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theres always the cops that sit up in the top floor of the hotel on i 70 near the st louis airport watching and shooting radar and calling another cop sitting a bit down the highway they have been doing that for years and they made it a safety zone as well

 

To anyone in the office on this fine Sunday morning: I've been empty for almost 2 hours and have been waiting ever so patiently for an express code to pay the piper. I'm currently listening to the sound of a ringing phone in my headset and have been for the last 45 minutes. I know you are overworked and understaffed on the weekends so this is not to criticize, just a plea for some help so I may have an iota of a chance at finding a parking spot at the J here in Phoenix today before it starts to overflow with Swift and Schneider bobtails at around noon.

I'm gonna start speaking Phoneinese if I continue to listen to the ringing. So if you could be so kind...PLEASE push a button for me.

Yer pal, Knew B.

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I'm totally confused. If you haven't finalled out, what are you doing in the bobtail parking??? Oh, and BTW, Hubby has been driving for over 20yrs, diesel weighs about 7.9 per gal, so you are perfectly fine figuring it at 8.

 

You guys are obviously free to use whatever weight you want in figuring your diesel totals, but the math does work out to an average of around 7.15 lbs. I say average because the density does fluctuate a bit with the temperature, but the equation is weight = volume x density

With an average density of 850 grams per liter and a gallon being 3.785 liters the equation is w = 3.785 x 850 x. 001 (cubic meters) or 3.217kg. That is multiplied by 2.204 to convert it to lbs and it comes out to 7.09 lbs per gallon. The 7.15 number is generally used to account for the fluctuation in density due to temperatures but usually no more than .3 lbs in either direction.

Not trying to start a flame war, just pointing out I did give an accurate weight.

Again, use whatever number you are comfortable with.

 

FWIW, I did a search on it and the number ranged between about 7 and 8 pounds per gallon. Sounds like subject to interpretation to me.

 

I meant I could have made it without adding fuel. You weren't listenin to what I was thinking, just reading what I typed.

 

Obviously if the fuel is female it only weighs 6.5lbs a gallon, male fuel 8.0lbs a gallon, and female fuel doesn't make your tanks look fat.

 

At 0759 today, there were zero calls in the que. At 0803, there were 17. I am the main person answering the phone until 1000. There is one person on the qualcom.
Today was a zoo. And I swear it must be a full moon out there!
Sorry for the wait. The supervisor and the dispatcher both chipped in to help on the phones, but that put their work behind.
Another thing that delays phone calls are the drivers that call in on the customer lines. We are suppose to answer it within three rings. It takes priority over the other phones.
When a driver calls on that line, we have to find out if they want the driver line or road rescue or, or, or...then transfer them.
If drivers phoned road rescue directly with the 800 number, if they used the driver line, things would go much faster.
And please! Have your thoughts together when you call! You won't believe the number of callers that beat around the bush and can't remember what they called about.
Today, I had at least a dozen calls that after getting thru, said, "oh, nevermind. I'll call back."
????
And our phone system is still the pits. It's suppose to allow only one call thru at a time, but constantly the second line lights up. if I don't answer it, the system logs me out and both calls are lost in space! there's no way to make one line busy so only one call comes thru.
I was logged out several times today...only slows things up and some drivers were lost.
And lest we not forget the system that decides to make the buttons 'invalid'. I can press the button to answer a call until the cows come home, but it won't work...so the system logs me out because I didn't answer the phone.
Don't get me started....it was a Jack Daniels day.
Sorry folks...I know we're the weekend crew, but we are really trying very hard to help all of you.
With the addition of two more persons, it should help a lot.
Be patient...(please!?)

 

OK, lets add one more equation to the fuel weight.
How do you weigh it?
Now keep in mind, I am a licensed scale master in OR,WA,CA and ID. This means somewhere I was suppose to learn 'stuff'.
Scales are rated for accuracy by repeatability and linear display. The most accurate scales, as far as the law is concerned, are those sealed for 'Legal for Trade'.
To qualify for this, they must be accurate to no less than one tenth of one percent of the scale capacity.
So if you have a 100 pound scale, that's 0.1 pounds.
Highway scales are generally rated at 200,000 pounds. That means they are accurate to within 200 pounds.
So that's why scales don't ticket you for weight varience of less than 200#.
Now put that same accuracy rate to the fuel in your tank. plus or minus the rated accuracy of the scale, 200 gallons then can weigh from1600 pounds (based on 7# per gallon) to 1800 pounds (based on 8# per gallon), when weighed on a highway scale.
Do the math..at 1800, that comes out to an average of 9# per gallon!
confused?
Don't be.
Just use the average...8 pounds. You'll never go wrong.
I'm going to go to bed now.

 

Not to beat a dead horse but shouldn't your tolerance be +/- not just plus making your range from 1200 to 1800 with an average of 7.5?

When I worked with tolerances and scales, albeit they were quite a bit smaller in both cases, every tolerance we used was stated in a +/- format.