Why is it that at any given time there may only be two cars at a gas station, and they will both be at the pumps that have gas and diesel. It seems like everyone believes that those two pumps should be the first two to go to. I wish people would be considerate, and if there is a pump open other than the diesel pump they would fill their gas car at a gas only pump. I also cant stand getting looks from idiots who are wondering why I am waiting behind a car at a pump when there are 15 other pumps not being used. Cant they hear that my truck is a diesel? Cant they reason that they are the reason I am waiting behind them, and its not because Im stupid and dont see the other GAS pumps. I think stations need to put signs up or more stations other than truck stops need diesel only pumps.

 

lol that happens to me too!they dont get it!

 

I hear you on that one, but even bigger pet peeve is why do the gas stations only have one pump with diesel?

 

thats why i pull up until i'm a 1" from their bumper and sit there until they move and look at them the whole time

 

I understand exactly what you mean. I just want to hook on their CARS and yank then out of the f***ing way! I always tell them next time to use the other pump.

 

I usually pull up behind them at the pump, put the truck on high idle and let it run...

 

This is a good idea. I hope that they will get the point and not do it again.

 

I usually just calmly drink another beer while waiting.

 

maybe the next time i'll put the truck in smoke lope they'd get the point then

 

That's not unique to your area and no they can't tell it's a diesel.

They are too busy on their cell phone.
It's always the metro guy or the middle-aged woman there who doesn't understand that they are in the way and no you can't use the other pump.

Usually when I need to fill up with diesel I'm in dad's 6 liter. That truck is pretty loud when it's idling. I usually try to pull up as close behind them as I can so it inconveniences them. They usually move at that point.

They go to the diesel pumps because around here they are usually the easiest to pull up to. Mainly because most diesel vehicles are pulling trailers or have large bodies so the station designers try to make diesel pumps easily accessible to the vehicles that need them.

Unfortunately the station owner decides he can make more money off that pump if it has diesel AND gas. That's where the problem comes in.

The idiots that take diesel pumps do it because it's convenient. If you inconvenience them (make it so they can't hear their cell phone) they will move most of the time.

Fortunately for me I can usually make it to a large fueling station about 10 minutes away from company HQ that sells diesel ONLY and has VERY fast pumps. To the point of filling up the 100 gallon transfer tank faster than the pumps at Mobil can fill up half of the other truck's 40 gallon tank.

I always laugh when I see idiots pull into that station in gassers and can't figure out where the gas pumps are. Or even better is the morons who try to fill their gasser with diesel only to find out the nozzle can't fit into their car's filler neck.

 

Or when your filling up and it takes forever (38gal, no vent mod) and they are looking at you like your taking toooo long. Thats when I start cleaning windows, headlights, rear veiw mirrors......

 

I love the truck stops too. Don't have to worry about the foreigners in their imports in the way at the truck stops.

 

sounds all too familiar. i usually put the lope or high idle on and get as close as I can. I wish they would make a diesel only pump, but business practice tells you not to, becuase there are more gassers than diesels. ughhhhh the trials and tribulations of bein a diesel owner

 

i pulled in right behind a guy that went to the split pumps he was driving a high end car in a suit talking on his cell phone. i pull up to his bumper and waited like i always do. he got out to pump and looked at me and the other pumps woundering why i was right behind him. talking on his cell he failed to notice he pumped about diesel in his car. i guess i should have said something.

 

That's what the guy gets for talking on his phone. Wonder how far he actually made it before his car quit. I give him to just making it out of the parking lot.