Gas tanker truck at station when you go...

[JimPghPA]

Sometimes if you have extra time, it's wise to reduce a one in a billion chance to zero. Especially if all it cost you time you have to use anyway.

I was thinking of this thread yesterday when I used my spare time to opt to stop and not follow a long white tanker truck through the liberty tunnel. Instead, I stopped and waited a few minutes for it to have enough time to completely go through the tunnel and then some, before I entered. It was a very long completely round tank painted white and very clean with beams supporting it well below it. I think it was oxygen but I could not read it's placker from where I was. It was longer than a gasoline tanker, but the diameter of the tank was less than a gasoline tanker. Some people think oxygen is safe to be around, but there's always plenty for it to react with if it escapes in large volumes quickly.

The chance of that tanker causing a serious problem was probably something like less than one in a trillion. But not zero, and I was more than 45 minutes early for the appointment I was going to, so why not.

 

[TimeFlies]

Sometimes if you have extra time, it's wise to reduce a one in a billion chance to zero. Especially if all it cost you time you have to use anyway.

I was thinking of this thread yesterday when I used my spare time to opt to stop and not follow a long white tanker truck through the liberty tunnel. Instead, I stopped and waited a few minutes for it to have enough time to completely go through the tunnel and then some, before I entered.

The chance of that tanker causing a serious problem was probably something like less than one in a trillion. But not zero, and I was more than 45 minutes early for the appointment I was going to, so why not.

Some of you may have noticed ( probably not) that I wasn't on the forum the past few weeks. It was because I've been driving a lot, hauling fuel to stations, cardlocks, mines, ranches, etc. I put on a lot of kms hauling fuel, and not a day goes by that when I get home, I'm thankful that another day went by where nobody hit my truck. I'm very aware that someone slamming into me could end in a large catastrophe. Its one thing if some rams a semi load of groceries, or office supplies, compared to a fuel tanker. That point isn't lost on me, and I think it makes me extra hyper sensitive to how ever car approaches a stop sign, or turns left in front of me. Are they actually going to stop, or are they going to try and make that turn in front of me when im this close. I drove logging trucks for many years, and never felt the same as I do now hauling fuel. If someone T bones my load of logs, oh well. If they T bone my tank and tear it open, that's not going to be a good day.

 

[JimPghPA]

I saw a TV article many years ago, where an oxygen tanker had a decent leak. The driver stopped. People watching said it looked like a fog all over the road around that tanker. The road was asphalt. The driver stepped down from the cab and when his food touched the asphalt the entire road exploded.

I once worked with an engineer who in his younger days was a crew member of a US long range nuclear bomber. One day he told me that the order of things to be concerned about was: 1) major oxygen leak, 2) the bombs.

It's amazing how oxygen not being a fuel, almost always finds a fuel if leaked in large quantity. And because it supports combustion so well often it does not take much to get it to ignite.

Many many years ago, a local steel mill had gas supply lines in many locations within the mill. Pressurized air for air tools like jack-hammers, oxygen, and actelyteline for cutting and welding, nitrogen for some applications that required it. All using the same quick-connect, just each painted a specificity color to indicate what gas. One day someone connected a jackhammer to an oxygen supply connection, and when he pulled the triger to run that hammer it exploded. He was lucky and did not get killed. But after that all the fittings were changed to physically only work with the correct equiptment.

 

[Patman]

Fuel is fine Wayyyyy beyond 3 months.

Properly stored it's fine for several years.

I think it’s totally overkill for people who store their cars for winter to put fuel stabilizer in there even though the storage period is only 3 months.

That being said I suppose it’s a safe thing to do just in case the car ends up sitting much longer. My father put fuel stabilizer in his 83 Alfa Romeo Spyder at the time he put it away one winter but then he didn’t end up driving it for more than two years.

 

[TimeFlies]

I think it’s totally overkill for people who store their cars for winter to put fuel stabilizer in there even though the storage period is only 3 months.

That being said I suppose it’s a safe thing to do just in case the car ends up sitting much longer. My father put fuel stabilizer in his 83 Alfa Romeo Spyder at the time he put it away one winter but then he didn’t end up driving it for more than two years.

My out of season stuff typically sits 6 months or more, snowmobiles, snowblower, lawn mower, 69 Dart, outboards, jetskis, motorcycles, motorcycles, ice auger, AtVs, weed whacker, etc and I have never once had a problem with anything, even sitting 10 months.

 

[Sumboodie]

Some of you may have noticed ( probably not) that I wasn't on the forum the past few weeks. It was because I've been driving a lot, hauling fuel to stations, cardlocks, mines, ranches, etc. I put on a lot of kms hauling fuel, and not a day goes by that when I get home, I'm thankful that another day went by where nobody hit my truck. I'm very aware that someone slamming into me could end in a large catastrophe. Its one thing if some rams a semi load of groceries, or office supplies, compared to a fuel tanker. That point isn't lost on me, and I think it makes me extra hyper sensitive to how ever car approaches a stop sign, or turns left in front of me. Are they actually going to stop, or are they going to try and make that turn in front of me when im this close. I drove logging trucks for many years, and never felt the same as I do now hauling fuel. If someone T bones my load of logs, oh well. If they T bone my tank and tear it open, that's not going to be a good day.

I haul oil and hazmat but rarely deal with traffic.

 

[The motor guy]

i once asked the costco guy tending to the gas station how many times a day a tanker came. he told me 3-4 times a day. that is a lot of gas. this was a pretty busy costco though

I know. How do you know they didn't just leave? Some of those guys drop 10,000 gallons in 15 minutes and they're outta there.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I just left an Irving this weekend that was getting a fuel dump. I get bad E10 fuel around here all too often. Gots some bad stuff in the Ford recently.. Trying to stay with two known good stations. One Irving, one EXxon.
Car seems to like a Irving / Exxon detergent mix.

 

[RazorsEdge]

Never had an issue myself.

I have started to use the MR. Funnel with the riding mower. I was dumping the rest of the Trufuel in the tank and thanks to the funnel, I found water so it's already done a good thing.