Red Fuel
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From: Indiana Cornfields
Ya in her in Indiana they never check tanks in pickup trucks. I see semis getting checked all of the time though. However, our fines are through the roof. $10,000 is the bare minimum. And if you have over 20 gallons they start fining you by the gallon. I don't know what the per gallon fine is but that really adds up in a semi!
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From: Huntsville, TX
Well I can say I have been dipped a few times. All of which have taken place near the Brazos County line on TX HWY 30 going from Bryan, TX to Huntsville, TX. I dont know why, but they seem to target me... lol. Heck I dont even have a bed tank!
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From: Fitzpatrick Alabama
They used to check me all the time, but in the past year or two not very often. They set up at the exit to Blackmon auctions and checked me and everyone else, I heard that someone bought a truck there and was driving home and got a huge fine for running red, on the day he bought the truck, it had been in there when he bought the thing. I think they just checked me b/c I had a huge round tank in the back with fuel lines running to it, but it never had offroad in it.
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From: Fitzpatrick Alabama
Must have been dyed Kerosene, I used to live in Arkansas, out there kerosene was clear, but here in Alabama it is dyed just like offroad, by the way if he thought kerosene was going to help lubrication I believe he was wrong, thats worse than Ultra Low Sulfer fuel.
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From: jeromesville oh
that's crazy how they dip tanks in certain areas. i personally don't even know anybody in a truck that's been dipped. that boggles my mind that in west virginia they set up " dip stops" they don't have better things to do?? then again a number of years ago off 77 there was an old sunoco station in wv, and that was it no town or anything maybe 6-10 old shacks that people were living in near it, they had gas pumps and 2 pumps off the side of the station, kerosene, and off-road diesel. i thought it was different, no on road fuel just off road at that po-dunk station. the off-road sign was written on cardboard also. gee think they might dip around that area??ha-ha
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From: Brevard, NC
they dip tanks in pickups regularly around here, thought the fines for first time offenses aren't that bad i hear... i've never run off road...
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From: Nutter Fort, WV
I am sure parrt of it has to do with WV being a small state.
Then you have to consider the winter road damage from freezing and thawing.
Plus the nice level ground means lot of salt in the winter.
Our roads go to pieces just from the weather.
Part of the reason I get checked so much is the places I go.
One of the roads I am on a lot has an auto auction, NAPA warehouse, two equipment dealers, a fuel distributor, two different cement companies, four trucking companies and a building material warehouse all within 5 miles of the interstate.
Lots of trucks all day every day.
Then you have to consider the winter road damage from freezing and thawing.
Plus the nice level ground means lot of salt in the winter.
Our roads go to pieces just from the weather.
Part of the reason I get checked so much is the places I go.
One of the roads I am on a lot has an auto auction, NAPA warehouse, two equipment dealers, a fuel distributor, two different cement companies, four trucking companies and a building material warehouse all within 5 miles of the interstate.
Lots of trucks all day every day.
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From: Troy MT
hey dave, you lookin to hire any one
ive been runnin equipment since i was 6, my dad sold and delivered tractors for john deere ( ag and commercial ) im good with any thing that digs, cuts, pulls or pushes.
ive been runnin equipment since i was 6, my dad sold and delivered tractors for john deere ( ag and commercial ) im good with any thing that digs, cuts, pulls or pushes.
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From: Nutter Fort, WV
Rather long commute from Montana.
Week late and a dollar short, we just hired a new guy last Monday.
85% of my work is retaining walls anymore.
Throw in a wet basement or two and site utilities from time to time.
Here is a set of steps I built a while back.
I do most of my work with a 252 Cat skid steer and a 304 Cat mini excavator.
My tallest wall so far is 34 feet with a 5 story Hilton hotel setting on top of it now.
Week late and a dollar short, we just hired a new guy last Monday.
85% of my work is retaining walls anymore.
Throw in a wet basement or two and site utilities from time to time.
Here is a set of steps I built a while back.
I do most of my work with a 252 Cat skid steer and a 304 Cat mini excavator.
My tallest wall so far is 34 feet with a 5 story Hilton hotel setting on top of it now.
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From: Troy MT
im just wanting to get out of here and get a job.. i know ive gotta finish this year and graduate but im not sure if i want to go to a vocational school or just start some dead-end job... im wanting to either be a mechanic or run equipment
no snow on the day after christmas? wow
no snow on the day after christmas? wow
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From: Troy MT
just a fuzz o' snow
that was in one night i believe a week before christmas
17 inches if pow over night, and they diddnt plow the roads so it was fun to drive on, i had to do 55 to stay ahead of the pow cloud
that was in one night i believe a week before christmas
17 inches if pow over night, and they diddnt plow the roads so it was fun to drive on, i had to do 55 to stay ahead of the pow cloud
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So how they know if tis offroad diesel and not something else? Cause I dump a quart of ATF in my front tank every time I fill up (lubrication additive for the IP and injectors), and guess what color the fuel comes out if I decided to drain my fuel-water separator. It ain't dark red of course, more like pink, but tis still reddish - how they gonna tell if it ain't no offroad diesel? Cause I don't even know where they sell offroad diesel round here!