carrying additional diesel fuel containers in truck

What do u mean,lol

 

You know what I mean!! You just don't have that truckin blood in you no more. You need a shot of protein!! To get them juices flowing like they did in those Werner days. They are all dried up looking like rasins now.

 

I believe it falls here.

https://www.reference.com/vehicles/...m-7a551535323bc63b?qo=contentSimilarQuestions

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The pretrip inspection forms or written reports must contain information about defects in the vehicle that could cause a mechanical breakdown or that make the vehicle unsafe to operate. The reports must indicate if drivers do not find any defects during their inspections. Drivers must sign the reports. In vehicles with two drivers, only one is required to sign as long as both agree about the defects noted. The FMCSA forbids drivers to operate vehicles that have defects that could cause accidents or vehicle breakdowns while traveling. Vehicles that break down while on the road are permitted to continue traveling to the nearest place where they can be repaired.

Meaning that if you were to run out of fuel it COULD BE ( This is the DOT folks) considered a breakdown and since you signed off on your pretrip that everything was fine and working... Go ahead and sign here along with your check sent to the following address highlighted in red. And since your trucking down the road with jugs hangin out on the catwalk, Another flag for DOT.

 

My fuel guage isn't very reliable either, I've got 2 100 gallon tanks and when the guage says it's on e I can fill up with 140 to 150 gallons of fuel. But just to be sure I reset my trip meter and won't do any more than 900 miles before I'll fill up again. Usually at that point the light has come on

 

Wow got to believe that people can't figure out something so easy and fundamental as keeping fuel in the truck. There is something called a truck stop, keep it filled, and tell the company to get the thing fixed.

 

I was standing in line at a Swift repair shop, the driver in front of me was submitting his truck for an inoperable fuel gauge, the shop dude told him they are not DOT required to work so the shop doesn't work on them, "Next...."

 

Yeah I would have told him fix it and walked away.

 

Mine is the same way. But, I track my fuel economy and use my 30 average to plan my fuel stops. I can safely go 1200 miles between stops. By that point the fuel gauge has been on e for while and on a full up from that point is about 165-170 gallons.

 

You do know the difference between reliable and accurate?

I've got a brand new truck where the gauge was really off, it had a half a tank in it when the light went on saying it was almost empty.

It was very reliable but very inaccurate.

I had the sender unit took out of the tank, then the arm carefully bent down to allow the float to move to the bottom of the tank when it was empty, not stopped because of the internal arm stop.

 

If you know something isn't working, then why not have the "Company" just fix it??

And, no, I would never haul extra fuel in containers anywhere in the truck.

If "Company" doesn't want to fix it....are they really someone you want to be driving for??