Credit card shows invalid at truck stop pumps

RinconVTR wrote:
Typical consumer cards are not used at truck stops and diesel fuel pumps.

And if your history does not reflect consistent use of such pumps, they are blocked for your own protection because of the high tabs typically seen at them.

All you do is call your CC company and tell them. Its literally a couple mouse clicks to allow these charges to go thru in the future.

Although this is logical, don't bother trying to use logical intelligent reasoning IF you have a Wells-Fargo account. If I stick my WF card in a Flying J, or Pilot truck island pump, my card locks up instantly. I have to call the idiots to get their "fraud prevention specialist" to unfreeze the account. I actually had a conversation that went like this, on one such call:

Me: How can I resolve this issue, to prevent you from freezing my account every time I attempt to fuel my motorhome.
WFI: (Wells-Fargo Idiot) Well sir, if we saw a pattern of such purchases we would allow the transaction to go through.
Me: How would one develop a pattern of such purchases when you will not allow a single one to take place?
WFI: Silence.............
Me: Did the profound stupidity of your last statement leave you speechless?

Now this is the same company that just froze my card at the first place I tried to buy fuel at in the Yukon, while returning to the lower 48, from Alaska.

Me: Any clue as to why you froze my card again?
WFI: Well sir, you did not notify us that you were traveling internationally.
Me: Please read the Email you sent confirming my travel itinerary.
The one where you list the areas we agreed that I would be traveling in.
WFI: CA.OR.WA.Canada,AK.......
Me: Ok, now tell me, when exactly did CANADA become the 51st state.
WFI: More stupidity induced silence, followed by, "Well sir, your card will be usable in the next 90 seconds"