Diesel Question for truck campers

Redsky wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

JumboJet wrote:
New Nissan Titan - Cummins 5.0 diesel
New Toyota Tundra - Cummins 5.0 diesel
New RAM 1500 - "Italian" 3.0 diesel (8,000 first run dealer orders placed)

More cars getting diesel engines.

I might not have slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I surely doubt that the manufacturers and dealers would be excited to sell diesel powered vehicles if a fuel source was scarce (See CNG powered vehicles).

Proactive people plan fuel needs before they ever go on a trip. Starting in Salem, OR I traveled US20 from Albany, OR to Boise, ID in 2011 with my Lance 1050S. You can't get much more scarce towns and stops than that nearly 400 mile road. I didn't have any problems finding diesel.

Fuel source either way is a silly discussion for RV's. You can get diesel at most stations and gas trucks can cover reasonable distances.

Unless you cover insane miles and don't stop to take breaks, getting fuel and having enough range is an academic subject at best.

You cannot get diesel at most gas stations and only someone who does not get out much could be that ignorant. Take any city from San Francisco to Dallas and do a gasbuddy.com lookup for gas stations and see how long the list is for those where people have posted a price and then look at the diesel section and see how many places are shown.

My truck has a 300-360 mile range with its diesel engine depending upon the terrain and the wind conditions and the route taken. I have no way of knowing in advance whether I can get 300 miles or 360 miles so I plan on 300 miles when determining fuel stops.

Going into Glacier NP from the west I can get gas at any one of 10 stations in Whitefish but not one of them sells diesel. Going out the east side the first town is Browning where again I can get gas at any of the 3 gas stations but not a single one has diesel. If my truck used gas I would never give it a second thought but with a diesel truck I do and I go out of my way many times on trips to get diesel for the truck.

I do this when traveling and I have to do this around my house as well where it is 3 miles to 2 stations selling gas and 20 miles round trip to where I can buy diesel, not the cheapest diesel in the area either. I burn more than $10 in diesel to get to a place that sells diesel. I also get to pay $0.90 more for a gallon of diesel than I do for a gallon of regular gas.

This is a camper forum and I may be incorrect in thinking that the people who bought trucks and slide in campers did so to get off the interstates and out into the boondocks. From the emotional response I guess this was incorrect.

You are setting your self up for failure using gas m Buddy to find diesel,especially in rural areas.
Here is an example, gas buddy doesn't even list most places in my county(Humboldt)to buy diesel. The town I near(Garberville) isn't even listed as having any place to buy diesel, yet there are 6 stations that sell diesel within 10 miles.
The same goes for the rest of the County, at least 75% of the stations that sell diesel aren't listed.
As far as $.90 cents a gallon difference between gas and diesel, that is not even close to being accurate for N. Calif. Diesel is 10 cents more than regular and 5 cents cheaper than premium.
You need to get out more and use your eyes rather than technology to find your diesel.