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That is why, in Europe and Africa, I follow a simple rule for choosing facilities on highways: do they have many trucker customers? If they do, that usually means they are professionally managed, clean and food is good and plentiful.


This is universal. Eat where the truckers eat was passed on to me by my father in the US decades ago.


I do this on road trips in the continental US as well. I figure it's for the same reason that I use gaming hardware for office work: if you want to be comfortable, pick what is chosen by those who are doing it for uncounted hours.


This doesn't make any sense......gaming hardware for office work sucks and I used to be an avid gamer. Gaming chairs are garbage. Gaming keyboards do not have much ergonomics in mind, there are much better and comfortable options from logitech and microsoft but they don't light up like a Christmas tree. Gaming mice have many buttons and DPI switches and logitech mx master is much more comfortable than any gaming mouse I used over the years.

If you want to be comfortable you need to research and be willing to drop $1000+ on a chair and peripherals.


Funny enough, I've never gotten on with ergonomic mice/keyboards. Switching from Logitech to mechanical some years ago made wrist pain go away and it never came back.

I agree that many buttons (which appears to be mostly mice intended for MOBAs or MMORPGs) is not good. My current desktop mouse is a Corsair Glaive (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/glaive-rgb-gaming-mouse) which has a very normal button set.


Well, TIL.

And here I was thinking those facilities are popular with truckers because they have the cheapest diesel/petrol.


A lot of trucks run company cards for fuel. So slightly cheaper fuel isn't a differentiator.

Better food, showers, and restrooms are. ;)


Company pays for gas often right? So that isnt even a factor for many.




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