Petrol station fill up

For me, when towing and needing to refill, motorways every time. When I was prepared to travel greater distances it was always to get to an area at the start of a tour or to return. I always consider fuel to be a relatively small part of costs of a holiday and so to pay premium rates for a few three quarter tank top ups a year was not worth the effort of avoiding

Most supermarket filling stations have at least one island of pumps that are easily accessible. Work out roughly when you will need to refill and then use GoogleEarth to zoom in and scope out a suitable location for refilling.

lol, if you wish MM, sorry ED, and if that is what you wished to be called so be it and I'll happily use it, but do you realise what it usually stands for

I thought it stood for effective dose, as in the administration of drugs.😇

When we caravanned we rarely stopped enroute to refill in the UK but had done so in Europe, where generally, motorway service areas have slightly more space. Now we have a motorhome we have tend to top up at supermarkets off route. These stops are usually planned ahead with the help of Google Earth so the same method could be used with a caravan. Just a question accessing whether they are large enough for your outfit from the overhead shot?

David

in this/my case it's EmilysDad! ..... 

to those that plan a route to the Nth degree with Google satellite images of access points & narrow lanes etc, what happens if you take a wrong road or get diverted for some reason? On occasion I've ****up & had to turn round involving fairly tight spaces ..... c'est la vie and no planning ahead can ever predict it and things have to be done on the hoof.  I ended up on a small housing estate in Bristol last year and had to turn round 45' of car & caravan & no way was I going to chicken out & unhitch!

On a few occasions I've used pumps while hitched up and you just have to choose the pump that you think you can drive away from the easiest. Forecourts are all different and each need different considerations.

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AD is absolutely right.  The fuel gauge on my Tiguan drops very quickly when it gets to 1/3rd full.  Some folk do an awful lot of detailed planning for their trips; with us its maximum flexibility and prepared to change.  We never pre book sites but we do go out of season.

Often fill up with van on the back and in 30 years of towing only had 1 problem in Carrefour in Calais, very tight but with patience it was doable.

Only real thing to watch out for is barriers which are obviously a no go. I always try and stop a few yards away and recce the filling station if it's not obviously large and spacious.