| Flying J and Pilot Announce Preliminary Merger Agreement |
| Flying J Inc. and Pilot Travel Centers LLC have entered into a preliminary merger agreement that will provide a framework for Flying J's core travel plaza business to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers Sign Exclusive 10-Year Agreement with Pegasus TransTech |
| Pilot Travel Centers LLC announces a 10-year extension to their exclusive agreement with Pegasus TransTech. |
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| CVC Capital Partners Acquires Interest in Pilot; Company Replaces Marathon |
| Pilot Corporation announced that CVC Capital Partners will acquire a 47.5 percent interest in Pilot Travel Centers (PTC). CVC's investment facilitates the sale by Marathon Petroleum Company of its interest in PTC. |
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| Hurricane Update |
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| Pilot Travel Centers Ranks 30th Among Top 100 U.S. Retailers |
| Pilot Travel Centers ranked 30th among the top 100 U.S. retailers in the July issue of STORES magazine, published by the National Retail Federation. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers Enters International Market; Opens Travel Center in Canada |
| Pilot opens its first international location in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada about 45 miles east of Detroit on Canada's Highway 401 at Exit 56. |
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| Pilot Raises $250,000 for 2005 Chick-fil-A Kyle Petty Charity Ride |
| Fund-raising efforts by Pilot and its employees sent Kyle Petty to victory lane. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC named #1 Tennessee company by Business TN Magazine |
| Pilot Travel Centers LLC was named the #1 company in the top 250 companies in the state of Tennessee in the August edition of Business TN Magazine. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC to Open New Travel Center in East St Louis, Ill. |
Knoxville-based Pilot Travel Centers LLC will acquire the Gateway Truck Plaza in East St. Louis, Ill.
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| Rock'N Welcome Bash to Greet 2005 Chick-fil-A Kyle Petty Charity Riders |
| Knoxville rolls out the welcome mat for 2005 Chick-fil-A Kyle Petty charity riders on Saturday, July 30, during the Ribs, Rides 'N Rock welcome party at World's Fair Park. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC honored at Pinnacle Business Awards for community outreach efforts |
| Pilot Travel Centers LLC was presented with the Impact Award at the 2005 Pinnacle Business Awards ceremony for leadership in giving back to the community and outreach efforts that filled a special need in making a far-reaching, long term impact on the lives of others. |
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| Pilot Truck Driver Challenge 2005 |
| Pilot Travel Centers announces the return of the Truck Driver Challenge for 2005. Transport drivers from all the Nextel Cup teams are invited to test their skills for a chance at a grand prize of $50,000. Additionally, the customer with the most Pilot Driver Payback points and a clean, safe driving record at the end of the challenge will also win $50,000. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC to Open New Travel Center in Sturbridge |
| Effective March 8, Knoxville-based Pilot Travel Centers LLC will acquire the Sturbridge Isle Truck Stop in Sturbridge, Mass. |
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| Pilot Employees Dress Down to Help Children |
| The generosity of Pilot employees and their willingness to go casual at the office will benefit sick children, as two "Jeans Day" events at Pilot raised more than $700 for East Tennessee Children's Hospital. |
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| Pilot introduces two new premium blends of coffee; national roll-out promises 'Best coffee on the interstate' |
| Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, the largest independent travel center operator in America, has dramatically improved the interstate coffee experience by introducing two new premium blends: 100% Colombian Coffee and 100% Arabica Dark Roast Coffee. |
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| Nebraska-based Bosselman companies to license two additional travel centers with Pilot Travel Centers LLC |
| Bosselman Companies has signaled intent to use the Pilot Travel Centers brand at two more Bosselman Travel Centers effective Feb. 1, 2005. The two locations that will carry the "Pilot" marks are in Wood River, Nebraska and Altoona, Iowa. |
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC Purchases Two Kentucky Locations |
Pilot Travel Centers LLC has acquired two central-Kentucky travel centers from Davis Brothers Oil, Inc. The two travel centers are located at Lebanon Junction, about 32 miles south of Louisville, and at Sonora, about 55 miles south of Louisville.
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC receives Customer Service Outlook Award |
| Convenience Store Petroleum (CSP) Magazine has named Pilot Travel Centers its national "Excellence In Customer Service" Outlook Award recipient for 2004. CSP selected Pilot after reviewing mystery shopper results gathered by Ritter & Associates Inc. over the past year. Numerous customer service experiences were compared, and Pilot's locations were chosen over locations from 10 other industry leading chains. |
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| Bosselman Companies to License Four of Its Travel Centers with Pilot Travel Centers |
Today, Nebraska-based Bosselman Companies enters into a license agreement with the Knoxville, Tenn.-based Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, signaling the intent to rebrand four Bosselman Travel Centers in Nebraska and Kansas as Pilot Travel Centers.
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| Pilot Truck Challenge |
Pilot Travel Centers announced Pilot Truck Driver Challenge 2004, a new program highlighting the most talented, hard working and dedicated drivers in the NEXTEL CUP garage, the transport drivers.
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| Pilot, IdleAire Sign Agreement for Nationwide ATE Installation |
Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, the largest interstate travel center operation in the nation, and IdleAire Technologies Corporation, the national leader in Advanced Travel Center Electrification (ATE), have signed an exclusive long-term agreement allowing installation of IdleAire technology in the truck parking lots of every current and future Pilot-owned travel center across the nation.
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| Pilot Travel Centers LLC Signs Agreement To Buy 60 Travel Centers from Williams TravelCenters Inc. |
Pilot Travel Centers LLC announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase 60 retail travel centers from Williams TravelCenters, Inc., including fuel inventory, merchandise and supplies.
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| Pilot and TripPak EXPRESS Reconcile |
Pilot Travel Centers and Truckload Management, Inc. (“TMI”) the parent company of TripPak EXPRESS and TripPak ONLINE document management services have reached an agreement which resolves issues between the two companies.
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| Pilot Travel Centers and Pegasus TransTech to Offer TRANSFLO ExpressTM System |
Pilot Travel Centers, LLC, and Pegasus TransTech announced today the TRANSFLO ExpressTM document scanning services will be offered at the fuel desks of Pilot’s Travel Centers beginning this month.
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| MAP and Pilot Finalize Travel Center Joint Venture |
Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC
(MAP), through its wholly owned retail unit Speedway SuperAmerica LLC (SSA),
and Pilot Corporation today closed the transaction that formally creates Pilot
Travel Centers LLC. The companies announced on March 15, 2001, that they had
signed a letter of intent to combine their travel center operations.
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