[babaloo999]

I'm just wondering about them being able to pull up to a gas pump in a semi.
Usually, actually always, the fuel island for trucks has much more room to enable a tractor/trailer
to access it. No gasoline available at those pumps.
So I'm guessing they just pulled up to the regular gas pumps, the same ones the cars use.
Those will usually have a diesel pump on the side.
But the big truck pumps do not have gasoline available there, and the four wheelers better stay away,
unless there's no diesel available at the car pumps.
Oh, and reporters know as much about the big rigs as they do about industrial techniques and firearms.

[Unknowing]

OK, babaloo, your guess makes a lot of sense to me. As if the drivers were very much in need of fuel, it seems, and they stopped at a regular gas station that perhaps displayed a sign advertising "diesel" for automobiles. We'd have to see the Sinclair station to confirm this, though it seems to make sense. Add to this your appropriate attribution of ignorance to the author of the article regarding anything technical, and it allows us to consider the likelihood of the rig remaining integrated to be the more robust interpretation.

[Unknowing]

The Byers Sinclair station, (303) 822-9255, confirms that they do indeed sell diesel "for cars."

[steve86]

I have only a 12,000 Gross E-350 diesel and know next to nothing about the big rigs. Is it true that the semi tractors use some sort of high-pressure fueling system at truck stops that is incompatible with smaller vehicles? I guess they could use a regular green handle nozzle if the faster system were unavailable. Also, would an untrained person have any chance of driving a big rig (at least until they had to back up)? I imagine there are different classes of tractors and different types of transmissions. Thanks, I have wondered about these things for a while.