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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."
  • Playtime II wrote:
    Sure? Tractor fuel is for the drive unit of an eighteen wheeler. Tractor fuel incudes commercial road taxes. Refer fuel does not have the taxes. However I believe both are the same blend of diesel minus the dye.

    As a noncommercial, can we use refer fuel?


    No, reefer fuel is just dyed off-road diesel. Because it is used for the refrigeration unit it is not subject to road taxes.
  • Could tractor mean a semi-tractor as in "tractor- trailer" of the over-the-road type?
  • Sure? Tractor fuel is for the drive unit of an eighteen wheeler. Tractor fuel incudes commercial road taxes. Refer fuel does not have the taxes. However I believe both are the same blend of diesel minus the dye.

    As a noncommercial, can we use refer fuel?
  • I thought off road use diesel had/ or didn't have a special dye so the feds could sample the fuel and see if it was legal to run on the highway.
    bumpy

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