How to find truck stops with #1 diesel?

I don't know the difference, but Jet A smells similar to #1 or stove oil to me. I would assume with the temps encountered at 35,000 feet that gelling wouldn't be an issue!

 

You can add some stuff called Prist to Jet A if you have water problems but we've never used it on the trucks.
I'm sure some chemical engineer will have a total mental melt-down about my description but the way I understand it Jet-A is just a very very clean form of kerosene. It's refined, stored, hauled, and distributed through all kinds of micron filters and water detectors and lab sampling. There has never, to my knowledge been a case where a civilian aircraft has crashed because of a Jet A fuel quality problem.
And besides, I want to run that old water truck a few more years so I'll stick with what works.

 

So when you all talk about additives, what specific products do you use? As I mentioned earlier, I always fuel with the Tundramaxx at Kwik Star (I only run in Iowa), and if the temps are single digits or below I will add some Howe’s diesel treat.

 

I’ve seen them using power service arctic express..they dump it in the fuel drop.

 

1977 we hauled the fuel to the then Union 76 on Rt 78 in New Jersey with fuel from Atlantic [ARCO] in Fullerton, PA. their 'super diesel' was 6000 gal #2 and 1000 gal Kero and the driver had to get the key at the fuel desk for the little shed of additives [one for Super D and one for the High test gas] to drop 5 gal of the additive before dropping the blended fuel to make it meet their spec.

 

I use either of these …. And more than single digits below zero I double the dosage

 

I don’t think I would treat that tundramax until it got below -30. I had it at -15 and looked clear as can be.

 

I haul jet fuel. It has a very low freeze point. The difference between jet and kerosene is it has naphtha and other ignition additives to give it a higher flashpoint than Kerosene.

 

Never heard of anyone having a problem with Howes. Just treat it like it says and maybe a couple of ounces extra.

 

Back almost 40 years ago, if you were driving south to north in the worst of winter, there were always a few truckstops which had separate #1 pumps, but few of them were stops that my carrier used. So, I just made sure to fill up more often with whatever "winter mix" the current stop had, hoping that it would be good enough for wherever I'd be the next day, then I'd fill up there. Oh, and I also used as much diesel winter treatment additives as my company would allow...