Red Dyed Fuel

ah ok, if i can do a small hijack and ask a stupid question. do they make anything BUT ULSD??

 

Here's a bit of info that I know is off topic but I figured I'd share it for informational purposes since I found it interesting.


I always thought the placard for diesel was 1993. Until we started delivering to a trucking company in jacksonville that has 1202 placards on their above ground tanks.

At first I thought they had wrong placards up and was going to mention it to someone, then decided to do some re s each before opening my mouth.

Found out that the UN number for heating oil and fuel oil is 1993, but diesel specifically is UN1202, Which they had 1202 placards.

I learn new things about fuel every day.

 

As far as I know ULSD is the only thing available at the racks we load out of. There's a possibility there may be a place where you can load other types of diesel but, to my knowledge, we don't haul any of it.

 

In the northeast you can get #2 fuel oil ( home heating oil) it's not uls . It's diesel and it's red....

to the op... You might find somthing on red diesel laws on the Irs website ....

 

That's usually Kerosene, we haul it too and its red. That's usually whats used as heating Oil. #2 Kero

 

Your statement "it's called off-road for a reason" would still give me doubts! Reefer trailers don't run off road, they run on the road, but like I said! I don't pull a reefer, so? This will not effect me

 

Kero is also called #1 diesel (sometimes)
Up here the color code is

Brown... Kero

yellow... Diesel

green.... 2 oil


up here many racks have ulsd and Kero arms so you can blend in more Kero for cold weather use..of course Kero costs more than diesel. And you have to keep the red/clear thing strait.... More than one flunky has screwed that one up.....

Separate 2 oil arms for home heating oil...and there's no clear option....

 

They're not self-propelled therefore they're exempt from road taxes.

 

Down here the kero color code is also brown, what I'm saying is kero is always dyed red down here.

I thought the same thing until my friend who does fleet fueling for GATE petroleum was telling me how when he goes to publix stores and refuels their reefer units he puts in off road diesel. Reefer units can run off road since like the other poster said, it's not self propelled.

 

Really, the only major difference is the red laced stuff just didn't get road fuel tax applied. Other than that, it is generally the same diesel as the non dye variety. The red dye is only a tax marker. And that explains why the gooberment has such a cow when red dye fuel is discovered in an on road vehicle. They got cheated out of their tax revenues, so they are going to make you pay for it and see the error of your ways.