Red Dyed Fuel

Mine is blue because I mix 2 cycle oil in it.

 

its simple, reefer fuel powers a refrigeration engine, its not used to propel down the road. so its perfectly legal to use off-road fuel. its called off-road for a reason.

 

As long as the red dyed fuel is not in the tractor you are okay. Red dyed fuel is allowed for use in auxiliary power units such as a reefer trailer.

 

Lately the diesel and gas we've been loading out of marathon loading rack has been clear. They may be out of the green dye.

When we load at a different rack it's green, then another it's yellow. It may not be on highway use but more of a product marking of where it came from.

Could be someone delivering on highway after a load of dyed. I've delivered dyed to a place then went and loaded on highway and took it to a truck stop. It was a very light blue color.

Even after bucket draining the trailer before loading, the dye is still in the trailer. We usually have to haul gas after a dyed load before loading clear diesel, but it doesn't always happen like that.

 

I've been wondering if I could run dyed in my boom truck because it is mostly run off road. I don't even register it because it sits on a job site for months on end, when it gets moved I buy a trip permit.

I had the idea to find a smaller diesel just to run the crane hydraulics and feed it the red stuff. That would rest the 444 for when I need to take it down the road. Probably burn less fuel altogether.

 

You solved another mystery for me too. I heard the yellow diesel was bio fuel, green was regular fuel.

 

That's correct. We deliver to wilco Hess and take them 20% bio. It's a dark yellow color.

 

this is kinda interesting, always wondered why fuel was differnt colors. seen yellows, greens.blues,clear. never used offroad tho.
drtydiesel is there a diff between number 1 and 2 diesel? seen that primarly back east and far north

 

Hi Rocket, I wouldn't take the chance. Cops aren't stupid. They know that machine has to get to a jobsite, and you'll take a road to do it. They have no sense of humor when it comes to those things. If you want to run a pony motor with red fuel, that's different, but the second a wheel hits the road, believe me, they'll know.

 

From my understanding, #2 is used for all our highway vehicles since it has a cetane rating of 40-55 which is economical for our diesel engines.

Diesel #1 is more volatile with a higher cetane rating. It's not as controlled and efficient than #2. You would lose horsepower with #1 because I don't believe it is manufactured to be used in our engines since it's more unstable.


That's what I've read about it. Also it may contain more sulfur.


We only haul #2, #2 (B), and dyed as far as diesel goes.