Advice for fueling at Love's.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by PackRatTDI, Aug 24, 2013.

  1. sazook

    sazook Road Train Member

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    This makes sense... someone is taking too long at the fuel island... I've got a great idea!! I'm going to tamper with his truck (on a security camera probably), and make it so he possibly can't move off the fuel island for an hour or more. BRILLIANT!!!!:biggrin_25514:
     
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  3. wsyrob

    wsyrob Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I park at Loves a lot because I have unlimited showers there. Some are better than others. In Toms Brook Va I park at the Wilco. It's always a cluster. Since I like leave before 5 AM I usually fuel on my pretrip for the day. Pumps are wide open at 4:00 AM usually except for a few LTL doubles taking a 30 minute break.
     
  4. Charli Girl

    Charli Girl Road Train Member

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    EXACTLY what I was thinking...:biggrin_25523: Maybe he's thinking of Bonnieview?
     
  5. RedForeman

    RedForeman Momentum Conservationist

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    There's a Peelot on 35W right before you get to Denton. How could anyone mistake the J at Bonnieview? I'm parked there right now LOL.
     
  6. Charli Girl

    Charli Girl Road Train Member

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    Be careful driver...do you remember when a driver a few years back was at the "peelot" down the street and some nasty thug pulled a gun and the driver tried to protect his wife and the s.o.b. shot and killed him?
    I was at the TA across the street one time and the guy in front of me at the fuel island was robbed RIGHT THERE,took his phone and laptop... I can't stand lazy thugs!
     
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  7. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    Two incidents that happened to me with rude people.

    The first was four years back when an idiot driver left her class 1.2 load in the fuel isle as she went into the truck stop to get some food. After 30 minutes, someone called the cops, they arrived with them the FBI, 5 minutes after they got there she came out to move her truck. I only hope she was fired because she deserved it.

    A couple months ago I was picking up one of the trucks to take it into service, the driver went no vacation so I wanted to get it out of the way for him. I pulled into the pilot in Fremont, waited patiently to get to the pumps, fueled the truck up while the other guy went in to get his receipts. I didn't mind it, no one behind me and I had time to kill. So I went in after I fueled up, got my receipts and then back out to the truck to get home. I came out and there was someone else's bobtail facing my truck with 2 feet between us and he was no where to be found. Someone pulled in behind me, and someone behind them, the last truck the guy went in to get some food at Wendy's. The guy behind me had no where to go and was mad because the driver behind him parked so close to him, he didn't want to take a chance on hitting the truck if he backed up and seeing he was close to me, he had no room to maneuver out forward. I went back into the place to get the manager and he was no where to be found waited for 5 minutes for someone at the counter to acknowledged I wasn’t invisible so someone could get on the PA and ask the idiot to move his bobtail out of my way but the girl behind the counter was too busy or she said. This all was in a matter of 30 minutes and finally the guy finally came out and he was screamed at by the guy behind me for being rude and other things.
     
  8. RedForeman

    RedForeman Momentum Conservationist

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    I'm over here for a change of scenery. Pretty quiet now since the riff-raff aren't up this early. I usually stay at the T/A if I have to be here. This time I don't need to add fuel and I hate paying a parking toll if I don't need to. Even if I was gonna spend $25+ in there anyway.

    I will admit this is one of the few places I go where I bring my little slider pin helper inside the truck.

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  9. coastie

    coastie Road Train Member

    Well I had that happen to me in a way. I was running real low on fuel and a female driver was parked in the fuel Island at a Pilot. Embarrassed to say we were working for the same company at the time. She comes out of Pilot with a Subway and then pulls forward but not far enough so I could get to the tank with the pump hose. I had to go and knock on her door and ask her to pull on up. I not going to be mad cause she went and got the sub, for the driver before her may have been parked there long time, for yes it was a Pilot. But only pulled up to eat there on the fuel line got me.

    As for the other part of your story About the guy who caused you to lose your temper Do not worry. I was at a Flying J and fueled pulled up and standing inline to get my receipt and a drink. THe guy behind me made 3 calls in whinning about me parked there. When i walked out to my truck he just starting to fuel. I laughed at him and said something about how stupid he was crying and he not even started to fuel that all he done was wasted his time and everyone elses so stop acting like a fool and worry about his own business than anyone elses.
     
  10. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    Toms brook is always a disaster lol
     
  11. Upright

    Upright Medium Load Member

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    lmao. Make it another drivers problem. Thats a genius idea. Buncha dummies I swear. If dude is going to take the time to sabotage someone else, obviously he doesnt have more pressing things to do. So why ##### moan and groan about the fuel island being blocked.
     
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