Reefer fuel in a P/U ????

I remember a contractor who had diesel pickups and cars,when they started dying off-road fuel, he sold every last one of those and replaced them with gasoline vehicles. You'd better believe he didn't want to get checked. My friend the crop farmer, who also hauls grain, sometimes buys a tank full of taxed fuel to use in his semis.

You keep track of miles operated in each state and gallons of fuel bought in each state. Indiana stands out because you can buy fuel with less tax on it if you have the apportioned fuel use stickers on your truck, tax exempt sale, many places there will ask for the DOT number before allowing fuel to be pumped, if you don't have that number, fuel will be sold as non tax exempt, and you will pay quite a bit more, this fuel is sometimes called car diesel. Indiana charges the same for road use tax, but since buying fuel there means you pay less taxes, you end up with a higher net cost on the fuel after taxes than you would across the border in OH or IL.

I used to buy farm fuel in town at times, we paid the same in IA some places and other places less, but you could get a tax refund for farm use on some of the federal tax all fuel was assessed. We could also get a refund from state for those taxes if they were paid on fuel used off road. Gasoline for farm use had all taxes applied and the refund for ag use there was substantial.

BTW, some truck stops sell off road fuel that is dyed, it varies by demand and area but I have seen it every state west of the Delaware River, it may well be everywhere in this country. I don't know about up north, those drivers would be the ones to ask about that as well as what fuel is available there and the use of dye.

Ag fuel is now ULSD in most cases as well, it doesn't pay to refine smaller quantities of LSD, and using ULSD causes less soot and smoke according to any authority you ask. The premium fuels went to ULSD first. Low sulfur fuel is getting harder to find and regular fuel that was available before low sulfur fuel I haven't seen recently.

I am now in a truck with the DPF, so I need to use the ULSD to be compliant with the law.