Buy, sell & finance truck stops with the sector specialists.

Truck Stop Trader is a specialist investment-sales platform for truck stops and travel centers, and a brand of Eagle Nest Property Group. We advise owners on confidential sales, represent buyers on and off market, arrange financing and sale-leasebacks, and represent a private investment group that acquires select travel centers directly.

A truck stop primarily serves professional drivers with diesel lanes, parking, and basic amenities. A travel center is larger and full-service, with multiple fuel positions, a large convenience store, quick-service restaurants, showers, scales, and truck maintenance. Travel centers typically trade at higher values and attract institutional buyers.

Value is driven by fuel volume and margin, inside-store and foodservice profit, real estate quality and interstate location, and the strength of any lease. Most deals are priced on a capitalization rate applied to normalized net operating income, cross-checked against recent comparable sales and replacement cost.

A confidential, well-prepared travel center typically goes from engagement to closed in roughly 90 to 150 days, depending on financing, environmental review, and franchise or fuel-supply approvals. We run a quiet, targeted process rather than a public listing.

Yes. Alongside our brokerage, we represent a private investment group that acquires travel centers directly for its own account. It is an active, well-capitalized, multi-state acquirer, now buying in Texas and targeting MSA-adjacent sites with flexible industrial and outdoor-storage zoning, including older assets.

We are headquartered in Dallas-Fort Worth and work nationwide, with a current acquisition focus on Texas and major metropolitan corridors across the United States.

A sale-leaseback lets an operator sell the real estate under their travel center and simultaneously sign a long-term lease to keep operating. It converts trapped equity into cash while the business runs uninterrupted, often at a better effective cost of capital than a mortgage.

Cap rates vary with fuel brand, lease term, location, and operating history. Corporate-guaranteed, net-leased travel centers trade at tighter cap rates, while independent, operator-run sites trade wider. We benchmark your specific asset against live buyer demand at no cost.

Most truck stops and travel centers are valued as a capitalization rate applied to normalized net operating income, plus the underlying real estate. Fuel gallons and margin, inside-store and foodservice profit, location and traffic counts, and any lease in place all move the number. Send us your fuel volume, store sales, and site details and we will return a supportable value range at no cost.

Buyers range from individual and regional multi-site operators to private equity, fuel distributors, and net-lease real estate investors. Larger, well-located travel centers attract institutional and 1031-exchange capital, while independent sites often sell to owner-operators. Eagle Nest also represents a private group that acquires travel centers directly.

Yes. We run a quiet, targeted process instead of a public listing, so your staff, customers, and fuel supplier are not tipped off. Qualified buyers sign a non-disclosure agreement before they see financials, and we control the information flow through closing.