Thursday, December 6, 2018

TirePass

We headed to the local Love's Travel Center to get fuel and dump today. When we arrived, there were trucks in all the diesel lanes, and an additional truck waiting in many of the lanes. I found a lane where there was only the truck that was currently fueling and stopped behind it. The next lane over (the most inside lane) had just one truck in it and no one waiting. It had markers that indicated that it was a "TirePass" lane.
I didn't get a very good picture, but there was a Love's employee checking the air pressure and airing up the tires. He had 4(!) air nozzles so he could fill all 4 of the tires on the back at the same time!
No one else came up to get behind the truck in the TirePass lane, and it happened to leave before the truck in front of me, so I pulled over and went in the TirePass lane.

Well, it turns out, that lane is only for folks who are taking advantage of the TirePass service... The fellow who had been doing the service had gone into the store when I decided to pull in -- he told Dwayne after I had left to go into the store to pre-pay for our fuel that we weren't eligible to be in that lane, but that it was okay, he would let us go ahead and fill up our fuel there. When we finished up, he put a barrier down so another errant soul would be prevented from pulling into the lane to fuel unless they were getting the TirePass service.
TirePass: https://www.loves.com/en/truck-solutions/tirepass
I didn't ask whether we would be eligible to get the TirePass service on Miss Doozie or whether it is just for trucks. When we are traveling and need to air-up our tires, if they would check all the tires and air up any that are low for $5, I think it could be cost effective to do that instead of using the "pay for air" pumps.

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