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holstein13
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Nov 24, 2014

Do you turn off your engine at the gas station?

Yesterday was my first time ever filling up my new diesel pusher at the truck lanes at the Pilot in Marianna, FL. It was raining heavily when I arrived. What seemed odd to me was that not a single b...
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buta4
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Nov 24, 2014
2 Retired wrote:
Why wouldn't you turn it off? Too many things could happen, none of them good, if you leave your engine running while refueling. I turn off my car, RV, motorcycle, anything when putting something like combustible fuel into the vehicle! I agree - don't understand why the commercial vehicles don't do so.


Probably because fumes stay low and truck exhausts are 12 feet up?

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