After a one-year trial run in its Terrell, Texas, location, Rip Griffin Travel Centers will expand SmartStop's multi-application smart card in all its travel centers.

At each Rip Griffin facility, truck drivers will use a smart card for access to the showers. Rip Griffin has also tested and plans to use the same smart card for loyalty points, on-island fueling, automated truck weighing, and prepaid e-cash for service or convenience store purchases. The e-cash and loyalty points will be transferable across the entire Rip Griffin Travel Center network.
Future applications include funds transfer directly to the card, Internet access, personal and business telephone calls and other applications.
The Jubitz Truck Stop in Portland, Ore., has also implemented the SmartStop smart card program, focusing on loyalty applications for truck drivers and local residents.