Oops, bet he won't do that again!

OMG!!!! Tarps!!! Who in the heck let you out of the cage? How ya been? Hope no one catches me saying this, but it's good to hear from ya and I actually have missed going back and forth. Be safe. Rat

 

While I may have some personal issues that should be addressed, the point is the lack of courtesy and concern for safety obviously ignored by many who use the water hoses at a fuel island. I don't care how good your aim is, there's going to be a slippery surface left behind once you pull your truck ahead. You can "soften the bugs" just as good with your windshield washer fluid, and that won't leave a slimy mess for someone to potentially slip and fall.

And I won't even get into how this unnecessarily will track sludge and grime inside a person's truck.

 

Scarecrowo3 said:

If a TS is nice enough to provide a bucket of soapy water, a squeegee, and a water hose on their fuel island, I am not going to deny myself the pleasure of using it. I get the glass cleaner and do it quicker. Let's be realistic...

I know which TSs have these essentials and I tend to fuel there often.

I promise not to squirt you, and the concrete was already wet when I got there.

Be careful how you step at the fuel island. You're right. It can be treacherous.

 

This is all the more reason I'm in favor of eliminating the water hose/spigot completely. Supplying a bucket full of windshield washer fluid/soapy water and a squeegee is more than enough to clean one's windshield. I don't see what's so unrealistic about that? In what fashion, outside of the abuse in the form of turning the fuel island into a wash bay, is the water spigot and hose a necessary item on a fuel island? To me, their mere existence is unrealistic.

 

Here we have a classic example of two parties agreeing to disagree.

Touche

 

Disagreement agreed upon. Have a great evening!

 

that's why I bought a good brush and carried some good old dawn for bad windsheld days. My brush has a long handle too.

 

Some drivers get cranky over the smallest things Ha ha! I agree the fuel islands are usually slippery for a lot of reasons. It is a good idea to wear some good nonslip soles on your shoes not tennis shoes.
And if I ever had the hose get away from me I would walk around and say I am sorry for the early bath or something in the line of a apology It may or not help but it was worth a try.

 

It is actually 50 gallons. Following a friend of mine down the road one day and he had to run over a mattress. Springs wrapped around drive shaft and sent the PTO through the fuel tank(we pulled tanker at the time). The officials who did come out were trying to estimate the fuel spillage and decided it was less than 50 gal so they wouldn't have to call the hazmat team.