I was sampled in PA a few months back... first time in 20 years. I agree with MrEd... sell it to a farmer and clean the tank out.
Running pink fuel. What's the penalty?
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Canned Spam, Nov 25, 2015.
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Purple fuel? What is it? Never heard of it, don't know what you're talking about. LALALALALA!!!!!
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Dilution will get rid of it, eventually, running nearly empty and refilling just enough to get somewhere to do that again repeatedly is the fastest way, because what you can't drain in the lines is still dyed.
I'm not sure if it is 1 part dyed fuel in 100 parts undyed is detectable or 300 or 500 or even more, but each time you do what
I said reduced it by several factors of 10.
In laws with a construction business got rid of all of their diesel pickups and cars when on road couldn't be red anymore.
FS and Amoco premium diesel used to be dyed red, and some brands of premium.gas used to be dyed red as well.
Since off road has been dyed, those trademark treatments have gone the way of the dinosaur.
I worked for a business that had large diesel powered pumps mounted on trucks, and they had to purge those tanks as well, this would be early 2006 when they were doing that. -
CO checked mine last winter but that has been the only time in over 10yrs.
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I've had my fuel checked on I-90 at the scale in Pennsylvania, just as you enter from New York -
MN has been known to have spot checks in the fall. I've talked to a couple of guys that know people that have been caught and the fines were steep. One guy was running it in all his grain trucks and the DOT fined him for all the fuel he had in possession(including bulk tanks at the farm)and he had to pay tax on all fuel purchased(including stuff used in his tractors)for a certain amount of years. I think the fines was in the $10-15k range.
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Been checked many, many times in MT, some in ID, UT, NV, WA, OR, ND, SK, MN, BC.
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Think we are gonna just try and run it out and hopefully it gets diluted to the point where it's barely noticeable. Any other solution would involve informing those that probably wouldn't look too highly upon it
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When I fill up the Reefer at yard it's dyed there.
Seems to take a long time to get back to normal color.
Doesn't really burn that much fuel though really.
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