our first truck stop was in Sayre, Oklahoma. The company is now owned by David and Linda Hutchinson and has grown to consist of 15 Convenience Stores and Truck Stops along with providing bobtail and transport fuel deliveries. www.Hutchs.net
With a long legacy as the founder of the truck stop concept, Bosselman Enterprises (Pump and Pantry) has a mix of truck stops and c-stores in America. In 1971, Chuck Bosselman began a convenience store concept where people could buy gas & groceries, named Pump & Pantry (45 locations). www.pumpandpantry.com
Founded in 1988, with only one travel plaza location, Liberty! and its affiliates are now involved in the operations of over 29 retail travel centers, gas stations and Quick-Service Restaurants. They have convenience stores, Subway, Burger King and Tim Horton's restaurants. They also operate tobacco stores throughout Pennsylvania. www.libertyuniverse.com
Choctaw Travel Plazas (based in Oklahoma) has 17 travel plazas that offers a number of opportunities to the residents in the Southeastern Oklahoma areas (including the Choctaw Nation). Each travel plaza has a convenience store as well as a number of food service options (fast casual, QSR’s and more). www.ChoctawTravelPlazas.com
American Petroleum Inc (owned by Harpreet “Monte” Singh) owns Gallops which operates locations around northern and northeast Indiana, including a similarly castle-themed store in Goshen and another proposed location in Waterloo. They own five locations in the state of Indiana and are apart of the AMBEST system. www.facebook.com/gallopsusa/
Roady’s Truck Stops is the largest chain of independent truck stops in the US. Each year over 10,000,000 truckers and travelers visit a Roady’s and purchase over a billion gallons of fuel across more than 300 retail locations in 38 states. Roady’s was founded in 2007 by Scott Moscrip and Kelly Rhinehart. www.Roadys.com
PTP Stop is a marketing and networking organization for independent truck stops and repair facilities across the United States. We were founded in February 1996 by Burt Newman Sr. Burt's resume includes executive positions at Mid-Continent System, FCS, and he was the first president of AMBEST. www.PTPStop.com
Scrivener Oil Company, Inc., the parent company of SIGNAL Food Stores, was established in 1984 by Richard Scrivener. The first SIGNAL Food Store was opened in the small town of Ava, Missouri. More would soon follow to include a total of eleven stores. www.scriveneroil.com
Stripes Stores is a chain of 700+ convenience stores and truck stops (75 total) in Texas, Lousiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Other c-store brands they operate under include Ice Box and Quick Stuff. It is one of the largest non-refining operators of convenience stores in the United States. www.stripesstores.com
Sunoco LP is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that is a wholesale distributor of motor fuels. It distributes fuel to more than 7,300 Sunoco-branded gas stations, almost all of which are owned and operated by third parties includes a number of Truck Stops (Sunoco Co-op). www.Sunoco.com
The Toot'n Totum (close to 100 stores) story began in 1950 when a young entrepreneurial couple, Eldon "Lefty" and Novie Mitchell established their first convenience store at 15th and Washington, in Amarillo, Texas. At its inception, customers would literally drive up, toot their horns, and the store's clerk would tote the orders outside to the cars. www.tootntotum.com
