Stopping for grub n gas
Do you just look for truck stops. Any suggestions or clues to look for so I don't pull off and find places I can't fit. I'm pulling a 33 foot travel trailer. Thanks and happy camping
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:NCWriter wrote:
That way you'll not only see where the best recent diesel prices are
I have found a real problem with the GasBuddy App. It relates to price reporting.
Over the past three months I've seen about two dozen Murphy USA/ Walmart stations closed. They were rebuilding / upgrading the stations. This is in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas.
In the Dallas/Plano are I've seen several Racetrack stations closed for rebuilds/ upgrades.
Yet all these stations were reported in GasBuddy as having recent fuel price updates - within the past six hours.
After some complaints to GasBuddy, and even getting so far as to talk to a real person in their customer service staff - this is what happens.
A company like Murphy USA or RaceTrack or Exxon or such will send out their daily price change to their various stations.
And they have a program which goes out to GasBuddy and updates the fuel prices at all their stations.
Having been in corporate IT dealing with in-store systems and price updates - I understand the technical reasons that stores which are not actually in operation/ open get price updates.
So what we are seeing on GasBuddy likely more than half the time are messages from the corporate HQ reporting the latest prices - disguised by GasBuddy as reports from customers.
That's really interesting. I've never arrived at a closed station that had a report on GasBuddy, but I then again I haven't been out west lately.
Posts usually have user names like eddie9208 or Jeff301. I guess corporations could create user names, and if they send a truthful price, I don't have a problem with it. If it's a fake price or a closed station, I'd vote with my wheels. Sure wouldn't create good will for the brand.
It's good you reported it. Maybe Gas Buddy can add a mechanism for reporting such things as obviously closed stations on a future upgrade. I like that they now make it possible to report "cash price" which is beginning to appear on the app's prices, so you get a clearer picture of the true price before you head for that station.
