re: LA DOTD Agrees to Stop Stonewalling Ruston Buc-ees

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I thought I read somewhere that their goal is to have a location every 100-150 miles along I-10. They have one at Baldwin Beach Express. They are putting one at the Menge exit near Gulfport. Working your way west, the next would be Baton Rouge/Denham/Walker (maybe even Hammond since you have I-55 and I-12) then Lake Charles as the next one that is open is in Baytown TX. That would make them all 100-150 miles apart.

I could be wrong though

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You are not wrong.

They have done research that especially during the day, most families need to stop after 2-2.5 hrs of driving for snacks and for the kids to pee. Thats about 150 miles or so depenidng on traffic conditions.

Any closer than that, they run the risk of the stores stealing business from each other.

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JBE was willing to blow the entire thing up over the design of the frontage road

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When the state has absolute control over so many things, they see no reason to have to negotiate.

Big reason why we need a complete rebuild of our government system to return power back to the parishes and cities.

DOT. That's all we need to know.

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Stop Stonewalling

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How much $ did it take ?

The Millerville Bucees was coming. It was set to be the first Bucees outside of Texas.

But then they were notified that most of their meat products they use in their sandwiches as well as their jerky was not federally inspected (by the federal arm of the USDA). The companies they used to process the meat were inspected by the state arm of the USDA, so their meat products could not leave Texas.

They immediately sent letters to their suppliers telling them they had to get federally inspected or they would lose the business. It took these companies some time to make the switch, Buccees couldn't guarantee the meat would be good to go by the time Millerville was built.

At the same exact time, the BR flood happened and they had the opportunity to cut the project out alltogeher before spending their money or to procede not knowing about the flooding and not knowing when their meat would be able to ship outside of Texas. So they cut the project as quickly as they could and regrouped. The I10 Alabama Bucees was built instead and we all know how crazy busy that one is, so they made a good choice.




If you didn't know, the guy who started Bucees went on a road trip with his wife to Florida. His wife, having to use the bathroom on the trip (the story is told that she was on some medication that made her have to stop a lot, but not sure if that's true), always complained about the bathrooms at the gas stations. The guy said he wanted to build gas stations with the cleanest bathrooms, the kind of gas station people WANT to stop at. His dream was to build them from Texas to Florida. It's a great story.

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If you think Buc-ees won't be embracing charging stations, you are blind. People will stop and charge, shop for a bit, eat, then be on their way

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Amazingly, Bucees has no tables for you to eat. This is by design to keep it clean and to keep people from loitering.
Same reason they have a strict no truckers policy.

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Palms [not wanting to be greased by Buc-ee’s] dry

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FIFY.

Same thing happened with that mongoloid (edwards) and his cronies a few years ago when there was an attempt to build a Buc-ee's around Denham Springs.

Buc-ee’s ain’t greasing nobody’s palms because they don’t need to. I can promise you that.

You can stop the embarrassment because the North Shore area will never see one. Anything east of the Mississippi River will not see one. They had their chance years ago and blew it with the last minute demands from the local property owners and Buc-ee’s said all that.

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I thought I read somewhere that their goal is to have a location every 100-150 miles along I-10. They have one at Baldwin Beach Express. They are putting one at the Menge exit near Gulfport. Working your way west, the next would be Baton Rouge/Denham/Walker (maybe even Hammond since you have I-55 and I-12) then Lake Charles as the next one that is open is in Baytown TX. That would make them all 100-150 miles apart.

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They’ll do that distance mainly/only within Texas. Other states, not so much. There could be multiple locations per state but Texas is where they may put them closer together.