How NOT to fill your fuel tanks

So get a corndog from @Dave_in_AZ .

 

ATS of St Cloud MN issued me a truck with a 145 gallon tank, calling it a over the road tractor. What it really was a twice a day fill.

There were times Ive been about 3 gallons in the bottom of that tank where the intake hole is where the liquid is below the top part making it possible for it, to inhale air. (How is that for a run on sentence?)

The reason is the paper logs. There was a incident where I was out of fuel in Madison WI at 3PM, but also out of hours until Midnight recap with 4 hours next day against the 70. So It's 20 degrees outside and on wabco slurping what little precious there is at the bottom parked 40 some foot away from the nearest diesel pump. Started the engine. clutched it low gear kicked it and then shut off drifting to place where the filler hose was.

That was a 141 gallon fill. Out of 145. I think a few gallons were not complete to 145 because of the air space between the click off and bottom of the fuel fill rim of tank.

All Anderson Trucking had to do was to issue me a tractor with 300 plus gallon tanks. But no. They never did so it was a constant problem against the logs. (I was pretty much a outlaw prior to that company with two exceptions and that is why I keep referring to the HOS as a liability combined with running out of fuel with ATS aka Another Tow Service...) They were not bad as far as companies go. It was money that blew up in the end with them (Which really hurt them)

 

I just saw an ATS oversize driver have his escort dump water into def tank. Black Coronado sd.

 

KW tank vents plug up after a while. Mine used to slobber fuel around the caps after i fueled up. Tank vent kits cured that.

 

Lol good ol ATS.

common to see them flying down the middle lane carrying an oversized dozer during rush hour barely squeezing by.

I will say their drivers have some balls.

 

that is when a filler is at an angle, I've seen clowns with the filler ports vertical, fill their tanks up till it was overflowing.

 

Been filling my truck up for 8 yrs and never and a problem.

 

How? Do you spend the extra 4 min burping them until the fuel level is up to top of the tank neck?

 

Yup

 

Freightliner does not need burping.
Every one I've ever drive had equalizing tube between tanks.
But than again I don't see those on new trucks. Could be transfer pump maybe.