Deceptive Fuel Ads

[Don Bradner]

Where was this? The most common state with a tax exemption for truckers is
Oregon, but the difference there is 24 cents, not 10 cents.

In Oregon, 99% of truck stops, including Flying J, list the cheap price with
"PUC" somewhere usually fairly small, and the pumps themselves in the truck bays
read the lower price, but when you pay you have to give them 24 cents per gallon
more unless you have an Oregon PUC certificate.

In Oregon, at the RV pumps the pumps read the higher price. At "auto-fuel"
stations, where they don't expect fueling by exempt truckers, 99% of the signs
read the higher price, as do the pumps.

In Arizona, the price on the signs and pumps reads 7 cents higher than RVers
normally pay - although it is supposed to apply to anything over 26,000 pounds,
so far my experience is that Flying J always gives me the lower price when I
present my FJ RV card.

At all, or almost all, Flying Js, the sign shows "Cash Price" while the pumps
show the higher "Credit Price." Use an FJ card and you get cash price
regardless, but otherwise you will usually pay the credit price.

In other words, it is extremely normal for there to be variance between signs
and price paid; the only thing unusual about what you were told is that they
said it was 10 cents for tax exempt truckers. Sounds like mis-communication, but
without knowing the state where you paid it and doing some research I can't be
sure.

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Posting today by satellite from Falcon, Colorado (East of Colorado Springs)

On 10/7/2007 at 4:52 AM John McGinnis wrote:

>Driving 600 miles this weekend we noticed fuel ads on the highway for
>Flying J at 2.95 per gallon, but when we pull up to the pumps they
>read 3.05. We asked the clerk and was told that sign was for the tax
>exempt truckers. Is deceptive advertising a common practice for
>Flying J. We didn't notice it the last time we filled up at Flying J,
>Piolet read the actual price and so did Loves. So what's up with
>Flying J?
>John 88FC35 Bird Brains
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