Getting fuel into both tanks

To the OP, a few truckstops have the right and left fuel pums staggered maybe 3 ft so that you really just have to guess if both sides will reach the tanks when you fuel.....after 30 years of doing this i still blow it occasionally.

BTW most truckstops have both pumps even with each other.

 

Im new to trucking and #### if it wasnt embarrassing the first time I encountered one of these setups.. I got out.. put comdata and all my info in... Started driver side tank.. then walked around the the otherside ... I had to be about a half foot short. Shortest hose I have ever seen and it was offset from the driverside pump. Live n learn I guess

 

There are fuel hoses on the passenger side of the truck called satellite pumps for quick fueling both tanks. If we are metering fuel (for various reasons such as weight and/or State fuel taxes) and not going to fill up totally we'll put fuel in just one tank. The fuel will equalize between both tanks eventually because there is a cross feed hose connected to both tanks. In addition to this many trucks have tank cutoff valves so the driver can choose which tank he/she wants the engine to operate from.

 

There is one place we use (as a backup) that's right up the street from home base and it only has one pump.

I've seen guys try to stretch the hose across the back, but what I find works best-simple, is to pull the truck up to the end of the island nose to the pump. The hose is long enough to reach past the hood and steers and hit the tank. Fill one side cross over to the other.

Never seen anyone else do it though. They must all think I'm crazy.

 

Well if you dont have double gas pumps you sometimes will either pass the hose over or under the truck if it is long enough to the passenger side or you will have to turn around and fill it there is no cross fill system only a cross feed for the engine

 

In Canada where many cardlocks still only have one long hose, I usually park a little further back and open the hood in order to pass the hose over to the other side as on a Freightliner the filler neck is bellow the doors.

Unlike the SLOB I once saw pass the hose through the cab!

 

I don't have these problems... 1 - 568 litre tank drivers side is all I need...

 

the tanks are connected by a small fuel line. Gravity makes them even out. On my truck the fuel sensor is in the right side tank. If I fill the left side tank, the guage goes up gradually, takes about half an hour to even out