#2 Diesel vs Red Diesel US

[ard]

Damn funny...

40 cents a gallon from people spending $1000 a month to drive a luxury SUV.

I could see it from truckers running 12 hrs a day 6 days a week....

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by ard

I could see it from truckers running 12 hrs a day 6 days a week....

Yeah, they watch the truckers pretty closely. I recall years ago there was some requirement that truckers buy a certain amount of fuel in the state they are traveling through, so that they couldn't fill up in a low-tax state and avoid paying high fuel taxes in a high-tax state. Now I think they have to keep mileage records by state and file tax reports and fuel records to pay the appropriate fuel tax to each state they travel though. I think they do random checks for red dye in the tanks as well.

It must be a real PIA to be trucker nowadays with all the paperwork.

The IRS has a document for truckers about dyed fuel:

http://www.dol.wa.gov/vehicleregistr...dyeddiesel.pdf

[JCL]

Depends on geographic location and fuels sold in that area, but where I am...

Dyed fuel comes out of the same truck. The dye gets added at delivery. Residual dye stays in your vehicle a lot longer than a couple of tanks, it is fairly easily detected. Fines are high for using it on-road. Anybody ticked off by you cheating the rest of the drivers out there by not paying road tax can report you.

Not worth it.

Ethically, it is just the same as stealing a portion of your fuel.

[blondboinsd]

Originally Posted by ard

Damn funny...

40 cents a gallon from people spending $1000 a month to drive a luxury SUV.

I could see it from truckers running 12 hrs a day 6 days a week....

[alvam]

Originally Posted by ard

Damn funny...

40 cents a gallon from people spending $1000 a month to drive a luxury SUV.

I could see it from truckers running 12 hrs a day 6 days a week....

totally agree and quite frankly seems to be a lapse in judgement to cheat your way to saving a few pennies