Why don't we run off road diesel in our reefers?

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  1. scoobertdoo

    scoobertdoo Road Train Member

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    Why are we paying road tax on reefer diesel?
     
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  3. 062

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    Because very few places have it available.
     
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  4. scoobertdoo

    scoobertdoo Road Train Member

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    Any reason we can't? So if I put a 500 gallon tank in the yard I can run it?
     
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    Mike250rs Heavy Load Member

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    Yes, just don't brain fart it and full up your truck.
     
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    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Where I work, we have customers that have a contract with local fuel distributors that top off the reefers running in their drop yards...they fill them with red dyed fuel.
     
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    It’s legal to use off-road diesel in a reefer. You need to check local ordinances as far as the tank goes.
     
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  8. scoobertdoo

    scoobertdoo Road Train Member

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    Maybe I'll spec a 100 gallon reefer tank on the new trailer. Fill it with red when I can.
     
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  9. TCF

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    I just started reefer so this will be my first tax year for it but all the taxes paid on the fuel should be returned at tax time.. Irs form 4136.
    Unless this isn't what you were looking for?
     
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  10. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    If you ever get thru montana. They sell red fuel at the town pumps
     
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  11. REO6205

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    There are a couple of card locks in our area that sell red diesel. There's also a lot of goody two-shoes hippy dippy tree hugger types who'd turn you in if they saw you filling a tank on your logging truck.
    When it's the hippy's turn to fuel they fill up a five hundred or a thousand gallon tank trailer and head back up to their illegal pot grow.
    The legal growers have their fuel delivered. :rolleyes:
     
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