After crossing Indiana we are settled down in Casey, IL and as we crossed the line into IL we gained our lost hour back and are now in our comfortable time table.
We fueled up just before we left Ohio as I try not to buy fuel in either IN or IL. With our 50 gal fuel tank it will not be a problem to make it to the Flying J at Truxton, MO. I haven't bought fuel in IL for many years because while working at MoDOT I knew that the IL fuel taxes did not go to the transportation department but instead go to the general fund to be controlled by politics. Just recently I quit buying fuel in IN because all the truck stops advertise their prices on billboards but the price shown is noted as exempt which means that their fuel taxes are not included. The trucking industry pays their taxes other than at the pump so the truck pumps do not have the tax included. RVs and autos must buy at the auto pumps where the tax has been added and is many, many cents higher than the advertised price.
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