During our travels we have found that we prefer to get our fuel at the Flying J truck stops. Flying J realized that not only do tractor trailers use a lot of fuel, but RV’s. With that in mind, they have created islands at their truck stops that cater to RV’s only. These islands have diesel, gasoline, and propane along with air hoses and extra long window cleaners all in one convenient place. It just makes it so much easier for us when we fuel up. I have not seen any other truck stop chain do this.
I would suggest to Flying J one thing about their RV islands. It would be easier for the drivers if they moved the islands into the tractor trailer area instead of the car area. The car drivers zip in and out and for some reason seem blind to their impending doom as a 37 foot RV turning in front of them trying to exit the truck stop.
Because of our frequent visits, we thought it might be a good idea to become a Flying J R.V. Real Value Member. The brochure says we can save up to 30 cents per gallon and that always sounds nice to me since I’m frequently sobbing uncontrollably into Gypsy’s shirt while fueling RV-103.
After reading over their brochure we decided it wasn’t worth it. You automatically get a 1 cent discount for being a member which means if I filled our empty tank, I would save 75 cents. Big deal…NOT! The only way you can get any substantial savings on your fuel is to make large monthly purchases from their store. For example, to get that wonderful 30 cent per gallon savings, I have to buy $400 worth of merchandise from their store. That’s a lot of chips and dip! And, the discount is good only for the first 100 gallons of fuel for the entire month. I have a 75 gallon tank so I would use up nearly all of my monthly allotment in just one fill-up.
This club is more of a tool to get you to give up information for targeted marketing from Flying J and their “third party” friends. The membership is really not worth the trouble or worth giving up your personal information. I would recommend giving this one a pass, but I am still going to use their RV islands during our travels.
