How often do yall stop to fuel with rising rates?

about every 900 miles with 100 gallons left, same two places going out and coming back

 

Well I got a message this afternoon asking drivers to not fuel until Friday if they could help it.
The price will (should?) drop sharply on Friday.

They said "today was the single largest drop in the diesel fuel market in history, and the impact of today's price drop will be reflected in our fuel prices at the truck stops on Friday".

 

Can I ask what company you work for? Does that get you like written up, hope not lol

 

Fuel got expensive before.....in fact, about I had seen fuel get over 4 dollars in many places a decade ago. Then it dipped to under 2 bucks a gallon in a lot of places too. If everything hadn't snowballed in the last 2.5 Yeats, maybe we aren't having this dialogue....to answer the original question, most of the time I get fuel when it runs down to about a ¼ tank. That's about every 1000 miles or so. We have suggested fuel stops but sometimes they don't make sense so I audible it. We use PFJ, so I have all the ones we use starred on the app, that way I remember where they get their discounts. They won't say anything as long as you use one that they prefer you use. On a long haul, they'll give me 3 fuel stops but I may need only 2 of them. Most of the time 1 fill up per load gets it. If it's a shorter load, 300 or 400 mile range, I can sometimes run 2 of those on one tank depending on how deadhead I have. Now sometimes I may top off if I know it'll be a while before I can get to a PFJ. It all depends on that particular run.

 

I usually let the pump decide when to shut off if I am given a fuel stop saying to pump x gallons.
Hovering over the pump to shut it off at just the right time is a bore, and if I am authorized for a certain amount then the pump should shut off at that amount.

I understand the companies desire to save a few cents per gallon and make me take the time to make multiple fuel stops, but I am also on a schedule that is sometimes very tight on time.
And I consider my time just as valuable.

It seems always a fight over fuel stops, idle time and the like.
Another message came in about the cost of fuel and idling, saying to use the bunk heater unless it was 15 degrees or less.
But my bunk heater does not work.
I have been in 3 shops to fix it, and no fix.
So I idle if it is barely cold enough to idle the truck, just to stay warm enough.

 

We don't have any restrictions on place or price. With a small fuel tank, around 72 useable gallons, we will fuel 2 or 3 times a day.
We fuel every 150 to 300 miles depending on conditions.
We get paid for the on duty time so it is tolerable.

 

I absolutely HATED the singe 100gal tank on long runs. A 1700mi trip to Texas or north Dakota in oilfield trucks that got 4.5mpg Lol. Oh geeze I gotta fuel again already

 

Yeah, I gotmthe same message. I've been trying to find out any info about it, but can't seem to find any news stories that might explain it. I filled up (115 gal) earlier today, before the message came out. Only went about 300 miles since the fuel stop and will be taking next couple days off. So, it's gonna be easy for me to wait. I don't have to do anything.

 

We went from 100 to 80 a few yrs ago and we questioned why.
The man bun skinny jean college crowd at corporate deduced how much extra product we could haul with the weight savings achieved from the smaller aluminum tank..lol
But they forget to factor in the cost of a fuel stop in wages, the higher priced truck stop fuel vs our bulk plant fuel, not to mention the 20 minute average of time lost.
Oh well.