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Similar story here. My brother drives the I-40 route from West Texas to Arizona. He had a short stint doing City of Industry to Stockton. Hated every second of driving through LA, Grapevine and anywhere north of Bakersfield. Food choices are pretty much the same considering you can't venture far off the interstate and its rare that there's anything good _right_ off the five.

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After my 3rd LA delivery, I didn’t think it was that bad. But I also didn’t drive during rush hour.

Grapevine sucks big time on a heavy load. Siskiyous can be scary when you are super green. Cabbage over in Oregon, first downhill route, oh god, I nearly shit myself because the fog... I’m sorry, the clouds because you’re so damn high up, came in, at night.

Maybe this is a startup opportunity, take food from local restaurants and rendezvous it in bulk at truck stops.

That's interesting idea, but it'd be very challenging to scale. Most rural towns have far fewer restaurants compared to cities, and of those restaurants, a significant portion serve food that's not sufficiently different/better from gas station food to justify paying a premium for it. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to create an app that lets truckers queue up an order ahead of time - but even if you did, you're ultimately catering to a dying market/industry that'll inevitably disappear sooner rather than later.

You'd better research how many truckers would be able to afford it first.

Thank you.

Got to love folks who think a "startup" can save the world when they have no clue how the real world works. They totally missed the fact that truckers earn peanuts. So add more cost on top of a meal they can't really afford to begin with? Maybe an iPhone app can help truckers? Totally save the poor with iPhone apps. That's an idea...lol.

Truckers can make extra money delivering meals to other truckers.

Ubereats for Truckers! Genius!

Don't worry, we'll just launch it in San Francisco market first while we build out the technology and raise funds, we'll scale it up everywhere else later!

We'll raise some Xmillions seed round and if this doesn't work out, we can always pivot :p

The biggest startup opportunity is in truck parking. Learn about it. There is money there for anybody with a tenable solution.

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