Facilities
Gateway Truck Stop offers a variety of specialised services to our clients in order to ensure a comfortable, relaxed stay. We understand the importance of adequate rest for drivers during each trip and we believe that an attentive driver is an asset to any freight company. Gateway Truck Stop offers truck drivers these conveniences in one, easily accessible location.
Truck Stop Parking
- ^Park for 45 minutes for free. See Our Tariffs for more information.
- ^Our Restaurant and shop are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Driver Facilities
- ^24 hour Diesel/Fuel Depot with quality guaranteed diesel
- ^24 hour Take Away Shop with DSTV TV
- ^24 hour Clean Ablution Blocks
- ^General Dealer Store
- ^Drinking Water Purification Plant
- ^Driver Entertainment
- ^Clothing Store
- ^Numerous Japanese Car Warehouses
- ^ACE Currency Exchange
Truck Security
- ^Secure Parking for trucks
- ^Dedicated Tankers and Dangerous Goods Parking Yard
- ^Trucker Wellness Clinic
- ^24 Hour Security
- ^24 Hour Camera Surveillance
Trucker Wellness Clinic
The lifestyle of a truck driver can often be very hard with grueling hours, long distances and prolonged loneliness. The trucking industry, faced with the challenges of rising fuel costs, safety and constant driver shortages, now faces an even deadlier threat from the impact of HIV and AIDS. Loneliness has encouraged many drivers, married or single, to find comfort on the side of the road. This is generally found in the arms of the sex worker. Many of these workers are driven by the high unemployment rates to provide a service that will place food on the table. The consequences are devastating, with STD’s and HIV/AIDS been spread from one truck stop to another without any discrimination.
The once stable industry of some 70 000 drivers is now challenged by the impact of poor health and shortened life spans on its driving workforce. The effects of HIV and AIDS can be felt in the constant search to replace lost drivers, either through high absenteeism or death. The result is trucks left standing, reducing the earning potential of the loads that they carry or worse still, driving once thriving transport companies to closure and inevitable job loss. The impact of driver health has an even darker side, with STD’s and HIV/AIDS finding their way into the lives of the woman these men engage with. This means wives, girlfriends, sex workers and other clients. This places families and especially woman at risk, as men, sometimes the only bread winner lose their jobs or don’t survive.
Vision:
To be the centre of excellence in the management, implementation and support of road freight and logistics industry’s HIV and AIDS interventions.
Goal:
To reduce the number of new HIV infections and reducing the impact of HIV and AIDS on individuals, families and communities in the road freight and logistics industry.
ACE Currency Exchange
Ace Currency Exchange is authorised by the South African Reserve Bank to trade as an Authorised Dealer in Foreign Exchange with Limited Authority (ADLA). Ace Currency Exchange provide travellers with every form of foreign currency service they may need for their trips, both abroad and in South Africa. Ace Currency Exchange has developed a product range that integrates many different components, at the most competitive rates with the highest levels of customer service.
24 Hour Camera Surveillance
GeoVision holds technical edges in state-of-the-art surveillance software, video/audio compression techniques, intelligent video analysis, and hardware enhancements. GeoVision’s award-winning GV series surveillance products provide total security solutions for point-of-sale systems, license plate recognition systems, and central monitoring systems. With our advantages in video surveillance techniques, we are forging ahead to new fields of IP surveillance, video server, network video storage, access-control DVR, and video security service.
Drinking Water Purification Plant
The Gateway Truck Stop water is being treated by a 5 step process.
Step 1
Sterilization:
The water gets pumped to a 10 000L storage tank where it is chlorinated using slow release scientific reservoir floaters designed specifically for potable water applications. This ensures that the water is free from decease causing bacteria and other pathogenic organisms making the water safe from a microbiological perspective. This also prevents bacteria build up in the rest of the plant.
Step 2
Sediment Filtration:
This step removes sand, clay, silt ect. and protects the rest of the treatment plant against mechanical blockage and damage.
Step 3
Activated Carbon:
This step removes tastes, odours, chemicals, heavy metals and chlorine from the water which also protects the softener and R.O Systems from damage
Step 4
Water Softener:
The water softener removes excess hardness from the water (minerals that form lime scale-white deposits) This step protects the R.O System against scale build up and failure.
Step 5
R.O Filtration
Reverse Osmosis is the finest form of filtration known to man and removes bacteria, viruses, excessive organic and an organic minerals and radio-active materials.