Auto Diesel?

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  1. 101driver

    101driver Light Load Member

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    At the fuel island at my local convenience store there's a pump for "auto diesel."

    Is there any difference between this and the diesel at the truck stop? It's the "ultra-low sulfur diesel." Is that what the big trucks use, too?

    I never noticed it said "AUTO" diesel before, so it made me wonder.
     
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    Pretty much everybody should be selling ULSD by now.
    Maybe it means they're not High Speed Pumps or whatever?
     
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    Possibly the canopy is too low for a truck not to mention there is no slave pump for the other tank... likely not meant as diesel for an auto as much as access for an auto so big trucks don't pull in there and jam things up.
     
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    must mean that it pumps itself?
     
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    After all most laughing to death, I have no comment.
     
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    probably it was one of those indian reservation places that do not pay fuel taxes, and you wont get credit for your ifta taxes.
     
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    Betting it was Number 2 diesel.
     
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    It says "auto diesel" so gasoline powered cars won't pump diesel into their tanks; the nozzle's are the same size. Once in an emergency I filled my truck with "auto diesel", and the only problem was it took forever to fill it.
     
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    The head of the nozzle fits in cars/PU's...that's the only difference. The fuel isn't different.

    You can't fuel a VW TDI at a pilot in the truck lanes, the nozzle won't fit. That's why they also say "truck fuel"
     
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  10. Allow Me.

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    In Az. and another state, trucks cannot legally fuel at an "auto diesel" pump, because, no taxes are collected.
     
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