Pilot Travel Centers is among the nation's largest retail operators of travel centers that cater to professional drivers and traveling motorists. The company was established in 1958 and maintains more than 280 retail interstate properties in 40 states. Its travel centers each offer nationally recognized fast food restaurants, showers, ATMs, Internet kiosks, game rooms and pay phones. Pilot Travel Centers provides check cashing, Western Union, laundry, and truck wash and maintenance services. The company is headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., and employs in excess of 13,000 people nationwide. It is owned by Pilot Corporation. Pilot Travel Centers maintains one of its additional locations in Ocala, Fla.