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Originally Posted by GMAN
I was at a truck stop the other day and they had a sign posted that if you park at their fuel island you will have your truck towed.
Every truckstop has a sign like that, it seems, but nobody actually enforces it. I used to have to navigate through three rows of crooked trucks parked by a huge NO PARKING THIS SIDE OF FUEL ISLAND OR YOU WILL BE TOWED sign every night, but that was OK, because at least I could get to the fuel island straight away 99% of the time, once I ran the gantlet.
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I suggest talking to the store manager and let them handle it.
I waited 20 or so minutes trying to get a chance to talk to somebody. They were too busy to need my business.
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If not, call the drivers company and talk to them.
There was no info on the truck or trailer. I guess I should have written down ICC numbers and/or plates, or tried to get look at the receipt before mine from that pump, but I was too pissed to think that clearly.
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And if you get stuck behind a driver such as that again and someone is behind you, ask the guy behind to back up.
There was nowhere for him to go either. The whole place was completely jammed up like sardines in a can. I surmise perhaps there were other steering wheel holders sucking down fried chicken that day.
Oh well, welcome to the real world. The bottom line is probably less about Love's or this particular driver, and a lot more about why I always used to fuel late at night. This is less something that just happened, and more something that I just suddenly had to start enduring in the course of doing my job; just like everybody else out here.
It sucks though. Just one more way I never realized how good I had it at New Energy until they kicked us all to the curb one day. I really more than half wish I had been able to hang it up successfully, and walk away from all this, but I am drawn to piloting an 18-wheeler like a moth to a candle. (Or else I am successfully coping with the fact that there is no market for any of my other skills, and I am stuck in this trade if I want to keep making my house payment. I don't know which is the truth, honestly.)
Anyway, good advice GMAN.