Red Dyed Fuel

Thank you...I was waiting for someone to step in and straighten that out.

Cowpie is right....the IRS has paddle locked and chained TS doors for evasion. The have seized rolling stock, buildings and anything else tied to the evaders activities. They are dead serious about fuel tax. There is about .35cpg on every gallon collected and split with the states so it's not hard to see why he's testy .


There is a very good system in place for tracking too. I believe the tax is now collected at the rack ( so to speak ) .

JMO

 

I belive it is collected at the rack. Everything we load is always prepaid and as soon as the bill is printed the info for that load is in their database.

 

There is absolutely no chemical difference between clear diesel (road use) and dyed diesel (off-road use). When the fuel is picked up from the depot, an injector shoots the dye through the loading arm at present amounts and into our tank compartments. It's the same physical product before the dye injection.

Dyed is okay for use in reefers and in fact we do wheel-to-wheel deliveries to trucking companies using dyed fuel for their trailers.

It doesn't happen too often, but more than a handful of times I'll get foreman for construction companies asking me to fill up their pickup trucks with dyed after fuelling their equipment on site. Zero chance I'll do that. I'll purge the hose and charge them accordingly for the clear diesel instead.

 

My hats off to yall who do fleet fueling. My buddy who works for GATE here in jax works much harder than me and has to do a lot more paperwork. He's hoping to get transferred to the tractor trailer side in the next few months.