How many of you have run out of fuel?

I stopped at home for lunch, about ten miles from a discount fuel stop. Lost power on the entrance ramp after lunch. Walked home two blocks, emptied the lawnmower gas into the car, drove the car to the fuel stop.

 

Werner utilizes a 'Fuel Book' - certain locations along major thorough-ways, generally the BIG 5, some independents or small chains thrown in there.
They let you fuel where you want, as long as it's in the guide. They'll offer routing for fuel stops as well, but it's optional if you know what you're doing...

Pro-activity is key.

Example:
My routing:
Leominster, MA > J in Milton, PA > Girard, OH

My actual fuel routing:
Newburg, NY (where I'm snoozing tonight - fuel up as part of pre-trip)


Hubbard, OH - 8 miles from Girard. I'll be full for the next one..... Let's just hope it isn't a 46k beer run.

 

Only one time have i run out of fuel or gas in my 35 yrs of driving. Working for coca cola, they had a fuel company come to yard and fuel all the trucks there. One time got back to yard pretty late. Next morning i didnt look at guage and ran out of fuel at a left turn lane next to santa clarita sheriff station. Took shop mechanic couple hours to show up. In the meantime... every cop car that passed stopped to see if i was ok lol

 

A couple of times with my bike on a track... And a bunch of times with the lawn mower.

Never with my truck...to me there's no excuse for running out with a rig.

 

Ran out of beer once. Had to switch to whiskey.

 

I never ran out of fuel.PROFESSIONAL (mind I said PROFESSIONAL) drivers don't run out of fuel because it's very UNPROFESSIONAL.

 

I didn't but one winter we had all our trucks running 24/7 in the yard. 1 truck got missed on the weekly fuel run. Driver made it about 500 feet down the road with a tridrive hydrovac and she died right in the middle of the road. I had to block both northbound lanes of the main road through the industrial park while I dumped 30 or 40 liters of fuel in the driver's side tank from the tidy tank in a 3/4 ton. Got it primed up and he made it off the main road and onto the side road, almost to the cardlock when it died again. Of course this is when that stupid Cat hand primer decides to say F U and stop working. Eventually got it going again.

 

Zinger, think I fiqured out a solution for Ur problem....stay outta Iowa lol