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Rice
Explorer III
Jun 14, 2017

Tip: "Tractor" fuel = RV diesel

I was refueling at a place that uses a touch-screen for paying at the truck pump. After I swiped my credit card, the following questions appeared:

Tractor fuel: yes no

I pressed "no" because I'm not agricultural or whatever.

Then it said:

Reefer fuel: yes no

I pressed "no" and it came up and said "no fuel" and cancelled the transaction.

I went inside and found out that "tractor fuel" is just regular diesel. So they tried to run my card in there and problems ensued because of their terminal, and I gave up. And at the next place, my card was declined because my credit card company had detected fraud.

The moral of this story: if you're filling your motorhome and see "tractor fuel" on a screen, press "yes."
  • wnjj's avatar
    wnjj
    Explorer II
    2oldman wrote:
    Whiskey River wrote:
    Just wondering, why are they called "Truck Stops" when actually they are "Tractor Stops".....
    LOL. I've never researched why they're called "semis". Semi - what?


    It's an abbreviation for a tractor pulling a semi-trailer:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer
  • I have a lot of information here and see a way to make a little camping money. The guilty ones send $10 and I will forget everything. There's a good chance I will forget everything by tomorrow anyway.
  • After HUGO there was a serious shortage of fuel . In Fl , So. GA and Alabama we were told to use off road fuel as that was all that was available .I ran 36,000 miles on dyed fuel .That is how we moved all those FEMA trailers .
  • Bumpyroad wrote:
    how do I go about collecting a tax rebate for the 100 gallons of gasoline that I use in my lawnmower, outboard,etc.
    bumpy


    There was a time ; many years ago ; when we had 2 gasoline fuel tanks on the farm. One for off road fuel, and One for on road fuel. They would check your taxes at the end of the year to make sure that you were not using a excessive amount of off road fuel for the amount of tractors (farm tractors) that you had vs the amount of cars / trucks.

    It was all rather complicated.

    No farm tractors have run on gasoline in decades.

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