Dye Filter

LOL but heating fuel is more expensive than kerosene. It is also dirtier too. He may get a discount if he is buying the fuel at 2000 gallons, but why do you want to be illegal?

Are you saying you want to fall for a ruse, put dyed fuel in your tractor and get hit with a fine if not more as the DOT will charge you perhaps for a year of fuel just for one tank full? You also realise the dye is good at registering a trace amount in your tanks? So even if you had a cup of dye in 200 gallons of fuel your going to get nailed.

Not worth it. Run legal, do it right and stay right, dont cut corners, because when you do you will pay for it to the extreme! The public wants to crucify us, and you want to encourage them to have more reasons?

 

He is talking about off road diesel, farm diesel, same as other diesel but they put about a quart of red dye in 8000 gal, you don't get in trouble with the DOT, it becomes a tax man matter.

 

Just had level 1 in NE. One of the 1st things he did was take fuel sample. DOT will definitely get you in trouble. Did pass and got new letter for windshield. Whow!

 

Exactly....

Some states have smoke signature monitors at the coops...
Dyed diesel emits a signature that will get you nailed at these coops....

 

The on spot fine is $10 a gallon for the tank capacity of the truck up to a maximum of $3000, if you carry more than 300 gallons then you don't get charged for the extra capacity. Now here's the interesting part. When you get caught the agent/officer that writes the ticket will report it to your home state or the state your IFTA is based in. Would you like to have all your fuel reports for the last few years audited? They will be and every fuel receipt will be checked to see if you bought dyed or off road fuel...........even if you bought on road fuel, if the receipt doesn't state that on it........you are going to be assessed a fine and penalty.........plus they will still do a standard audit to see if you didn't pay or report all your miles, fuel bought and fuel taxes owed.

You can't afford ULSD/on road fuel now..............you really won't be able to afford getting caught with dyed LSD/off road later

It's time to tell whoever you are hauling for to raise their rates to cover your costs or quit

 

It's already been thought of. A friend here does maintenance on dry cleaning equipment. They have filters that clean the fluid used in dry cleaning (removes the dye) problem with running diesel fuel through it is while it MIGHT remove some of the dye, it probably also removes a lot more than that. So chances are your left with something that smells like diesel but without a lot of lubrication or BTU's.

So other than not being worth doing for tax and legal issues it's not really as easy as it may sound.

Oh and no I didn't try it, this guy brought it up because he saw the fluid before and after it was filtered and wondered if it would work on fuel.

 

You can't even pour used oil in your tanks now-a-days.

I don't believe the color filter story, sounds like the other "marshall" story. :rofl:

 

Wouldn't it just be easier to only haul loads that pay enough to cover the fuel?