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Love's Connect 4+

Love's travel stops & country stores, inc..

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• 3.7 • 4.4K Ratings

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Find your favorite Love's Travel Stops, check your My Love Rewards account, secure the next shower with Mobile Shower Check In, activate commercial fuel pumps with Love's Mobile Pay, view transaction and loyalty receipts, map your route, view real-time fuel prices, request Truck Tire Care roadside assistance, and connect with our customer service team using the Love's Connect mobile app. It's the ultimate travel app for professional drivers and your mobile guide to our more than 600 Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores and Speedco locations. Location, Location, Location No matter where you are in the country, Love's Connect finds the nearest truck stop, country store, or Speedco location based on your location, city, state, or zip code. Also, view distances in road miles, and in just a few more taps, get driving directions too. You can search by highway, on-site restaurants, fuel type, shower facilities, and other store amenities. Professional Driver Rewards The more you fuel, the more you earn. Check your My Love Rewards points, quickly access your My Love Rewards digital card via the in-app barcode and view your free shower and drink refill credits. View & Share Digital Receipts Receive digital receipts for all Pay at the Pump, In-Store, and Mobile Pay transactions within minutes of your purchase. All you have to do is scan your My Love Rewards card with every transaction. Mobile Shower Check-In Bypass the fuel desk with shower check-in at your favorite Love's Travel Stop with showers. First, be onsite at a location with showers. Then, tap the blue "Shower Check In" button on the Home or Store Details screen. Once your location has been confirmed, complete the transaction with your My Love Rewards points, credits, or Apple Pay. You can also plan ahead by checking busy times at other locations. Love's Mobile Pay for Commercial Drivers Activate the pump from the comfort and safety of your cab with Love's Pay. Select your pump and fuel, and then answer the prompts as you do at the pump today. Once authorized, lift the nozzle and fuel. You may also add and manage commercial fuel cards in your wallet, as well as view and share transaction and loyalty receipts. Mobile Deals Take advantage of our always new mobile deals. Deals are categorized by the type of food or drink you may be craving on the road. By using the Deals Barcode you get quick and easy redemption of our mobile deals. Real-Time Fuel Prices Love's Connect features real-time fuel prices for every single one of our travel stops. Watch fuel prices along your planned route to help you make better fueling decisions along the way. Love's Services We offer indispensable solutions that keep you and your truck running a peak performance. Connect with Truck Tire Care centers or request roadside assistance, as well as get started with TirePass in-lane tire inflation and assessment services, Love's Express billing program details, or Love's Financial freight factoring. Clean Places & Friendly Faces At Love's, we know your time is valuable. We want to know when we have done a great job and when we haven't. Use our feedback section to help us improve your Love's experience.

Version 12.0

Introducing our latest update for Love's Connect:   * Track your bonus offers progress, ensuring you never miss out on exciting rewards. * Utilize convenient iOS shortcuts and lock screen widgets for Shower Check-in, Love's Pay, and Loyalty Information for quicker access to Love’s offerings that matter to you. * Enjoy improved accessibility with dynamic text enhancements, ensuring a seamless experience for everyone. * Receive timely reminders when your points are about to expire, so you can make the most of your rewards. * Benefit from security and payment enhancements for added peace of mind.   Stay tuned for more exciting updates to enhance your journey!

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4.4K Ratings

Great but needs improvement

Overall I have virtually no complaints. It does what it sets out to do for truckers to make things easier while on the road and in the store. That being said the app has one MAJOR issue that should be a priority in fixing. The app doesn’t seem to have full support in push notifications for showers. Several times I’m been waiting in que for the shower and while I’m doing something else I’ll get a notification that the shower expired, but no notification before that my shower was ready???? This is getting annoying. Most times it’s not an inconvenience but the times that it’s late or there’s 7+ guys ahead of me the first time I was in line it’s gets infuriating pretty quickly. LOVES please fix this issue.

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Thanks for reaching out. We want to troubleshoot this crash with you, but we'll need some more information. Please email us at [email protected] and request they send on to the Love's Connect mobile app team. We'll work through how to get you up and running with the app.

Doesn’t Work

First you broke the login system on the app where my login worked just fine to where I had to sign in with my card and pin, which the app refuses to allow and tells me to call customer service as though they can fix what the developers broke. Second, you precede to brake the website as well, so now you won’t let me login to either the site or the app. Why can’t just use our email addresses and passwords as at least an option to login instead like normal people using a normal app or website providing a normal service. What the heck? I’ve already complained about this several times with you blocking my card and pin from being able to login to your broken app, then you break the website too. Now I’m running blind without knowing if I have points or shower credits. Loves, please fire these fresh out of app boot camp millennials and hire real, experienced developers to fix what they’ve broken. I can’t even use your service anymore. This has been going on for far too long. I’m very disappointed in Love’s upper management’s lack of over-site into what the tech department keeps breaking.

We appreciate your feedback, Scott. The app update introduced new pay features, which required a more secure sign in process. You may select "Sign In" from the Home screen and then tap “I don’t have a PIN,” which guides you through signing in with your email and password. If this doesn't help, we’re happy to assist with any additional issues you are encountering. You can reach our Support Team at [email protected].

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We have just started traveling in our camper van and have discovered Love’s as newbies. We have stopped at about 8 travel centers and overnighted at 3 that have RV facilities. We have found them to be universally clean as can be, the staff friendly and helpful and the showers are spotless. The sites had good water pressure, electric and one even had sewer hookup. As for the app, it needs to be enhanced to support the RV parks better. My suggestions: 1) add a section where I can find my past and upcoming visits, 2) allow me to reserve showers for more than just myself, so I can make shower reservations for both of at the same time, 3) add a place where I could see what is available in a travel center store, so we know what is there, especially regarding things like tools and other RV equipment.

Thanks for sharing your feedback! We'll look into incorporating RV support in our app based on your suggestions. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any additional suggestions or need assistance.

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Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is extending National Truck Driver Appreciation Week with exclusive offers for drivers throughout September. All month, professional drivers can visit Love’s travel stops to redeem offers through its loyalty program, My Love Rewards, and on the Love’s Connect app .

• Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores is  No. 16  on CSP’s  2024 Top 202  ranking of U.S. convenience-store chains by store count.

Starting Sept. 1, My Love Rewards members will receive an email with available offers. They can activate mobile deals with a single tap in the email or in the deals section of the Love’s Connect app.

Extra savings, rewards and points include:

• Earn double My Love Rewards points on any in-store merchandise purchase in September by adding the Mobile Deal to a My Love Rewards card.
• Get a Premium Bundle truck wash at the Deluxe Bundle price by adding the Mobile Deal to a My Love Rewards card.
• Free driver appreciation hat with the purchase of three packs of gloves.
• Free Traverse Pro Series hat with the purchase of a Traverse Travel Gear seat cushion or Traverse Pro Series flashlight.
• Weekly discounts on various food items through the My Love Rewards card or Love's Connect App.
• $10 back in My Love Rewards points on any oil and professional maintenance purchase.

My Love Rewards members always provide drivers free fountain drink refills and showers with any commercial diesel fuel fill of 50 gallons or more.

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week is an annual, nationwide celebration launched by the American Trucking Associations in 1988 to recognize and honor the contributions of truck drivers to people’s daily lives and the economy, according to the ATA’s website . It takes place this year from Sept. 15-21.

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Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is an American family-owned chain of more than 500 truck stops and convenience stores in 41 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Love’s ranked No. 17 on the 2019 Forbes list of America’s largest private companies.

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10601 N Pennsylvania Ave, The Village,

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Tom Love  Chief Executive Officer, Director

Tom Love is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Love’s. As the founder and CEO, he has been instrumental in building and growing the company, leading its strategic vision and ensuring it remains a leader in the travel stop industry.

Shane Wharton  President

Shane Wharton serves as the President of Love’s. He oversees the company’s day-to-day operations, corporate strategy, and performance, focusing on enhancing service offerings and operational efficiency.

JP Fjeld-Hansen  Executive Vice President – Musket

JP Fjeld-Hansen is the Executive Vice President of Musket, a division of Love’s. He manages the operations and strategic direction of Musket, which is involved in commodity trading and logistics, ensuring effective supply chain and distribution processes.

Eddie Burt  Chief Supply Chain Officer

Eddie Burt serves as the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Love’s. He is responsible for overseeing the supply chain operations, ensuring efficient procurement, logistics, and distribution to maintain optimal inventory levels and meet customer demands.

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Loves travel stop #450 Very disrespectful and rude employee at that location Cashier named Kim. Please have someone one speak to her about her attitude and the way she speak to people. I personally will not stop at this location again

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Your store is the worst. You have a few employee that do there job. The other employees call off all the time and yell at other employees. Your gm won’t do a damn thing about it. You are literally tearing family apart because your employee is way over worked that shows up and so stressed out. If I lose my family because you won’t do anything about your store there going to be problem. Your gm need to get his shit together and do his damn job. When people call off he needs to be in there helping that is part of being a gm. He need to fire people that call off every shift. He needs to hire people. He need to do his job. Can’t go above him because the person above him is his best friend and they cover for each other because they both came from polit. Do something now before things get worse and you have no employee to work at all as you are already working with like 4 people.

April Clore

I would love to talk to someone about opening a haircut shop in your stores

Arianna Pertile

#Store843 Came in today and was greeted with a smile. This location was very clean and busy but, still had lots to choose from in hot food. I didnt have to wait long to check out , the ladies at the till were quick and friendly. It’s nice to see employees happy at their job.

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Keep on trucking: how love's travel stop went from one location to a global giant.

WATONGA, Okla. – Harold Wells, 73, has worked for Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores for 51 years, an entire career, after starting out here in one of the late Tom Love's earliest stores.

Al Harper, 70, is still here in Watonga, where he grew up and where he's worked for 24 years in Love's No. 1, the first of what is now nearly 650 Love's Travel Stops and convenience stores catering to casual drivers and professional truckers in 42 states. The company has about 40,000 employees.

Over those decades, Wells and Harper have demonstrated, actually lived out what Love's points to for its success: "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance."

The Love family, and the family-owned corporation, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, say those aspects of the company's culture – humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance – have guided its growth since Tom and Judy Love started out in 1964.

Judy Love doesn't say much to the media, but in light of Love's 60th anniversary, she told The Oklahoman:

"When Tom and I opened the first location in Watonga 60 years ago, we couldn’t imagine what this company would become. The journey has been amazing. One thing I know is that we wouldn’t be here without our loyal team members and customers. We are fortunate so I feel that we should help others. That’s why we’ve always given back to many nonprofit organizations."

Dedication and innovation keep longtime Love's employees at work for decades

Harper said a manager at Love's No. 1 recruited him to take the night shift in 2001, when shoplifters and others were causing the store trouble. It was his second career after 27 years working at a carpet mill until it closed. He said he "got it cleaned up," and has been happy working there ever since.

"I like meeting the people. I told (a supervisor), 'I'll stay here and keep the store going as long as I can,'" the 70-year-old said.

Wells started at Love's in Watonga part time in 1972, when he was working on degrees in math and physics at Southwestern State College in Weatherford, just before it was renamed Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He graduated but stayed with Love's, never looking back.

Wells is Love's manager of retail accounting systems and has lived in Edmond and worked at company headquarters – at suburban 10601 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in The Village – for decades. He said every innovation Love's has made over the years has given him something new and exciting to learn. He could have retired 10 years ago, but he's kept at it.

"It's easy to work for a company and believe in what you do," he said, when the company has a reputation like Love's.

Love's Field: A reminder that roots and reputation helped bring the big-hearted Loves big riches

Roots and reputation helped make Love's a top workplace, and helped make the Loves generous billionaires, giving to causes across the state, not just in Oklahoma City.

Love's Travel Stops had $26.5 billion in revenue last year, according to Forbes, making it the ninth-largest private company in the country. Judy Love had a net worth of $10.2 billion, landing her at No. 2 on USA Today's list of "America's richest self-made women."

Symbols abound for "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance." Add benevolence, and the symbol Jenny Love Meyer keeps in her office makes sense. She's a daughter of Tom and Judy Love, and Love's chief culture officer.

The reminder of what it took to get the family and company where they are? A softball trophy, but a replica, making it a reminder of a reminder:

Love's Field, which opened this year . Love's contributed the lead gift of the $37 million that helped pay for the $48 million field and stadium, earning it naming rights. The trophy is a reproduction of the University of Oklahoma Sooners’ 2023 NCAA championship softball trophy.

“This 44,000 square-foot complex is a nod to Coach (Patty) Gasso and all those who have been instrumental to building the Oklahoma softball dynasty and hopefully an inspiration for the female student-athletes who compete in it. They are our leaders of the future,” Love Meyer said. “Love’s is humbled to stand alongside the more than 1,100 donors who graciously supported this project. The $37 million raised is the largest dollar amount privately fundraised for a female-specific facility project in college athletics history.”

Parallels between Love's No. 1 in Watonga and Love's Field in Norman

Raising Love's Field took years and "a village of dedicated people to complete," Love Meyer said. She said she sees parallels to her parents' success after their beginnings in Watonga and Gasso's success after 30 years of "building a softball powerhouse in Norman, Oklahoma."

“With little money to invest and a growing family to support, my parents used a $5,000 loan to lease an abandoned service station in Watonga, a small community 60 miles west of Oklahoma City," she said. "That initial willingness to start and grow a business required confidence, innovative thinking, hard work and perseverance, and is why Love’s is where it is today.

"Similarly, when Coach Gasso arrived in Norman in 1994, she organized practices at a local park and needed to schedule practice in between slow pitch softball leagues. And sometimes had to clean up the dugout from festivities the night before.

"She never gave up. From former OU Associate Athletic Director Marita Hynes, Coach Gasso, softball alumni, to current players, and the university, they persevered through all the challenges. That championship mindset is how success is built.”

How Love's started: Tom and Judy Love 'had two small children to feed and bills to pay'

Nobody in the Love family, or among the earliest employees, could have dreamed that Love's, first called Musket Corp., would ever become such a retail juggernaut, with locations popping up along interstate highways like spring dandelions – plus several other ventures catering to, and supporting, the trucking industry, everyday travelers, and fuel supply chain management.

“When my parents opened our first location 60 years ago, they never imagined what Love’s would grow into," Love Meyer said. "They had two small children to feed and bills to pay and had to figure out a way to do that. My dad had the idea to lease an abandoned filling station, and through hard work, finding ways to learn about the business and, as he would say, working with and hiring people smarter than him, they grew it into what it is today.

"We attribute our success to our team members and customers. They’ve helped us grow into what we are today while remaining true to the family-owned and -operated business model that we know sets us apart from competitors. We always say that if our teams take care of customers, we’ll take care of them, and we think that’s been a pretty good standard to live by.”

Love's rolls both ways, with professional drivers and casual customers

If you're a professional truck driver, Love's is a truck stop. If you're not, Love's is a convenience store with fast food. Chances are, trucker or not, you don't know what all drives the family-owned company.

Love's rolls both ways, of course. Two-thirds of fuel sales are to professional drivers, and two-thirds of in-store sales are to casual customers, the company says. But Love's business is more than gasoline, diesel, and road trip snacks and fast food.

This year, the company plans to add up to 25 new locations, update up to 40 older stores, and rebuild four, among other company expansions, said Shane Wharton, Love's president.

“Six decades ago, (the late) Tom Love opened our first service station in Watonga, Oklahoma, and almost immediately started selling household items to make stopping in more convenient for customers,” Wharton said. “Today, as the only major travel stop that is still family owned and operated, we continue with his innovative spirit by adding new products and improving the experience to give customers more reasons to stop in.”

Four generations of Loves are involved with the company, including billionaire co-founder Judy Love . But numerous others have helped build Love's since 1964, Love-Meyer said.

“While a lot has changed ... the heart of Love’s has not," she said. “We are so grateful for our incredible team members – past and present – whose contributions play a role in shaping our company.

"Growth and innovation of our product offerings, living our core values and culture daily, and dedication to clean places, friendly faces are what this company was started on in 1964. Today, we proudly stand on that foundation and know our best is still ahead of us.”

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Love's went on a buying spree in 2023, its biggest year for mergers and acquisitions.

The company acquired EZ GO from Lawton-based Carey Johnson Oil Co., including six travel stops on Oklahoma turnpikes, five on the Kansas turnpike and 11 convenience stores in Oklahoma and Nebraska.

EZ GO, like Love's, features franchise food and owns and operates Back Forty Barbecue at two locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Houston-based Musket Corp., owned by Love's, established European operations with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Musket's focus is supplying Love’s Travel Stops with gasoline and diesel and managing the company’s biodiesel program. Subsidiary Musket Europe SARL extends the company's commodity supply and logistics, providing relief for the instability in global fuel supply chains.

Love's also bought OKC-based TVC Pro-Driver, a motor club and commercial driver’s license protection service. It assists drivers and fleets in reducing or dismissing fines, preventing downtime for court, and protecting federal compliance, safety and accountability scores. A subscription provides access to a network of attorneys and discounts on safety solutions, health care and more. Terms were not disclosed.

Love's continues to expand and enhance services for drivers – professional and casual.

Through awards from the Federal Highway Administration's National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program , Love's-owned Trillium Energy Solutions , which Love's acquired in 2016, plans to add to Love’s electric vehicle fast-charging network with new chargers at 29 locations this year.

For truckers driving Freightliners, which Love's said accounts for about half all trucks on the road, Freightliner ExpressPoint is now available at more than 400 Love’s truck care locations, providing light mechanical warranty repair work for Freightliner trucks through Love’s partnership with Daimler Truck North America. Love's rolled out the service in January and plans to expand it this year.

Love's plans 10 new full-service Speedco locations next to its travel stops, 50 maintenance bays and and about 60 emergency roadside vehicles. Love's has owned Speedco since 2017.

Love family philanthropy seen across Oklahoma, elsewhere

Love's donates 2% of net profits to charity and good causes.

"Many know the story of Love’s ..." Love Meyer said last year in Love's first-ever Community Impact Report. "And from those humble roots, he built a family-owned and -operated network of travel stops now approaching 700 locations.

"But it’s important to know that from the start, as he built the business, he cared about the communities where the stores were located. It is this caring, combined with a desire to give back, that is the foundation for charitable giving at Love’s. This is certainly one of the legacies my dad left with us. ... Helping others is nothing new for Love’s."

This year, in addition to the debut of Love’s Field, the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Expedition Africa and completely renovated Love's Pachyderm Building opened, the new Women’s Center at Mercy Hospital opened, and Love's Planetarium at Science Museum Oklahoma is scheduled to open.

"Our efforts are certainly not limited to Oklahoma and include building meaningful partnerships to transform communities nationwide," Love Meyer said.

Love's gave away nearly $12 million in 2022, according its 2023 Community Impact Report – 46% to youths and education, 20% to health and human services, 25% to civic and community organizations, and 9% to other needs. Recipients included:

$6.9 million to Children's Miracle Network, which has received nearly $50 million in all from Love's.

$3.5 million to Science Museum Oklahoma/Love's Planeterium.

$150,000 to Operation Homefront.

$100,000 to St. Christopher Trucking Development and Relief Fund.

$50,000 to Truckers Against Trafficking.

In addition, Love's corporate employees donated $676,000 to United Way of Central Oklahoma and 1,400 volunteer hours to various causes.

Judy Love, as matriarch, has led the way in the Love family's giving.

Recipients include Positive Tomorrows, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, the University of Oklahoma , Oklahoma State University, Children’s Miracle Network and United Way, as well as out-of-state organizations and groups.

All that giving, and all that innovation, have kept the Loves' reputation growing, and Love's competitive and growing, for 60 years.

“As Love's has expanded its network and offerings over the past 60 years, we’ve been able to stay true to who we are and what we represent, clean places with friendly faces who work hard every day to get customers back on the road quickly," Love Meyer said. "The dedication to helping our customers every day, while innovating and striving to be better, is foundational for Love’s, from our leaders to team members across the nation.”

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What you may not know about Love's truck stops

Here are some things you might not know about Love's, and some more of what the company says to expect in 2024.

Love’s is growing its Fresh Kitchen concept after customer feedback, offering fresh, healthier and diet-specific food options, including a new omelet bowl, upgraded snack trays, improved mac and cheese bowls, and other items.

Love's, a top 10 restaurant operator in the U.S., with quick-service offerings from Arby's to McDonald's to Wendy's, will add 20 restaurants this year.

Love’s will keep expanding its own branded food and snacks including new chip flavors, meat sticks, honey buns, powdered doughnuts and cookies.

Love's will add RV hookups at 44 locations, ending 2024 with 1,500 hookups at 98 locations, and will double its number of truck washes by adding seven, for professional drivers and RV'ers.

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Love’s Travel Stops to install charging infrastructure in the USA

Love’s Travel Stops has announced plans to install EV charging stations at its rest stops across the US. The funding is coming from the NEVI grant.

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The first such EV charging stations were recently installed at its New York stores in Ripley and Waterloo. Each location will feature two dual port 160 KW Level 3 DC fast charging stations. AC chargers are also available at Love’s locations.

The company has specified that the groundbreaking on the next four NEVI-funded charging stations will kick off this year in Pennsylvania, and another four will also be installed in Kentucky. In addition, Love’s Travel writes: “All new Love’s Travel Stops will have space for EV chargers allocated to be able to quickly partner with local utility companies to install EV charging stations should there be customer demand.”

Currently, Love’s charging network has over 100 EV charging stations installed at 28 stores in 11 states. In 2025, the company has big plans to expand its network across a number of US states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.

“Love’s is honored to play a critical role in actively shaping and building out the fast-charging electric vehicle network across the nation,” said Shane Wharton, Love’s president. “Expanding the EV charging network is not new to us as we first started in the EV space in 2017 and have continued to grow the network. We now offer more than 100 chargers at 28 stores in 11 states. These future EV investments reinforce our commitment to meeting customers’ needs regardless of fuel type.”

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Keep on trucking: How Love's Travel Stop grew from one store to an international empire

W ATONGA — Harold Wells, 73, has worked for Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores for 51 years, an entire career, after starting out here in one of the late Tom Love's earliest stores.

Al Harper, 70, is still here in Watonga, where he grew up and where he's worked for 24 years in Love's No. 1, the first of what is now nearly 650 Love's Travel Stops and convenience stores catering to casual drivers and professional truckers in 42 states. The company has about 40,000 employees.

Over those decades, Wells and Harper have demonstrated, actually lived out what Love's points to for its success: "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance."

The Love family, and the family-owned corporation, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, say those aspects of the company's culture — humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance — have guided its growth since Tom and Judy Love started out in 1964.

Judy Love doesn't say much to the media, but in light of Love's 60th anniversary, she told The Oklahoman:

"When Tom and I opened the first location in Watonga 60 years ago, we couldn’t imagine what this company would become. The journey has been amazing. One thing I know is that we wouldn’t be here without our loyal team members and customers. We are fortunate so I feel that we should help others. That’s why we’ve always given back to many nonprofit organizations."

Dedication and innovation keep longtime Love's employees at work for decades at Love's No 1 in Watonga and at OKC corporate headquarters

Harper said a manager at Love's No. 1 recruited him to take the night shift in 2001, when shoplifters and others were causing the store trouble. It was his second career after 27 years working at a carpet mill until it closed. He said he "got it cleaned up," and has been happy working there ever since.

"I like meeting the people. I told (a supervisor), 'I'll stay here and keep the store going as long as I can,'" the 70-year-old said.

Wells started at Love's in Watonga part time in 1972, when he was working on degrees in math and physics at Southwestern State College in Weatherford, just before it was renamed Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He graduated but stayed with Love's, never looking back.

Wells is Love's manager of retail accounting systems and has lived in Edmond and worked at company headquarters — at suburban 10601 N Pennsylvania Ave. in The Village — for decades. He said every innovation Love's has made over the years has given him something new and exciting to learn. He could have retired 10 years ago, but he's kept at it.

"It's easy to work for a company and believe in what you do," he said, when the company has a reputation like Love's.

Love's Field: A reminder that roots and reputation helped bring the big-hearted Loves big riches

Roots and reputation helped make Love's a top workplace, and helped make the Loves generous billionaires, giving to causes across the state, not just in Oklahoma City.

Love's Travel Stops had $26.5 billion in revenue last year, according to Forbes, making it the ninth-largest private company in the country. Judy Love had a net worth of $10.2 billion, landing her at No. 2 on USA Today's list of "America's richest self-made women."

Symbols abound for "humble beginnings, teamwork, work ethic and perseverance." Add benevolence, and the symbol Jenny Love Meyer keeps in her office makes sense. She's a daughter of Tom and Judy Love, and Love's chief culture officer.

The reminder of what it took to get the family and company where they are? A softball trophy, but a replica, making it a reminder of a reminder:

Love's Field, which opened this year . Love's contributed the lead gift of the $37 million that helped pay for the $48 million field and stadium, earning it naming rights. The trophy is a reproduction of the University of Oklahoma Sooners’ 2023 NCAA championship softball trophy.

“This 44,000 square-foot complex is a nod to Coach (Patty) Gasso and all those who have been instrumental to building the Oklahoma softball dynasty and hopefully an inspiration for the female student-athletes who compete in it. They are our leaders of the future,” Love Meyer said. “Love’s is humbled to stand alongside the more than 1,100 donors who graciously supported this project. The $37 million raised is the largest dollar amount privately fundraised for a female-specific facility project in college athletics history.”

Parallels between Love's No. 1 in Watonga and Love's Field in Norman

Raising Love's Field took years and "a village of dedicated people to complete," Love Meyer said. She said she sees parallels to her parents' success after their beginnings in Watonga and Gasso's success after 30 years of "building a softball powerhouse in Norman, Oklahoma."

“With little money to invest and a growing family to support, my parents used a $5,000 loan to lease an abandoned service station in Watonga, a small community 60 miles west of Oklahoma City," she said. "That initial willingness to start and grow a business required confidence, innovative thinking, hard work and perseverance, and is why Love’s is where it is today.

"Similarly, when Coach Gasso arrived in Norman in 1994, she organized practices at a local park and needed to schedule practice in between slow pitch softball leagues. And sometimes had to clean up the dugout from festivities the night before.

"She never gave up. From former OU Associate Athletic Director Marita Hynes, Coach Gasso, softball alumni, to current players, and the university, they persevered through all the challenges. That championship mindset is how success is built.”

How Love's started: Tom and Judy Love 'had two small children to feed and bills to pay'

Nobody in the Love family, or among the earliest employees, could have dreamed that Love's, first called Musket Corp., would ever become such a retail juggernaut, with locations popping up along interstate highways like spring dandelions — plus several other ventures catering to, and supporting, the trucking industry, everyday travelers, and fuel supply chain management.

“When my parents opened our first location 60 years ago, they never imagined what Love’s would grow into," Love Meyer said. "They had two small children to feed and bills to pay and had to figure out a way to do that. My dad had the idea to lease an abandoned filling station, and through hard work, finding ways to learn about the business and, as he would say, working with and hiring people smarter than him, they grew it into what it is today.

"We attribute our success to our team members and customers. They’ve helped us grow into what we are today while remaining true to the family-owned and -operated business model that we know sets us apart from competitors. We always say that if our teams take care of customers, we’ll take care of them, and we think that’s been a pretty good standard to live by.”

Love's rolls both ways, with professional drivers and casual customers

If you're a professional truck driver, Love's is a truck stop. If you're not, Love's is a convenience store with fast food. Chances are, trucker or not, you don't know what all drives the family-owned company.

Love's rolls both ways, of course. Two-thirds of fuel sales are to professional drivers, and two-thirds of in-store sales are to casual customers, the company says. But Love's business is more than gasoline, diesel, and road trip snacks and fast food.

This year, the company plans to add up to 25 new locations, update up to 40 older stores, and rebuild four, among other company expansions, said Shane Wharton, Love's president.

“Six decades ago, (the late) Tom Love opened our first service station in Watonga, Oklahoma, and almost immediately started selling household items to make stopping in more convenient for customers,” Wharton said. “Today, as the only major travel stop that is still family owned and operated, we continue with his innovative spirit by adding new products and improving the experience to give customers more reasons to stop in.”

Four generations of Loves are involved with the company, including billionaire co-founder Judy Love . But numerous others have helped build Love's since 1964, Love-Meyer said.

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“While a lot has changed ... the heart of Love’s has not," she said. “We are so grateful for our incredible team members — past and present — whose contributions play a role in shaping our company.

"Growth and innovation of our product offerings, living our core values and culture daily, and dedication to clean places, friendly faces are what this company was started on in 1964. Today, we proudly stand on that foundation and know our best is still ahead of us.”

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Love's went on a buying spree in 2023, its biggest year for mergers and acquisitions.

The company acquired EZ GO from Lawton-based Carey Johnson Oil Co., including six travel stops on Oklahoma turnpikes, five on the Kansas turnpike and 11 convenience stores in Oklahoma and Nebraska.

EZ GO, like Love's, features franchise food and owns and operates Back Forty Barbecue at two locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Houston-based Musket Corp., owned by Love's, established European operations with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Musket's focus is supplying Love’s Travel Stops with gasoline and diesel and managing the company’s biodiesel program. Subsidiary Musket Europe SARL extends the company's commodity supply and logistics, providing relief for the instability in global fuel supply chains.

Love's also bought OKC-based TVC Pro-Driver, a motor club and commercial driver’s license protection service. It assists drivers and fleets in reducing or dismissing fines, preventing downtime for court, and protecting federal compliance, safety and accountability scores. A subscription provides access to a network of attorneys and discounts on safety solutions, health care and more. Terms were not disclosed.

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Love's continues to expand and enhance services for drivers — professional and casual.

Through awards from the Federal Highway Administration's National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program , Love's-owned Trillium Energy Solutions , which Love's acquired in 2016, plans to add to Love’s electric vehicle fast-charging network with new chargers at 29 locations this year.

For truckers driving Freightliners, which Love's said accounts for about half all trucks on the road, Freightliner ExpressPoint is now available at more than 400 Love’s truck care locations, providing light mechanical warranty repair work for Freightliner trucks through Love’s partnership with Daimler Truck North America. Love's rolled out the service in January and plans to expand it this year.

Love's plans 10 new full-service Speedco locations next to its travel stops, 50 maintenance bays and and about 60 emergency roadside vehicles. Love's has owned Speedco since 2017.

Love family philanthropy seen across Oklahoma, elsewhere

Love's donates 2% of net profits to charity and good causes.

"Many know the story of Love’s...," Love Meyer said last year in Love's first-ever Community Impact Report. "And from those humble roots, he built a family-owned and -operated network of travel stops now approaching 700 locations.

"But it’s important to know that from the start, as he built the business, he cared about the communities where the stores were located. It is this caring, combined with a desire to give back, that is the foundation for charitable giving at Love’s. This is certainly one of the legacies my dad left with us. ... Helping others is nothing new for Love’s."

This year, in addition to the debut of Love’s Field, the Oklahoma City Zoo’s Expedition Africa and completely renovated Love's Pachyderm Building opened, the new Women’s Center at Mercy Hospital opened, and Love's Planetarium at Science Museum Oklahoma is scheduled to open.

"Our efforts are certainly not limited to Oklahoma and include building meaningful partnerships to transform communities nationwide," Love Meyer said.

Love's gave away nearly $12 million in 2022, according its 2023 Community Impact Report — 46% to youths and education, 20% to health and human services, 25% to civic and community organizations, and 9% to other needs. Recipients included:

• $6.9 million to Children's Miracle Network, which has received nearly $50 million in all from Love's.
• $3.5 million to Science Museum Oklahoma/Love's Planeterium.
• $150,000 to Operation Homefront.
• $100,000 to St. Christopher Trucking Development and Relief Fund.
• $50,000 to Truckers Against Trafficking.

In addition, Love's corporate employees donated $676,000 to United Way of Central Oklahoma and 1,400 volunteer hours to various causes.

Judy Love, as matriarch, has led the way in the Love family's giving.

Recipients include Positive Tomorrows, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, the University of Oklahoma , Oklahoma State University, Children’s Miracle Network and United Way, as well as out-of-state organizations and groups.

All that giving, and all that innovation, have kept the Loves' reputation growing, and Love's competitive and growing, for 60 years.

“As Love's has expanded its network and offerings over the past 60 years, we’ve been able to stay true to who we are and what we represent, clean places with friendly faces who work hard every day to get customers back on the road quickly," Love Meyer said. "The dedication to helping our customers every day, while innovating and striving to be better, is foundational for Love’s, from our leaders to team members across the nation.”

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What you may not know about Love's truck stops

Here are some things you might not know about Love's, and some more of what the company says to expect in 2024.

• Love’s is growing its Fresh Kitchen concept after customer feedback, offering fresh, healthier and diet-specific food options, including a new omelet bowl, upgraded snack trays, improved mac and cheese bowls, and other items.
• Love's, a top 10 restaurant operator in the U.S., with quick-service offerings from Arby's to McDonald's to Wendy's, will add 20 restaurants this year.
• Love’s will keep expanding its own branded food and snacks including new chip flavors, meat sticks, honey buns, powdered doughnuts and cookies.
• Love's will add RV hookups at 44 locations, ending 2024 with 1,500 hookups at 98 locations, and will double its number of truck washes by adding seven, for professional drivers and RV'ers.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Keep on trucking: How Love's Travel Stop grew from one store to an international empire

Ukraine war latest: Russian nuclear reactor 'extremely exposed' - as Ukraine 'launches raid on second Russian region'

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has said Kursk's nuclear plant reactor is "extremely exposed" to attack. It comes as Ukraine attempts to push into Russia's Belgorod region, according to reports. Watch a Sky News exclusive on the Ukrainian resistance operating behind Russian lines.

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We're pausing our live coverage of the war in Ukraine.

We'll be back with more updates and analysis tomorrow, but before we go, here's a recap of the key developments that took place today.

Russia launched another wave of missiles and drones overnight that killed at least six people. 

It followed a massive aerial attack on Sunday night that saw seven people killed and 15 regions struck.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine had  used Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to help defend itself. 

He also promised Ukraine would respond to the attacks.

Elsewhere, Russian Telegram channels reported that Ukrainian forces were attempting to push into Russia's southern Belgorod region.

Reports said 500 troops attacked two checkpoints at Nekhoteyevka and Shebekino, which borders both Ukraine and the Russian region of Kursk, which Kyiv invaded on 6 August.

In other news from the conflict:

• Mr Zelenskyy said Ukraine successfully ran a test of its first domestic-made ballistic missiles;
• He also said he's going to present a plan to the US on how he intends to end the war with Russia;
• Sir Keir Starmer said there has been "no new decisions" on letting Ukraine use UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia;
• The head of the international nuclear watchdog said was a danger of a "nuclear accident" at the "extremely exposed" Kursks nuclear power plant;
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he "exchanged perspectives" on the war in Ukraine with Vladimir Putin;

Pictures show an inspection of Kursk nuclear power plant led by Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He warned the plant's nuclear reactor was "extremely exposed and fragile" to attack, protected only by a "normal roof" from impact.

The plant is based in the Kursk region of Russian, which Ukraine invaded earlier this month.

By Deborah Haynes , security and defence editor

One of the most secret weapons to combat Russia's invasion of Ukraine has started to raise its profile.

A new video posted on social media seeks to promote the covert activities of a network of Ukrainian civilians, living - and fighting - behind Russian lines.

Run by the Ukrainian special forces, this resistance movement is growing, according to its commander, who said any adult - old, young, male, female - can join.

They just need to be loyal to Ukraine - and brave.

In an echo of Britain's Special Operations Executive that ran missions behind enemy lines during the Second World War, the tasks of the Ukrainian resistance inside territory captured by Moscow include espionage, sabotage and "eliminating" Russian forces, the commander told Sky News.

He said the men and women of the resistance are active in Crimea as well as parts of southern and eastern Ukraine and have carried out jobs within Russia.

Groups are also being created - as a precaution - in parts of Ukraine that may yet fall under Russian control.

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Kyiv will present US officials with a tailored list of long-range targets they wish to strike inside Russia, according to reports.

It forms part of Ukraine's efforts to convince Washington to lift restrictions on the use of long-range weapons.

Ukrainian officials hope that by identifying high-value targets, they can change Joe Biden's mind, reported Politico, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

National security council spokesperson John Kirby said there were "no changes" to US policy at a briefing yesterday, but Ukraine’s defence minister, Rustem Umerov, and senior presidential adviser, Andriy Yermak, will be in Washington this week to present the plan.

Kyiv has long argued that without the use of long-range weapons, it cannot eliminate the systems Russia uses to fire missiles and rockets at civilian targets in Ukraine.

Russia has continued its assault on Pokrovsk, mounting some 60 assaults in the Pokrovsky district today, according to the Ukrainian army's general staff.

"Ukrainian defenders are doing everything possible to maintain defensive lines and positions," it said.

Here we take a look at why Russia sees the city of Pokrovsk as a high-priority target.

Pokrovsk is a road and rail hub with a pre-war population of 60,000 people.

It lies on a key road used by the Ukrainian military to supply other embattled Ukrainian-held outposts, such as the towns of Chasiv Yar and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.

To its west is Ukraine's largest coking coal mine, vital for its pre-war economy.

Why does Russia want it?

Moscow sees taking control of Pokrovsk as an important stepping stone to annexing the entire Donetsk region.

Russian media call it "the gateway to Donetsk", allowing Moscow to severely disrupt Ukrainian supply lines along the eastern front and boost its campaign to capture the city of Chasiv Yar.

Chasiv Yar itself sits on higher ground and offers potential control of a wider area.

Squeezing the Ukrainian military's access to the road network in the vicinity would also make it harder for the troops to hold pockets of territory either side of Pokrovsk.

The impact of the war 

Residents continue to evacuate westwards by rail and road, while others are reluctant to leave.

Windows are boarded up or blown out, with roofs, balconies and facades badly damaged.

Residents say power and water have long been cut.

Vadym Filashkin, the Donetsk regional governor, said 53,000 people were still living in the Pokrovsk area on 19 August, including some 4,000 children.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says the West "is asking for it" and is "playing with fire" if the US is considering lifting restrictions on Ukraine's use of Western long-range weapons.

"We have our own doctrine, including the doctrine of using nuclear weapons, which, by the way, is now being clarified, and which American officials know very well. 

"But this is simply Freudian, you know, the third world war is bad because we do not want Europe to suffer. 

"Here is the entire American mentality of the master, who sits on the other side, convinced of his safety, and convinced that for him the dirty work will be done and die, not only Ukrainians, but now also Europeans, as it turns out."

Mr Lavrov said it was very dangerous for leaders entrusted with nuclear weapons to "play with matches like little children".

"The West does not want to avoid escalation. The West, as they say, is asking for it." 

The number of people killed by Russian missiles and drones today has risen to six, according to Ukrainian officials.

This brings the total to 13 dead in 48 hours, after Moscow's biggest air attack of the war yesterday.

Three people were killed and five injured today when a hotel was "wiped out" by a missile in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said.

Separately, three people were killed and three injured in drone attacks on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.

Another four were hurt in a missile strike on the northeastern region of Kharkiv overnight, local authorities said. 

Ukraine downed five out of 10 incoming missiles and 60 out of 81 drones, the air force said.

Earlier today we featured warnings from nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi against the danger of a nuclear accident at Kursk's nuclear power plant.

We now have fuller comments from Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who was leading an inspection today.

The plant's nuclear reactor is "extremely exposed" to attack, he said.

"The core of the reactor containing nuclear material is protected just by a normal roof. This makes it extremely exposed and fragile, for example, to an artillery impact or a drone or a missile," he said.

"This is like the building across the street, all right? With all this nuclear material."

The facility lacks the containment dome and protective structure that is typical of modern nuclear power stations.

"This is why we believe that a nuclear power plant of this type, so close to a point of contact or a military front, is an extremely serious fact that we take very seriously."

Mr Grossi continued: "There is no specific protection. And this is very, very important. If there is an impact on the core, the material is there and the consequences could be extremely serious."

The plant has the same same type of reactor as Chernobyl, but it would be an exaggeration to equate the two, he added.

 Ukraine used Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to down Russian drones and missiles during recent attacks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

The Ukrainian president announced earlier this month that Kyiv had received the first batch of jets promised by Western countries.

Speaking at a news conference today, Mr Zelenskyy confirmed the use of F-16s and urged Ukraine's allies to send more.

"Nobody talked about it, but we destroyed already, in this huge attack of Russians, we destroyed already some missiles and drones using F-16," he said.

"I will not share how many, but we did it thanks to partners who gave us F-16, provided to us. But again it's not enough, we have a small number of F-16."

NATO's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg will convene a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council tomorrow .

A NATO spokesperson said the meeting will be held "at an ambassadorial level" at Kyiv's request and that Ukraine's defence minister Rustem Umerov is expected to appear via video-link.

He will brief the council "on the battlefield situation and priority capability needs", according to the spokesperson.

The meeting comes after two consecutive nights of heavy Russian strikes on Ukraine, which across both evenings killed 13 people.

For context: The NATO-Ukraine Council was launched in 2023 as part of a three-part package of support bringing Kyiv closer to NATO.

It replaced the NATO-Ukraine Commission, which was the decision-making body responsible for developing the NATO-Ukraine relationship and for directing cooperative activities from 1997-2023.

NATO members and Ukraine meet as equal participants in the council.

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