QT (QuickTrip) puts Loves, Pilot to shame

That's the only reason that I use TA/Pilot. Shower credits. I would need to buy 87 gallons of fuel at the QT before I saved enough to pay for the shower at a TA/Pilot ($12), and I'd still be out the reward points.

 

A cess pool would put a peelot to shame on the hottest day of the year...for a multitude of reasons.

 

87 gallons is about what you'd use in a day's worth of driving anyway...so if you ever have shower credits that expire, you're throwing money away if that's your entire justification for paying too much for fuel.

All last week I was fueling up at a Shell station...only 1 diesel pump with a satellite....$3.869/gallon....and no waiting, because everybody else was 5 miles away overpaying for their fuel. The Pilot was $4.259/gal. The T/A next to the Pilot was $4.219/gal. The Hucks across the street from the T/A was $4.169/gal. I have never seen one of the big chains beat a local station on their diesel price. I could have showered twice per day for what I saved on my fuel purchases.

 

But do we know what the fleet price was? It has nothing to do with pump price.

 

Fleet price for the Pilot in Ft. Worth that I was able to pull right now is 3.86.

 

Ohhhhh, those poor down trodden O/O's and small fleets. The world's out toget them isn't it!

The O/O's and small fleets CAN buy discounted fuel just like the big fleets, they just have to have some initiative.

 

...or just use the independent fuel stops who charge what the fuel should cost as opposed to having to gouge people at the pump in order to make up for the deep discounts they are giving to the larger fleets.

 

They're not gouging on fuel. $14.00 on 100 gallons isn't gouging. It's only a 3.5% difference.

Where they gouge you is on snacks and drinks.