RED diesel question?

[shadled]

I buy my "Off Road" Diesel at a local truck stop. They have a pump for "Off Road" Diesel. My savings was about $.45 a gallon. I also spoke with my local Home Heating oil supplier and they advised me if I bring my 55 gal drum to them, they would fill it.. They were a few cents higher then the off road diesel.

 

[Cabinholler]

Scrounger

I buy my off road red diesel at a Marathon station near me. This station will sell me as little as a gallon at a time, if I want that little. Most of the time, I just buy 5 or 10 gallons of diesel at a time, because I don't need 275 gallons of diesel fuel in a tank on my farm. If I were a big time farmer like some on this board, I would have a large fuel tank on my farm. At the present time, I don't need but a few gallons of diesel for my tractor. The Marathon station is right on the road to my farm, and it is no problem for me to stop in and get a few gallons of red diesel for my tractor, and also a few gallons of gas for my truck.

Also, here in Kentucky you don't want to get caught running red diesel in your diesel truck. If anyone gets caught using red off road diesel in a truck on the highway, it is a $5,000.00 fine. The reason is Kentucky wants the road tax on ever gallon of diesel used for the highway. I guess most other states are like this state wanting their tax money on ever gallon of road diesel sold.

I am not sure what the road tax is here on a gallon of road diesel, but I think it is over 30 cents a gallon. The price of diesel fuel and gas around here is up and down like the weather. Most of the time it is going up, and not down.

One of these days someone might come up with something else instead of fuel for tractors, but I guess I am to old to ever see that happen. I have always thought in my lifetime that something cheaper than diesel fuel and gas would come out to be used in tractors and trucks. You younger guys might see that in your lifetime.

Cabinholler

 

[GeorgeW]

I can buy red diesel from my local distributer in any amount I want. Usually buy 5 gallons at a time. It's on the way home so no big deal. The last I bought was about 60 cents a gallon cheaper than road diesel.

 

[KiotiJohn]

shadled. You might ask the home heating company where the price break is as I did. I found out that if I bought 100 gals or more I got about $.25/gal less, so that's why I took TWO 55 gal. drums to fill.
Most distributors give bulk discounts.
John

 

[creeper]

Check with your local heating oil or gas delivery company. In some rural areas you will see off-road advertised. My supplier has a 100 gal. min. for delivery.

 

[MadReferee]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Scrounger,
The easiest thing to do is buy home heating oil. It's the same as off-road diesel fuel.)</font>

Not quite, it all depends on where you are, and what your local dealer is selling as off-road.

Within 5 miles of my house I can get 3 distinctly different types of fuel, all sold as dyed off-road. I use high cetane dyed fuel but I can also get regular on-road that has been dyed and dyed home heating oil. Note that the dealers do not add dye, it's done at the distribution point or earlier in the production chain.

So, the bottom line answer on off-road fuel is "ASK BEFORE YOU BUY". What you are getting will vary from locale to locale, dealer to dealer, and station to station.

 

[SkyPup]

The United States is divided up into 5 different Petroleum Administration Defense Districts (PADD) and has been since it was made a National Defense stragety during World War II by the US Department of Defense.

The quality of the diesel fuel available in each district is different since both the orgin of the crude oil and its refining and subsequent distribution is different in each district. The lowest quality diesel fuels are found in the Northeast New England states and the Rocky Mountain states.

 

[SailorBob]

Because of the price difference I bought some off road diesel from a station near my house and noticed debris floating in my filter bowl afte I started using it. I suspect that they may not turn over enough of the off road and the fuel probably has algae. I decide that to save $2 on a 5 gallon can of fuel is not worth the risk. I just buy the road diesel and add Power Service and have not had any problems since. Besides I can run my little Yanmar all day long an not use 5 gallons of diesel.

 

[slowrev]

The little country grocery about 1/2 mile from my place sells it, just pump it like any other fuel.
The farmers around here drive their tractors their for lunch and fill themselves and their tractors. They have a grill there for food prep too, sell nails, bolts, hydraulic fluid, milk, bread, etc....

 

[kubotabilly]

"Not quite, it all depends on where you are, and what your local dealer is selling as off-road".

Mad,
At least in my area it's the same. All I can say is that I've been using the same home heating oil (with no additional additives) in my Kubota diesels for the last 20 years and I have no problems whatsoever /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
I did some price checking today and came up with these local prices. At the pump, off-road=$2.04. From my home heating oil distributor, off-road=$1.99 and home heating oil=$1.99 with no tax on either from my distributor.

Bill