Does it smell like gas in the truck?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by lupe, Sep 20, 2010.

  1. GoneButNotForgotten

    GoneButNotForgotten Heavy Load Member

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    My guess is Lupe that you are young, maybe even a minor. Unless you have been locked in the basement for years, everything that you are being told is common sense-life experience for most people in this country. Maybe you haven't driven to a TS because you don't have an OL? Kudos to you for jerking everyones chain.
     
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  3. ZippyNH

    ZippyNH Medium Load Member

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    Don't wait for Mass..they locked the doors on the rest-stops, and dropped porta-a-Jon's in the parking lots....somehow renting them is cheaper than using a building that was already paid for, and that they still have to maintain!?!:biggrin_25513:

    I guess they only have to dump them/suck them out a few times a week...so no attendant needed!! Shows you how much sense government makes.....layoff the janitors....than spend billions to 'create' jobs....:biggrin_25513:
     
  4. lupe

    lupe Medium Load Member

    What is an OL?
     
  5. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Semper Fi

    I'll tell you what I did lol. I went out the men's room and right next door to the ladies room. No lie. No one was in there or I wouldn't have done it. But when I came out there was the janitor type straightening up a picture on the wall or something who berated me for using the womens bathroom. I just played embarrassed and walked away.
     
  6. Jarhed1964

    Jarhed1964 Road Train Member

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    I have done that myself! Works fine in the wee small hours of the night when everyone else is sleep.
    :biggrin_255:
     
  7. Ranger_309

    Ranger_309 Medium Load Member

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    Diesel is safer then gasoline, as far as toxicity. Gasoline contains Benzene which has long been known to cause cancer.

    Gasoline produces much more flammable and air-polluting vapor then diesel, which is why its still legal in some places to fill storage tanks without a return hose for the venting of the tank back into the tanker truck.

    Sooner or later you will step in diesel if you are at a truck-stop. Some idiot always has a fuel leak, or tops it off and it foams over the top of the tank.

    It can be pretty hard on your blinkers, if you have any fuel or mist get in your eyes but it won't damage them permanently.

    I used to haul petroleum fuels awhile back, so that's how I know.
     
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  8. Ranger_309

    Ranger_309 Medium Load Member

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    Operators License, I believe.
     
  9. BlackNova

    BlackNova Bobtail Member

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    How in the hell did this question get 12 pages of replies?!?!?!
     
  10. Jarhed1964

    Jarhed1964 Road Train Member

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    This is one of those threads that people will be reading and shaking their heads over for a long time.

    :biggrin_25523:
     
  11. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    It has 12 pages because nonsensical questions beg nonsensical answers, and then some.
     
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