Stopping For Gas

wing_zealot wrote:

4aSong wrote:

wing_zealot wrote:

I sometimes travel 500 - 600 miles a day. I have even went over a 1,200 miles before I unhooked and set up camp. How would you recommend I fill up when the trailer is not connected?

Follow Johno02's advise...
If you are going that far each day, your aren't RVing, you are just driving! Stop and enjoy the flowers!

This is not about me and how far I want to go, to go camping. This is about how sooner or later, if you do this long enough, and venture more then 25 miles from home, every camper is going to have to get gas with the camper hooked up. Your advice just isn't practical. Hundreds of people do it every day.

Wingzealot is dead on correct.

It isn't always "practical" to "stop and smell the flowers" unless you are planning to NEVER venture more than a few miles from home..

If I followed that advice it would take FOUR DAYS ONE WAY to get to my normal destinations!!! I typically travel 800 miles and will easily cover that in one day..

My older trucks which had 29 gallon tanks meant that I was stopping every 150-200 miles for fuel due to the lack of fuel stops with easy on/off access.

My current truck has a 35 gallon tank but still was having to short hop in a couple of places..

I added a small 15 gallon "landscaper" fuel tank to my truck bed and now I can make 800 miles with only ONE fuel stop..



Added a electric fuel pump to that tank and now I just stop at any rest stop and transfer the fuel..

As far as the OPs issue, reject any station that funnels the traffic towards the station building (I have learned that the hard way and had to BACK OUT of the lot and on to a busy road)..

You want a station that funnels the traffic parallel to the station building and has decent sized entrance/exits.

And unlike some advice that says any station is fine because the stations get the fuel via tank trucks (semi),I say don't believe that..

Tankers refilling the station DO NOT USE THE PUMPS, PERIOD when refilling the station.. Instead they are at the side, in front, behind the station.. They don't have to jockey to get close to the pumps..

Tankers unlike RVs have a very HIGH clearance under the tank and will not high center easily unlike a RV trailer.. So you also need to make sure the entrance/exits have a very low (or no) slope on/off the main road..

Ignore that advice and you will find yourself dragging not only the rear of your trailer but the TONGUE JACK ALSO (I HAVE been there done that).. This gets even more important the LONGER the trailer is, folks with short 18-20 ft trailers simply do not understand this..

I do, I went from a 20ft TT to a 26ft TT, stations I was able to get into before, I can no longer easily get in/out of without dragging, BADLY)..