Please move from the fuel island in a timely manner

Waiting on a driver who has fueled and gone inside for whatever reason or is fueling can be annoying, but what makes me laugh is the driver who parks his or her truck while in line to fuel and goes inside for a half hour. When this driver comes back outside and the pump in front of his/her truck has been empty for 15 minutes, he or she looks like a chump. What we really need is a return to public shaming.

 

I've been sitting and waiting behind a truck and finally the driver came out only to find out he went it before fueling.
He comes out with a bag of stuff and climbs in the truck then gets out and starts fueling.
Made me a bit hot under the collar if ya know what I mean.
Lately I've had to wait a lot at the small CFN where I often fuel on my way back to the yard, plenty of parking but only two CFN pumps with a satellite pump and it seems every night there's some jackazs parked at the pump and dink'n around in the store.
WTF! why is it so hard to pull out and park so someone else can fuel,they don't even have to back it in anywhere.

 

If you are OTR and you have a good 2 days worth of fuel capacity .. just fill up every other day, if all the pumps are full on your first night, just go in and park, fill up in the morning, if still full in the morning, repeat the process the next day ...

 

I do that now. Our trucks have dual 150 gal tanks and when we switched from Comdata to EFS our fuel limit went from $500 a day to 225 gallons a day regardless of price.

Since we fuel at Loves we always hit platinum on our loves rewards for unlimited showers so we don't need to worry about having to earn a daily shower. Makes fueling every other day easier.

 

I wish pilot would do that unlimited showers... I'm jealous

 

Worst thing they did when they took over FJ was take away the 2 showers for 150+ gallons ... I don't have loyalty to any of them anymore, they are all equally garbage ...

 

you know years ago many truckstops would give you a free truckwash with a fill up , AT THE FUEL ISLAND!!!! they would give a ticket for a free meal and they had guys who would wash your truck at the fuel island.

you would have had a stroke, lol.

 

yeah that would show em, cut their air lines where they couldn't move til the service truck showed up, yep that would really show em, especially if you were the joker behind him, lol

 

I spend a lot of time in Texas and noticed a lot of the guys hauling fraking equipment take up spots at the fuel island for a hour or more. They usually will park behind and in front of each other since they seem to travel in packs. I was at the TA in East San Antonio today and I fueled, parked, showered and ate. When I came out the same 4 fraking trucks were still parked at the fuel island.

 

One day while at the hook in Whiteland IN, behind a driver who was fueling. when he got done he walked to the fuel desk.I immed got out of my truck right on his ### & just before he hit the door, I politely asked him if he could pull up so I could fuel? there was no one in front of him. he mentioned something about daydreaming & not paying attention apologized & moved. Ya know this is the same mentality when loading & someone will not pull out of a dock or bay on a sunny day to tarp, e.t.c. they will chain, tarp fix logs, just do all kinds of thing that they can do just 75 ft out of every ones way, but they choose not to.