When the TTT Truck Terminal moved to its new location at Craycroft Road and Interstate 10 in 1966, it was considered state of the art. It featured overnight accommodations for men and women, a laundry, a clothing store, a restaurant, showers, a barber shop, a post office and an ice plant. It took 59 employees to operate the Triple T 24 hours a day.
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Throwback Thursday: Tucson's Triple T truck stop opens in new spot
Plenty of ash trays and phone booths within reach of this happy customer at the TTT Truck Terminal at Craycroft Road and Benson Highway in Tucson in June, 1966.
Tucson’s iconic TTT Truck Terminal opened in 1954, but it moved a mile east to its current location on 22-acres at Craycroft Road along Interstate 10 in 1966. When the new location opened, it was hailed as one of the largest and most modern truck stops west of the Mississippi. It was built for $700,000.
It took 59 employees to operate the station 24 hours a day. It included overnight accommodations for men and women, a laundry, a clothing store, a restaurant, showers, a barber shop, post office and an ice plant to re-supply cross-country trucks carrying perishable cargo.
In 1966, owner Ira Morris told a reporter that the TTT saw about 30 women truck drivers a week. “There’s one little gal about 115 pounds,” he said, “and the drivers claim she is as good as any man in the country.”
When Morris opened the original TTT in 1954, he had three employees including himself. “I had to lay off the other men for a spell and I ran it myself,” Morris said. “Some days I worked around the clock.”
Tucson's iconic TTT Truck Terminal, born in 1954, moved a mile east to its current location on 22-acres in 1966. When opened, it was hailed as…
