Electric at truckstops?

[robertglines1]

I have seen trucks in a Pilot parked next to a white pole plugged up to electric.  a separate area with prob 30 of these.  Is this available to us?  How much? This was brought to mind by the other thread.  Bob

[brando4905]

Bob,

I've wondered the same thing. I've only seen it once, around Sacramento, 49er travel center I think. Man, that would be nice to pull off the road and plug in and not have to worry about finding a campground. But, thats what the genny is for.

Brandon

[luvrbus]

The 2 Pilot's and F/J in the Phoenix area do not allow RV's in that area the snow birds would have that covered, but do allow Hybrid vehicles the price that Shorepower charges for that service you could stay in a park



good luck

[Depewtee]

I could not find anything on pricing...

ShorePower

living diesel : solutions : truck stop electrification

Looks like they have a handful of locations in the northwest and one in North Carolina.

Brian S.

[luvrbus]

22 dollars in Phoenix but we have a 5 min idle law in that county not much the drivers can do but pay or drive to another county and here that can be a 3 hr drive as we only have very few counties in the state had 13 now we have 15


good luck

[Sean]

Here is my write-up on Shorepower:
http://ourodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-on-shorepower.html

Note that, as Clifford says, it is very expensive and you could stay in a lot of RV parks for what they charge, a buck or two an hour (and they want you to pay for as long as you are in that stall).

As I wrote in my blog article, the pedestals have two normal 20-amp outlets, and a 30-amp, four-wire, 208/120 outlet (NEMA 14-30).  In order to use this latter outlet you'd need to make yourself an adapter to convert to a normal RV plug (NEMA 14-50), so without that you're stuck with just 20 amps, 120 volts.  The price is the same per hour no matter which outlet you use.  All the 20-amp outlets are GFI.

We used it when they were first testing it and thus offering it for free.  It worked well and it was nice to have the power.  But it's too pricey for our tastes now.

-Sean
http://OurOdyssey.BlogSpot.com

[robertglines1]

Answers allot of questions and I can see where it is to costly and would be abused. Good Idea though.  Bob.