That's the worst website search ever. Even if you know their street address for a tower, if you try to search for it, it doesn't show results.
Actually, there are towers along Pecos, on atttowers.com. You're right that the search doesn't turn them up that way, but I mapped the entire length of Pecos Blvd and then found it on the total Vegas map on the site.
They're like billboards. Someone names them, and it sticks. We once had to find an electronic digital billboard named "Ice House" -- turns out it was in front of a Wal Mart (with the Ice House having been torn down three years before). (I know that's off-topic, but my husband's helper worked on cell towers, and said they were named the same way).
Notice the names of these, north to south along Pecos Blvd:
Name: "Las Vegas Blvd and Pecos"
http://www.atttowers.com/towers/siteInfo.do?siteID=50491&page=search
3031 NORTH PECOS ROAD (@ Las Vegas Blvd)
Name: "East Sahara"
http://www.atttowers.com/towers/siteInfo.do?siteID=10456&page=search
2143 PALM STREET (where Pecos turns into Palm for awhile)
Name: "Mcleod"
http://www.atttowers.com/towers/siteInfo.do?siteID=10493&page=search
3065 E DESERT INN RD (100 feet off Mcleod-Pecos Blvd)
Name: "Sams"
http://www.atttowers.com/towers/siteInfo.do?siteID=10510&page=search
3510 E TROPICANA (Tropicana @ Pecos)
Name: "Russell Road"
http://www.atttowers.com/towers/siteInfo.do?siteID=10460&page=search
3291 EAST PATRICK LANE (400 ft west of Pecos @ Patrick)
A coincidence because he stopped to buy gas at a different one, on Dec 10th? Maybe, maybe not.
The Pilot in Wendover is the ONLY place you can P and gas up in that town (I was just there, about 11 days ago. We did both.)
The Pilot in Las Vegas is at the first "real" Las Vegas exit.
I like the idea that he could have stopped there, but I think he'd also have stopped there if it had been a Flying J -- which is where he bought gas in Utah, on Dec 10th
The brand isn't doing it for me. It's just one of the two biggest truck stop brands we have in these parts (owned by the same company, too).
I can't imagine someone leaving their own bed to sleep in their car, 110 miles away, if their destination is that town - at noon the next day.
But here I am. Trying to make logic out of the illogical.