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Grit_dog
Navigator III
Jun 23, 2015

4th Gen Ram Fleet Review after a year in the Arctic

Thought this might interest all of you. Just getting ready to return a fleet of '14 Rams used up on the North Slope oil fields for the last year. Well they sat stranded during the summer, but have bee...
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ib516
Explorer II
Jun 23, 2015
rjstractor wrote:
Grit, if you guys don't work the trucks hard then why diesel? Do the gas engines have just as many or more problems in those conditions?

Because everything in the oilfield runs on diesel, and it's pretty much free (company pays for it). That's also why most oilfield employees run diesel trucks. The fuel is free if no one cares that they fill up their personal vehicles.

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