Do you carry extra fuel
We do a lot of driving at over night and on our trip last year I almost ran out of diesel because a couple of gas station were closed and the ones that were open didn't have diesel. I try to plan our ...
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2oldman wrote:Lokin4deer wrote:Sounds like you need a GPS and maybe a smart phone too.
Except for the fact my wife missed the exit inadvertently so we drove on past it and didn't realize it.....I would have paid a premium to have an extra 50 miles of fuel. There was a State patrol at the second station and he told me the next exit had a truck stop and was open 24 hours and was 20 miles away.
No one is saying you'll "never" need 5 gallons of fuel, but that story is not likely to happen again any time soon. Driving at night does have its challenges, so in the future you may want to be better prepared for finding fuel. And even if you install a 50 gallon auxiliary tank, there will still be reasons to plan if you do late-night driving.
Actually her smart phone has GPS and we were using that for the trip its self but she was using the Walmart app to find the nearest Walmart and that is how we missed it.
