Re: OT: Squeezable Propane?

Posted by john in la on January 08, 2005 at 08:46:47 from (67.35.234.60):

In Reply to: Re: OT: Squeezable Propane? posted by greenbeanman on January 08, 2005 at 06:57:52:

That is most likely true for your northern trucks. Here in the south it is not. Our delivery truck just got a temperature compensating meter a year or two ago. In the north it pays to install the meter because they would always be giving product away but down here it usually works the other way. We pay for more than we really got unless it is temperature corrected.

It would be very easy to tell if the meter was not set to zero if we knew what the delivery before him was.
If the meter is bad the thing that comes to mind is every deliver ticket since the last meter calibration can now come into question. While the meter may have broke on his turn at least every delivery after that is wrong.

While the driver was most likely not paying attention to the amount and just printed what the meter said he really should have caught this. All fuel is figured on a basis of 60 deg. It expands (hot) and contracts (cold) as the temperature moves but not by very much. On 350 gross gallons we are probably talking 50 gals at most and more like 25. If he had got a bill for 375 gallons he would have just thought the driver over filled it a little and never said anything.

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