Red diesel on vehicles on the roads?
I have not seen red diesel personally, because the people I know who run farms buy the usual road-taxed fuel and keep a tally of how much they buy for off-road use here in Texas (form 06-106) for a re...
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GeorgeNJ wrote:
I had driven heavy trucks for years throughout north Jersey, TT's, roll offs, concrete mixers, etc. Only once was I ever stopped & checked, it happened at the exit of a stone quarry. I had never seen it before or since. Two guys in cop like uniforms with IRS insignias & a marked SUV waved me to stop, opened my tank and stuck a hollow clear glass tube to pull up fuel to look for color. They thanked me and I was on my way. I was driving for a huge corporation who would be the last ones to try such shenanigans, too. I would tend to think the little guys and small diesel vehicle owners would be the most likely ones to try to temp fate with running dyed fuel.
I know it's easy to do it if you wanted to, there are off road fuel pumps around here. Years ago I saw someone filling up his Mercedes diesel powered car at it, I don't know if he knew it or not, but now you can't self help due to newer pumps that need the attendants card to start them.
Wonder what they do if they CAN'T dip the tanks? My last F-350 (converted from gas power) still had the anti-siphon screens in place. My work truck has a metal screen about 3" inside the filler cap---unless the tank is full to the top, dipping it would be impossible.
Having said that: in close to 20 years of driving diesels, I have NEVER been checked.
