Offroad diesel?

[Krawler00]

Fill me in. I have a store in town that sells it. Better, worse? Curious.

[Do Work 93 YJ]

From what I understand is its pretty much the same other than they put the die in it to beable to tell the difference in it and the regular diesel which has a road tax added to the price. I have heard that the die can eventually cause problems with your injectors.

[Doug]

You get caught with that dye in your tank..... big problem.

[Krawler00]

  explain.

[Do Work 93 YJ]

Offroad is so much cheaper because it doesn't carry a road tax beacuse its suppose to be run in offroad vehicles only. So if you get caught by Dot running it in a vehicle on the road it can carry some hefty fines.

[Logan]

And by hefty, he means more than you paid for the burb...

[Richard]

How do they check? Its not like they pull over passenger diesels and check their tanks. I have run it a few times. Seem like it smoked more.

[Logan]

one of my friends got checked in a 2500HD, but he also had a fuel tank in the bed for fueling the Bobcat.

[Krawler00]

I am with Richard. Not sure I would get checked around here. I was thinking it might have a higher octane or something beneficail. Not worth it then.

[urdaddyjeep]

for ours we just use the normal stuff.. the tank is only 14gallons so it doesnt cost us an arm and leg to fill...

[BigJerm]

DoWork is correct. Off road deisel is common where I am from in farm country. It is made to run in farm tractors/equipment so it does not carry the road tax that normal commercial diesel does. It is suppose to have some kind of dye that causes an off color (and usually more) smoke. If they catch you fines are really big... I heard of a few back home who got caught, not by smoke, but by gas station camera's with video of them filling up their truck and driving off.

[calvin4186]

One of our partnering demolition company owners was talking about this a few weeks ago. He runs a F350 longbed as well and also has a filler tank in the back for emergency fill-ups on his equipment. At any rate, he has been pulled over for a check, and they've put a "dipstick" of sorts down into the tank and checked for the color. He always runs highway diesel, so he was good, but the fines are supposed to be pretty crazy.

[Rowingfish87]

One of our partnering demolition company owners was talking about this a few weeks ago. He runs a F350 longbed as well and also has a filler tank in the back for emergency fill-ups on his equipment. At any rate, he has been pulled over for a check, and they've put a "dipstick" of sorts down into the tank and checked for the color. He always runs highway diesel, so he was good, but the fines are supposed to be pretty crazy.

not worth messin with...just my $0.02.

[lt99ls1]

Not for sure but I hear the fine is $10K for running ORD. Stay far away from it.

[Krawler00]