The chances getting stopped here are slim in CO, now if you have any trailer DOT regularly pulls trucks over for inspection... our fine is 1,000 a gallon up to 30 gallons. Now they don't care if you have a 30 gallon tank with 1 gallon of fuel...its still 30k fine, a 12 gallon tank with 2 gallons of fuel is a 12k fine...its capacity, not what volume remains in it. Here its also considered tax evasion...so that creates an entire **** storm of legal stuff too.... many other states as well....

Worth the risk??? not by any means... fill up a couple storage tanks over the winter if you can...they pay themselves off quickly if you drive a lot. I fill 1000 gallons worth when diesel gets down to 3.50 during the winter... that's a min of $700-900 saved a year and its at my house... kinda nice... hell we are the cheap people who go buy 250$ worth of shell gift cards at King Soopers, and then get 1.00 off a gallon and use that for a max of a 50 gallon fill up... adds up... 1000-1500 saved on fuel a year is well worth the effort to me... but red diesel is not worth the risk by any means... I miss the days that it was legal to run it in a farm truck..... On or off road..

Oh yeah... **** the government!

 

What's the blue dyed diesel for then? I've come across that before too.

 

Have not seen blue before, I know some of the red available on the state has uv dye in it simply for tail pipe checks....

 

same here. have not seen blue yet, but it may be for UV tailpipe sniffer

 

blue is military fuel or govt fuel irrc

 

Thanks Rodneywar. Makes sense, I live near a government nuclear weapons site.