Rolling coal has become a popular trend in the diesel truck community, but seems to enrage some others who oppose the practice.

For our newest Question of the Week, we want to know where you stand on the topic, so make your pick in the poll above and elaborate on your views below!

 

Rolling coal serves to add pollution, **** people off and show the driver's ignorance.
Just one old man's opinion. Yours may vary.

 

The more smoke the more power I have. I have well over 700HP. I have Edge stacked with Smarty stacked with Banks stacked with EFI. Stacked with stacks and stacked with cold air intake stacked. And did you see my tow mirrors flipped up?


I used to wonder who all the low-IQ idiots in town were. Turns out the song of their people is bigfoot farting in a large trash can for a very long time.

 

IMO rolling coal for the sake of rolling coal should be a ticket/fine but if you let out a puff taking off or shifting or going uphill with a load shouldn't be ticketable unless it's being done to excess (ex: lugging the motor).

The old saying outta sight outta mind would go a long ways to calming down folks on diesel emissions.

 

I was behind a fella in a GM D-max one time and he started rolling coal on a busy two lane road. My wife said "that truck is sick" to which I replied, "the truck is fine, the driver is sick".

 

I voted for #4. I look at this about the same way as motorcycles and muscle cars with strait pipes...knock yourself out. Have fun making as much smoke as you want. Just don't be an a-hole about it. You aren't impressing anyone, and they're not enjoying sucking your smoke into their a/c

 

Those with vehicles modified specifically to give off a lot of smoke should be forced to get a facefull from their own pipe. Maybe then they'll understand why nobody else likes it.

 

I rarely find something worthy of the word hate, but I'm not a fan of the smoke. I wish there were a few more moderate choices.

 

come to New Jersey and try that. it will cost you $5,000 for a first offense.
rolling coal makes about as much sense as throwing kittens out of the window of a moving car to punish your children because they did not take care of the kittens.

 

I am with ford six. It is their money their truck but they need to sniff that crap. You would think the the big garbage can at the end of the exhaust would hold it.

 

Im very surprised at the number of people who say it should be ticketable. I believe that in certain situations, it should be. When you are in bumper to bumper traffic, its frustrating, and could be dangerous. But if you are towing a monster trailer, and it starts smoking, I really wont care. And to all the people who roll coal, you are making the road VERY dangerous for motorcycle riders. Not only can people not see them, but it makes the road very slick. Just my $0.02

 

there is a big difference between closing down a road with thick clouds of black soot just to because you drive a dodge with a cummings that makes 500000 HP while getting 2000 MPG, and pushing slight smoke because you are hauling a heavy load up a hill.

 

Illegal in calif.

 

A haze while pulling a hard grade is fine. Any more and you're just pushing the EGTs into dangerous territory, and wasting fuel.
Mechanical engines will give a bit of smoke before the boost starts coming up, but that can be limited by various devices. It takes some tuning to get the right balance between tip in response and low smoke levels though.

 

I think we all know right from wrong, truth from fiction. A heavy loaded truck blowing a bit of smoke is one thing but a smart *** throttle jockey rolling coal is an assault.