Fuel your truck while running

Sorry, the whole "cell phone blowing up fuel pumps" thing is a total crock. http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

 

Ya, we use cell phones all the time when pumping, driving or just sitting in the tanker and nothing.

 

I don't really care what you think about me, it seems to me you are the one that's nuts to leave your car running while fueling.

If you want to gamble with your life, fine, I don't care. Just don't do it in a way that could kill me or some other people that likes living a lot more that you obviously do.

You asked what that had to do with leaving the car running,

(1) I guess you car has no electrical system in it or
(2) your just not understanding what you are reading.

My money is on 2...

not trying to sound disrespectful just real...

 

Sorry, I don't really care about what a web site that is run buy just a hubby & wife team has to say about my safety & neither should you. I put alot more faith in my training put on buy the companies that I haul Gas & Diesel for. At the minimum I know I wont get blown up that way.
So I see your web site & I raise you 3...

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WHEN THE DEBUNKERS PRINT BUNK
Written by Jem Matzan
Mar 17, 2006 at 03:48 PM
Anyone who has been on the Internet for a few years has at least heard of Snopes.com, a site which seems to specialize in debunking popular Internet myths and urban legends. But what I recently found out about this site left me surprised and disappointed: Snopes knowingly publishes false information with the intent of teaching their readers that there are no informational authorities. How can we trust Snopes to debunk myths when the authors actively work to promote some of them?

Snopes.com: busting myths or busting chops?

If you browse through the Snopes Web site, you might come across a special area that is designed to look like every other part of the site, but with some very subtle yet significant differences. The page in question is here, and it is titled, "The Repository of Lost Legends." This page is a collection of Snopes untruths; they are stories that Snopes.com says are true, but in fact are not. If you click around and investigate further, you'll find this informational page which starts out by saying, "You've just had an encounter with False Authority Syndrome." The authors go on to say that they are trying to teach us stupid readers a lesson about relying on sites like Snopes to provide accurate information. I agree that it's a good idea to verify facts in some cases, but casual readers shouldn't have to be researchers in order to have access to the facts. That's, like, kind of the whole point of journalism. Snopes.com is not a newspaper, but if something about their publishing a whole page full of lies doesn't sit right with you, you're not alone.

Pages of false information

If you're always suspicious of what you're reading, you might notice that the title's acronym is TROLL. That is no disclaimer, though -- many people don't know what an Internet troll is, and many who do know may count it as a coincidence.

If you navigate to each Lost Legend page from the Lost Legends index and read everything carefully, you'll know that something's up. There are little disclaimers and hints in fine print here and there, but no obvious indicator that what you're reading is pure fiction -- especially if you're already familiar with Snopes and skip all of the fine print, figuring that you've read it before. The Snopes authors could, however, make a case that they give fair warning in this instance. That doesn't make their actions any less unethical....

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Don't put your HOPES in SNOPES

Posted on Fri Mar 06 2009 17:41:09 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time) by rocco55

Subject: Info on Snopes.com Always figured there was something to this. They're the ones that said that this thing with obama's birth certificate was untrue. Now we know.....

For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell all final word' on any comment, claim and email.

But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.

David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.comclaiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues. I can personally vouch for that complaint....

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December 01, 2003
Snopes.com
[Scroll down for the most recent update -- 10/25/08.]

The Urban Legends Reference Page found at Snopes.com is a frequent reference source for most internet users, so it was interesting to hear Barbara Mikkelson as a guest in a brief telephone segment on C-SPAN's Washington Journal the other morning.

Snopes.com is run by the husband and wife team of Barbara and David Mikkelson. David is a coder and web designer, and Barbara works primarily doing research for the website.

She described how she does the work, for example she explained the process of debunking the belief that colonies of alligators were living in the sewers of New York. According to the myth, baby alligators were brought from Florida but subsequently flushed to end up in the sewers where they thrived. To research this, Ms. Mikkelson searched through microfilm of the New York Times from 1903 to 1993 for alligator stories on the assumption that if the legend were true then there should have been many articles about sightings. There were a handful of sightings during that 90 year period but not enough to confirm the myth. So, Ms. Mikkelson concluded that the myth was "false"...

 

I honestly didn't read the above posted link,

This message posted using an IPad (cellular service) inside a fully loaded diesel tanker parked next to a truck with a sign saying, "Danger, explosives, turn off all radio and transmitter devices."[b/]

 

The only thing that comes to mind is...







Oh, and I fixed your attempt at bold formating for you...

 

It's not just a job, it's an adventure

This was typed up on my cellular device while I watch the wireline guys reload their gun with primer cord for the next round. Well, it's almost time for me to start refueling, better pause my movie and look like I work for a living...that and wake up my partner. If I'm not back in 30mins, you was right

 

I'm sorry that's a poor example of it hasn't happened yet so it must be true. My deal with Cell phones is in the studies I've read from the oil companies and government. The oil companies used to say no cell phones and now they say there's no scientific results with all the different labs that have tested positive for EMF influence. But there's another problem and again it's static discharge. So if a phone was ringing and the person went to answer it while refueling there could be a problem. So I misquoted when I said no cell phones. I should have went further and more specific about the electro magnetic field and if the cell phone emits enough to be a hazard.

I don't care what anybody thinks about what trucker_101 and myself have said OR anyone that loads and unloads gasoline we are the ones unloading LARGE amounts of gasoline and know more about the product than most of the general public. We have to because it's our job to know. If there's any slim chance we will always side on the safe side. We don't gamble and we don't especially like people who gamble with our lives.

 

Well it has changed a little, you now have to go through a school, mine was 2 years long.

And i agree the test for the A&P and 12 hours long EACH, and they (in Vermont) are done in 3 days, 12 hours EACH day lol.

My Teacher in school is 1 of the 2 people in the state of Vermont Certified to give the test for the A&P, and he takes that VERY seriously, 40% of the people that take the test, either Fail or give up (in Vermont by my teacher)

He started in the Army as well, but unfortunatly the FAA does not reconize that, so he had to go to school to get the A&P after wards. And then he spent 5 Years Creating the school i went too.


Sometimes I wish I had just stayed in avaition, average starting pay out of school $17.50/hr, average pay after a few years $30/hr. IA's make ALLOT more. and im trucking for .285cpm D'oh!






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