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This is how truck stop coffee gets to the truck stop.  It's delivered in bulk.

Every truck stop has a 5,000 gallon underground coffee tank.  The filler port for the underground tank is outside amongst the gasoline ports for the different octanes and grades.  The coffee port is not marked, so the gasoline truckers don't mistakenly put gas in there.  If you go to the truck stop, you can locate the coffee port.  It's the one that's not marked.

They have an electric pump behind the food counter at the truck stop that pumps the coffee straight into the coffee pot on demand.  This is all a big secret, so don't share it.  I shouldn't be posting it.

A load of coffee this size (in the photo) will last the typical truck stop about 8 months, so you don't see many of these trucks running down the interstate.  I was SO lucky to photograph this one on my way to Pittsburgh.  There are so very few of these tankers on the road.  Please, don't share this with anyone.  This is a rare photo.  But this is how truck stop coffee is delivered. (Viewer comments below the photo.)

Mitch sent this email a few days after the posting:

OMG I was leaving work Friday and when I pulled onto I-285 There in plain
site was one of these trucks... I called Rachel and said OMG they do exist.
Then I told her the story.. she laughed...

I sent back:

Well, see there?  I've got a lot of tampered photos on the site, labeled as such, but I'm not about to tamper a photo and put the weeville watermark on it.  And if I write a news story to go along with an un-tampered photo, you can bank on it.  There it is.  True story.