What would you have done?

[Dave Sweetman]

Pulled up to the fuel island at the Amarillo Petro, behind a John Christner truck. He fuels, pulls up and fuels his reefer tank, then finishes his windows and pulls ahead and parks. He then shoots the breeze with another JC driver in the next bay.

I pull up, stick the slave nozzle in my left tank before walking around to call in the info and have the master turned on on the passenger side. Glance at the meter and the numbers are running...JC's driver never hung up the master and I'm pumping fuel on his dime, so I click it off and call in on the phone. Chiquita no comprende mas, so I 'esplain what happened and she is muy loco.

I walk up to the JC driver and ask him how much reefer fuel he thinks he got and looks at me like I'm stoopit, til I 'splain to him too. I told him I'm not picky and care less about a couple bucks, I just don't want to beat him [or his company] out of anything that ain't mine. Now, I knew, from my last fuel stop that I should have only been able to put in about 75 gallons, so I finished fueling after a restart and went to pay my bill.

The JC driver was freaked that his numbers would come out wrong and he'd catch hell, but I again, assured him that it was no biggie. The shift manager did the right math, split the tickets and thanked me for being honest. JC's guy had the correct amount, I had the correct amount and everyone went away in good stead.

What would you have done?

[Capt._Chaos]

Dave, you did the right thing! Honesty is the ONLY way!

I had a similar situation happen to me at the Petro in San Antonio recently, except the pumps didn't shut off & reset after I was done fueling. The driver that fueled after me (a company driver) was observant and was curious as to why the meter read 220 gallons after only 10 seconds! :yikes: I happened to remember exactly how many gallong I bought (200), and told the fuel desk manager. He refigured our fuel purchases, and we got charged accordingly.

Fortunately, in my case, there's still at least one other honest driver I had the pleasure of dealing with! :)

[Chiefwhatdahey]

Remember the old analog numbers on the pumps? I had a set of pumps stop counting at thirty five gallons (1991?) I didn't notice till I had pumped far more than 35 gals. went inside found mgr and explained dilemma, mgr said by law there was nothing that could be done but thanked me anyway i ended up with many extra gals. for no extra $ :)

[nitestar]

Dave

I would like to thinkI would do the same as you.

yeah capt. honisty is and always will be best policy unless you are the son of the compny owner then you can lie you azz off and get away with it. if you see this driver is is nothing cuz he doesn't know how to do the right thing the company i am talking about is MinKota transfer out of madison mn the drver made it possible for non of there trucks to go to my home state (state I was born in) california and the lucky driver or should i say unlucky is Cristipher Seaslog

big dave i think he knows this company not sure

[Dave Sweetman]

yeah capt. honisty is and always will be best policy unless you are the son of the compny owner then you can lie you azz off and get away with it. if you see this driver is is nothing cuz he doesn't know how to do the right thing the company i am talking about is MinKota transfer out of madison mn the drver made it possible for non of there trucks to go to my home state (state I was born in) california and the lucky driver or should i say unlucky is Cristipher Seaslog

big dave i think he knows this company not sure

Just curious, Sir...what does this have to do with my post? I'm sorry that you know some slugs in the industry, but hijacking my thread makes little sense to me.

[White Dog]

Dave; you gotta give ironeagle some slack I think----he seems he is not "all there"---and has been "dropping names" in every other thread. He'll probably get suied sooner or later (if he's for real).


But; anyway, I know for a fact I'd have done exactally the same as you did.
Only thing different is....if the Christner driver had screwed with me too hard after trying to make things right
I walk up to the JC driver and ask him how much reefer fuel he thinks he got and looks at me like I'm stoopit I'd have dropped the conversation and let him pay up to that point.

[Dave Sweetman]

yeah, WD...I know what you're saying. It was cool, tho...the JC driver was actually kinda knocked out that I was trying to help him and not stick him with the bill. He was a bit embarassed, I think and trying to "Macho Out" with his Bro. That's what made it fun for me to be a nice guy...I didn't want him to take a beating at the pump, when I caught the mistake.

Sometimes it's fun being the good guy. Most of ya'll know that. The ones who don't, well....phhhhht.... :harhar:

yeah capt. honisty is and always will be best policy unless you are the son of the compny owner then you can lie you azz off and get away with it. if you see this driver is is nothing cuz he doesn't know how to do the right thing the company i am talking about is MinKota transfer out of madison mn the drver made it possible for non of there trucks to go to my home state (state I was born in) california and the lucky driver or should i say unlucky is Cristipher Seaslog

big dave i think he knows this company not sure

Just curious, Sir...what does this have to do with my post? I'm sorry that you know some slugs in the industry, but hijacking my thread makes little sense to me.

that not every driver is honest or do the right thing at the fuel islands at truckstops.

[towstrap]

Damm Dave, glad to see there are still some good guys left. I was brought up to be honest that it is easier to beg forgiveness.

Good Job, you'll probably live and extra hour for your good deed.