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I was at a truck stop in Wyoming the other day. "Our internet is down." Breakfast was cash only. Scaling your truck was cash only. I see the word "satellite" on
by a3n 8y ago
I was at a truck stop in Wyoming the other day. "Our internet is down." Breakfast was cash only. Scaling your truck was cash only. I see the word "satellite" on a lot of pumps, but my ignorant assumption is that buying fuel is still dependent on a working internet. Or cash.
I didn't fuel there, so I don't know if fueling was affected. But I have been to other truck stops where "our system is down" and I couldn't fuel (I don't carry that much cash, but some do). I had to call my company to get fueling authorized elsewhere.
There are other types of walking-around non-cash payment systems besides credit/debit cards. If you want to go nosing around:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucking+fuel+card&t=lm&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trucking+fuel+card&t=lm&ia=web
Of those, my employer uses Comdata for fueling and other expenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comdata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comdata
Paying for "lumpers" (a third party loading/unloading service) is done (in our company) with a Comcheck, an actual paper check, that requires using the truck's communication terminal and making a phone call to get authorization. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comcheck+comdata&t=lm&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comcheck+comdata&t=lm&ia=web