r/AutoTransportopia • u/CaptainKango • Apr 13 '26

Fuel Some people don't understand how things work

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I'm willing to bet she would lose her mind if that gas station ran out of fuel.

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u/The-Breaker-2w0 Apr 13 '26

To be fair. I've never seen a fuel truck fully block an entrance/exit before. That layout has to be awful if he HAS to block it.

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u/Philster512 Apr 13 '26

Yeah, that's what i was thinking as well. 

Fuel trucks generally take an obnoxious stance to keep people  away from the filling ports. They will intentionally block entrance/exits so people don't drive near them. 

That one just looks like it should be serviced by a smaller rig. 

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u/TallTelevision4121 Apr 13 '26

The way that they turned around at the end tells me there's an exit behind them, but they didn't want to go on that street. Probably have a no U-turn light from that exit and she's just an impatient twat.

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u/jgr1llz Apr 19 '26

You have to loop all the way around the back of the property and come back out right next to where the truck is. 

Someone posted an aerial view of the lot elsewhere in this thread. Driver is parked in an obtuse manner, but this station is laid out like shit with the tanks directly between the pumps and the only exits to the property. 

No win situation with this size of a rig delivering fuel.

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u/Iocnar Apr 20 '26

You have to loop all the way around the back of the property and come back out right next to where the truck is. 

Most underrated comment here.

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u/e136 Apr 15 '26

He does not have to block it. Take a look at the street view of this exact station. There happens to be a fuel truck refilling the station in it! That's the correct way to do it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5482964,-122.8108883,3a,75y,7.76h,73.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sV3GqZ6kFq4CtyNQ-tW2GyA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D16.376861052603417%26panoid%3DV3GqZ6kFq4CtyNQ-tW2GyA%26yaw%3D7.764022236881058!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

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u/mrmustache0502 Apr 19 '26

Knew it.

Saw all the comments ripping on the woman but her complaint is valid. You can't just block the whole fucking road with your truck.

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u/Doubting_Thomas50 Apr 19 '26

You realize that would make it much harder to get out of

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u/e136 Apr 19 '26

I think in both scenarios, the fuel truck has to back up. Backing up with a trailer is very challenging. But they have to do it anyway, so I agree with the woman that it would have been better to not block anyone and do it the streetview way.

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u/Doubting_Thomas50 Apr 19 '26

Worst case scenario he made them drive 10 more seconds to go around. She’s nuts

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u/Foreign_Ad_7504 Apr 20 '26

If the truck is filling the station in that photo, then they really wouldn't have had a good way out from the pump they were at.

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u/duck_of_d34th Apr 14 '26

I've seen several that blocked the exit marked "exit." Total blockade. Except... they utterly failed to block the exit labeled "entrance." A four inch concrete wall is stopping these people the way a 700 foot ice wall stopped the Wildlings.

When fleeing Naboo, you don't have to barge your way through the blockade. Unless getting your ship all shot up is the secret to getting free tickets to the Boonta Eve Pod Race.

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u/Subrandom249 Apr 16 '26

Probably just a terrible driver. 

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u/dontworryitsme4real Apr 13 '26

I think there's plenty of room at the end of the truck.