Reefer fuel in a P/U ????

Am I reading this correctly? You are saying non-commercial diesel cars and pickups can legally run off road fuel in their vehicles when used on public roads?

If I did read that correctly that is absolutely untrue. No vehicle on public roads can run off road fuel anywhere in the USA.

 

You are correct, my dad has had his tank dipped in his F250 Power Stroke diesel at least 5 times since he got it in 2003. They wouldn't dip his tank and any other diesel pickups on the road if it wasn't necessary. It would be a colossal waste of time in the least.

 

Well dutchman--god bless ya--but you do live in California--and we all know the rules are different there--LOL--so it doesn't surprise me CHP or whoever checking P/Us--but it doesn't happen much in other parts of the country--and not to give a way a lot of friends secrets--but out east here in farm country--that is what everyone puts in their P/Us--except of course for a lot of us who have auxillary fuel burner furnaces in the basement--then we just let the fuel oil home delivery guys fill the P/U! Not that's truly old fashined FULL-SERVICE
just my $.02

 

Not doubting that at all, just confirming for those asking that it does in fact happen! All diesel pickups newer than year 2000 now require a "smoke test" as well, which is all subjective to the tester. It basically involves a few meters measuring lord-knows-what, and a white board or sheet behind the tail pipe, with a certain amount of revs, counting the seconds that the soot lingers before dissapating, & measuring how much got left on the board/sheet.

Continue with flaming.

 

So what about these people that run used vegetable oil in their tanks and don't pay any taxes? Is that illegal too?

 

im not sure of the laws in texas but here in washington if the truck is licensed for farm use then it is perfectly legal to do

 

yeah i get a kick out of those also--have seen them in jersey doin that and checkin fuel--but it seems if you pull a container or garbage wagon out there then you are exempt!!LMAO

 

No kidding!!

 

A company I worked for kept a 2000 gallon diesel tank on the job. The equipment would drive right up to it and get their fuel every day. It was standard non-dyed fuel. However if you were say a bobcat, forklift, backhoe or whatever you'd just write down the amount of gallons you pumped and check mark whether the fuel's purpose was offroad, or onroad. The foreman would drive their trucks and fuel as well, onroad for the truck's tanks, and offroad for the auxiliary tanks used to go up and fuel the big cranes or other large equipment that was low and couldn't be timely brought down to the tank, like air compressors and generators etc that might have needed to stay where they were. Foreman were 'unofficially' encouraged to document some of the fuel they put into their trucks as offroad so the company could benefit from the tax break.