Our trucks have a small chipped sticker on the windscreens that are supposed to turn the pumps on in the fuel isle we stop at as soon as we arrive, I don’t know if you have them in the UK ? They are a pain in the ■■■, they are only set up tp work at either TA, Petro or Loves truck stops, to this day I have never been able to get the things to work, I get out of the cab the screen on the pump says “Enter your driver id” I do so and each time it tells me I do not exist, at Loves this is annoying because when I press the cancel sale it will not return to the normal screen, I stand there kicking the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes until it prompts me to insert my fuel card. At a TA or Petro it gives me a better option as soon as I arrive, I get the override system and use fuel card, which I of course do. The point about the stupid system is that even if it worked properly we still have to insert our cards and enter all the details FFS. I sometimes feel like covering the chip in tin foil to stop the thing being detected. I avoid Loves truck stops at all costs anyway, I hate those places.
Surely given how much you are respected by your company this could be resolved “in minutes” by making a quick call to your CEO, no ? 
15 minutes on the pump? Sorry it wouldn’t read my chip.
(What breaks are required in the USA?)
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Cool story bro 
Rob k, You male me laugh, if only you knew 
Anyway, in answer to the ‘Break’ question we have to take a 30 minute break before 8 hours duty but if we are at a fuel pump the elog will record that we are filling up and we get a violation.
Rob K:
Surely given how much you are respected by your company this could be resolved “in minutes” by making a quick call to your CEO, no ?
I really don’t understand why you think I don’t converse and chat with the CEO and VP of the company, these guys come to our terminals whenever they can and when I first started talking to either of them it was my job to do so, I was made Yonkers supervisor by the VP after a request from the manager of Domino sugar, Yonkers had no manager at the time and he needed a Foodliner employee to communicate with, I was the longest serving driver at the terminal and he chose me, it was my job to also notify the VP and general manager of any problems with the refinery or drivers, we became good friends. It is not bullcrap or make believe, we are good friends and we talk privately on a regular basis, the last chat we had was about my cancer and he has actually suggested getting me an automatic truck (something we don’t use on the company) just to ease my leg pains.
You seem to think that a driver can’t possibly be friends with someone so senior and I don’t understand it 
Pat Hasler:
Rob K:
Surely given how much you are respected by your company this could be resolved “in minutes” by making a quick call to your CEO, no ?I really don’t understand why you think I don’t converse and chat with the CEO and VP of the company, these guys come to our terminals whenever they can and when I first started talking to either of them it was my job to do so, I was made Yonkers supervisor by the VP after a request from the manager of Domino sugar, Yonkers had no manager at the time and he needed a Foodliner employee to communicate with, I was the longest serving driver at the terminal and he chose me, it was my job to also notify the VP and general manager of any problems with the refinery or drivers, we became good friends. It is not bullcrap or make believe, we are good friends and we talk privately on a regular basis, the last chat we had was about my cancer and he has actually suggested getting me an automatic truck (something we don’t use on the company) just to ease my leg pains.
You seem to think that a driver can’t possibly be friends with someone so senior and I don’t understand it
^ Exactly my point. You repeatedly brag about sorting things out for other drivers “within minutes” by ringing your company CEO, yet the incredibly trivial matter of a fuel station not recognising your own driver number causing you to “kick[ing] the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes” is apparently too much of a taboo subject that you can’t raise it with your CEO and good friend in any of your regular, private talks.
Just me? 
I stand there kicking the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes until it prompts me to insert my fuel card
Now i can forsee the police turning up as per previous post (re parking at home), although maybe they wont be quite as nice, unless they realise its the star driver of course. 
Or could just remove said tag since no one else ever uses that truck, and use your fuel card just like the rest of the world?
Really surprised there isnt attendant service so lazy truckers dont have to get off their seats. Everything else seems to be drive through these days.
So why don’t you just cover it over or rip it out?
Pat Hasler:
Our trucks have a small chipped sticker on the windscreens that are supposed to turn the pumps on in the fuel isle we stop at as soon as we arrive, I don’t know if you have them in the UK ? They are a pain in the ■■■, they are only set up tp work at either TA, Petro or Loves truck stops, to this day I have never been able to get the things to work, I get out of the cab the screen on the pump says “Enter your driver id” I do so and each time it tells me I do not exist, at Loves this is annoying because when I press the cancel sale it will not return to the normal screen, I stand there kicking the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes until it prompts me to insert my fuel card. At a TA or Petro it gives me a better option as soon as I arrive, I get the override system and use fuel card, which I of course do. The point about the stupid system is that even if it worked properly we still have to insert our cards and enter all the details FFS. I sometimes feel like covering the chip in tin foil to stop the thing being detected. I avoid Loves truck stops at all costs anyway, I hate those places.
Approach slower … a lot of the london bus companies have a similar system and it probably only works 7 out of 10 times either buses approach to fast or too close to the bus in front
Rob K:
Pat Hasler:
Rob K:
Surely given how much you are respected by your company this could be resolved “in minutes” by making a quick call to your CEO, no ?I really don’t understand why you think I don’t converse and chat with the CEO and VP of the company, these guys come to our terminals whenever they can and when I first started talking to either of them it was my job to do so, I was made Yonkers supervisor by the VP after a request from the manager of Domino sugar, Yonkers had no manager at the time and he needed a Foodliner employee to communicate with, I was the longest serving driver at the terminal and he chose me, it was my job to also notify the VP and general manager of any problems with the refinery or drivers, we became good friends. It is not bullcrap or make believe, we are good friends and we talk privately on a regular basis, the last chat we had was about my cancer and he has actually suggested getting me an automatic truck (something we don’t use on the company) just to ease my leg pains.
You seem to think that a driver can’t possibly be friends with someone so senior and I don’t understand it^ Exactly my point. You repeatedly brag about sorting things out for other drivers “within minutes” by ringing your company CEO, yet the incredibly trivial matter of a fuel station not recognising your own driver number causing you to “kick[ing] the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes” is apparently too much of a taboo subject that you can’t raise it with your CEO and good friend in any of your regular, private talks.
Just me?
Because it’s not my job to air drivers differences anymore. I have cancer and do not want the stress, he understands that so see’s that the only person I should take care of at work is myself/ Actually after you mentioned asking him, I did, he gave me a new id to use that he got some woman in HQ to authorize, today I got it to work at a TA in CT, still have to insert my dam rewards card though.
. Last time I spoke with him in the flesh was in Albany NY 2 months ago, I was in the workshop and had no idea he was visiting the terminal, he walked up behind me, patted my shoulder and asked “How’s the new truck going Pat ? Do you like the automatic ?”
“It’s not an automatic” I said. Now he is trying to get a new auto for me because of the pain in my legs from the chemotherapy.
Pat Hasler:
Because it’s not my job to air drivers differences anymore. I have cancer and do not want the stress, he understands that so see’s that the only person I should take care of at work is myself/ Actually after you mentioned asking him, I did, he gave me a new id to use that he got some woman in HQ to authorize, today I got it to work at a TA in CT, still have to insert my dam rewards card though.
. Last time I spoke with him in the flesh was in Albany NY 2 months ago, I was in the workshop and had no idea he was visiting the terminal, he walked up behind me, patted my shoulder and asked “How’s the new truck going Pat ? Do you like the automatic ?”
“It’s not an automatic” I said. Now he is trying to get a new auto for me because of the pain in my legs from the chemotherapy.
Pat Hasler:
I stand there kicking the crap out of the pump for 10 minutes
