Deceptive Fuel Ads

[John McGinnis]

I-65, exit 95, Whiteland, Indiana sign on the hiway read 10 cents
cheaper than at the pumps.>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Don Bradner
> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
> Posting today by satellite from Falcon, Colorado (East of Colorado
Springs)
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> On 10/7/2007 at 4:52 AM John McGinnis wrote:
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> >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?
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