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This will make you laugh and hopefully cheer you up.
My fuel truck drivers used to run out of fuel driving their fuel trucks. About once per quarter someone would. One time it happened on 5th avenue in front of the Anchorage Alaska FBI building. The ABC boys were not very happy. (FBI, ATF, APD,) with a 5000 gallon fuel truck sitting next to the front door. The driver did know how to prime the fuel system. He filled the saddle tank with 5 gallons of Power Service and bled the system. Got it back to the terminal. I drained the saddle tank, new fuel filters, fresh fuel. I coincidentally had exhaust after- treatment problems after that. Not sure if related to running 100% Powerservice. Anyways, he did get terminated for that stunt.
Get this, the saddle tank on the Freightlner vocational M2 chassis is on the driver side. So is the unleaded hose reel on my tankers. The inexperienced drivers would, all too often, fill the saddle tank with the unleaded reel because it's much easier to pull that hose. They would never admit it.
The DD15 and DD16 don't handle that very well. One guy did that inside the Airport Operations Area at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport! Had to call Webbs towing to get it off the ramp. Webbs would not move the truck without pulling the driveline to move it 300 yards because it had a Allison. Spent 4th of July 2017 changing fuel filters, priming the fuel system and installing the driveline in a gravel parking lot. That guy didn't get terminated, but eventually did for failing a random wiz quiz. Lol!