Rollie,
We must be really backward over here in New Zealand, because I have NEVER
had any vehicle operated by me filled by anyone but myself, apart from the
odd apprentice.
In saying that, I have a fuel card that means I fill up with diesel at what
could be called a truck stop, the fuel is a lot cheaper though.
I remember a few years ago, I got a right old telling off by a female staff member
at the local service station, when I refilled my own 9kg LPG cylinder for a mates
BBQ.
She was like I would imagine the industry would have as a SWAT team.
Staff were standing around witnessing this, I had weighed the cylinder and wrote
the figure on my hand and was filling the thing when she scared the hell out of me.
"You can't do that!!!"
"Where are your cold gloves and your other PPE!!!"
By then the cylinder was full and I turned off the feed valve, disconnected it
and took the final reading.
Walked into the service station counter and paid for it.
Put it into the back of my ute and drove off.
I've lost count of the number of times, fire brigades over here have had to go to
a persons house, because their refilled cylinder is now venting, because the
staff at the service station over-filled it.
I have had an LPG handlers licence for 25 years, otherwise, you wouldn't get
me near that stuff.
