Off road diesel - How do you find locations?

[RalphVa]

I don't burn a lot of diesel - but I have to admit, its alway a challenge for me to find any diesel - and I was wondering how can I find a source of off road diesel - might actually be more convenience for me and save me a few bucks. Google comes up with nothing.....do I just go to a heating oil place and ask for #2 heating oil?

I just typed in "off road diesel charlottesville" and got 14 locations. Thought there was only one, only one Exxon anyway.

 

[clemsonfor]

Even in cities they have off road. Its what the construction/clearing guys will use as well. Often times though they get it from a bulk distributor who delivers to a tank on site if it's a big job. There still going to deliver off road though .

 

[Williy]

I was miss informed about the red diesel in pipe!
This is how they check! Tax authorities can and do check for vehicles using off-road red diesel in on-road vehicles. They do this by using a black light to spot any residual presence of dye in the fuel as well as at key places in the engine compartment.
If you are caught in Oregon the fine can be as big as $10,000 and the State of Oregon does aggressively pursue this type of tax avoidance.

willy

 

[clemsonfor]

I was miss informed about the red diesel in pipe!
This is how they check! Tax authorities can and do check for vehicles using off-road red diesel in on-road vehicles. They do this by using a black light to spot any residual presence of dye in the fuel as well as at key places in the engine compartment.
If you are caught in Oregon the fine can be as big as $10,000 and the State of Oregon does aggressively pursue this type of tax avoidance.

willy

I figured you must have never been around anything that burned off road fuel. Haha

 

[bmaverick]

I was miss informed about the red diesel in pipe!
This is how they check! Tax authorities can and do check for vehicles using off-road red diesel in on-road vehicles. They do this by using a black light to spot any residual presence of dye in the fuel as well as at key places in the engine compartment.
If you are caught in Oregon the fine can be as big as $10,000 and the State of Oregon does aggressively pursue this type of tax avoidance.

willy

The red dye goes away with Seafoam or B-12 treatment. It can't stain too bad.

 

[clemsonfor]

When I put blue twc3 two stroke oil in my fuel at a ratio between 150-300/1 it turns it a darker color so that amount of oil over powers the red dye. If it's UV detected or whatever that won't leave. I know a lot of the older diesel engine guys run the twc3 oil in their diesel's for lubricity improvers, I am one of those people. I put a few ounces of oil in when I put fresh fuel in. Remember diesel fuel today is not what ya mar designed these tractors to run on 45 years ago. These are not your computer controlled particulate filter choked engines of today. Now that we have almost no sulpher in the fuel a lot of the lubricity is removed that was once there.

 

[Hay Dude]

I was miss informed about the red diesel in pipe!
This is how they check! Tax authorities can and do check for vehicles using off-road red diesel in on-road vehicles. They do this by using a black light to spot any residual presence of dye in the fuel as well as at key places in the engine compartment.
If you are caught in Oregon the fine can be as big as $10,000 and the State of Oregon does aggressively pursue this type of tax avoidance.

willy

Here they dip your tanks with a small ladel-like tool. If it’s red, you get impounded and fined.

 

[Hay Dude]

The red dye goes away with Seafoam or B-12 treatment. It can't stain too bad.

Youre saying red dyed fuel loses red color with Seafoam added to it?

 

[clemsonfor]

Here they dip your tanks with a small ladel-like tool. If it’s red, you get impounded and fined.

I have heard here it's a strip type thing of paper maybe?

 

[ponytug]

I have heard here it's a strip type thing of paper maybe?

Yes, the paper is a test strip that reacts with the dye, so it can pick up trace amounts of dye. Whether it can do so in the presence of, just hypothetically speaking, two cycle oil, I have no clue. Since I don't run ORD, I can't test it either.

All the best,

Peter