What is "truckstops"

Usage examples of "truckstops".

Towns like truckstops punctuated some fallow farmland and a few plowed fields.

In the spring Matt had hitchhiked across the top of the country from Ohio to Seattle, catching rides sometimes from people and sometimes from friendly trucks, who opened their back doors to her at truckstops and let her out at other truckstops when they were about to turn away from her route.