Where get gas with trailer attached

pitch wrote:
Question for you guys that know your gas stops before you leave. How? Why? Is it that you always travel the same route? I just cannot imagine that level of planning. You never get stuck at an accident scene or in construction that messes your schedule up?
Never are distracted by an alternate unplanned attraction?

I don't know, I am out to relax and explore, tight logistics and planning would kind of take the fun out of it for me.

Don't know exactly what type of RV you are pulling, maybe a 22' TT or truck camper, maybe you could care less about height restrictions, don't know any of your details.

We are full time and tow anywhere between 5,000 and 15,000 miles a year. Fiver is 39'2" long and weighs right at 16,000. It takes me about 2 minutes to pull up my Pilot I-phone app and make a note of all the Flying-J or Pilot truck stops on the days route. I may make a note of 5 of them and not need any. On the other hand we may want to stop a couple of extra times and most of them are really good places to park (if you can handle backing into a semi parking space). I also consult a site on my computer which list every rest area in the U.S. on a map. I make a quick note of where those are and that may take me another minute or two. And lastly, since my height is 13'5" I consult my Trucker's Atlas to make sure there are no low clearance issues on my days route.

So my 10 minutes of "tight logistics and planning" does not take the fun out of it. For me it is just the opposite. I feel a certain responsibility to tow this large/heavy of a rig safely down the road. I never want to be caught in a situation where I have driven up to an overpass that is too low for me to get under, and then like some idiot I am wanting everyone else on the road to wait while I figure out how to back up and go another way. I also don't want to be that RVer that tries to squeeze into a busy gas station, which was designed for cars, with a 39' fiver and expects everyone else to wait because I am blocking 4 other pumps.

When you start traveling in larger RV's you really have to change your traveling habits a little. It is not the same as zipping across the country in your mini van on vacation, IMHO.