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Buying red diesel

Coaldust

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I’ve never seen or heard of drivers tasked with additizing loads with dye. I guess anything is possible. B20, ULSD, heating oil, off-road, RUG, Ethanol-free. Multiple products have sure changed tank design. Look how popular new five and six compartment tank trucks are.
 

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I remember reading about “fuel washing” in Northern Ireland in the 2015 time frame. Found it very interesting the process they used to remove dye.
 

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Spoke to the guys that deliver here, MIDWEST Fuels, MFA, Wallis Oil, all carry a partial one gal jug of Red Solvent Dye in the trucks, takes only a ounce or two per farm tank(250-400 gal) to dye the fuel. Drivers Hate the stuff, gets on or into every piece of cloth they have and have to wear off skin if hole a glove. Midwest delivered to the yard I recently worked at, Wallis delivers to many of the local stations, same truck load of fuel they will split out to several tanks including "Off Road" station tanks, just add dye quantity to gallonage delivered. Is not any Diesel delivered less than ULSD anymore, even the Nuke that required a Premium diesel for the aged Colt Pielstick generators can only get ULSD they get additive Paraffin by the supplier to add lubricity.
 

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Off road around here is delivered dyed, when I worked for farmers co-op all off road was already dyed
at the tank farm terminal on the Snake River Pasco.

Multiple products have sure changed tank design. Look how popular new five and six compartment tank trucks are.

And expensive with the extra piping/manifolds then bottom loaders and metering for farm.
And a pita to work on.
 

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Spoke to the guys that deliver here, MIDWEST Fuels, MFA, Wallis Oil, all carry a partial one gal jug of Red Solvent Dye in the trucks, takes only a ounce or two per farm tank(250-400 gal) to dye the fuel. Drivers Hate the stuff, gets on or into every piece of cloth they have and have to wear off skin if hole a glove. Midwest delivered to the yard I recently worked at, Wallis delivers to many of the local stations, same truck load of fuel they will split out to several tanks including "Off Road" station tanks, just add dye quantity to gallonage delivered. Is not any Diesel delivered less than ULSD anymore, even the Nuke that required a Premium diesel for the aged Colt Pielstick generators can only get ULSD they get additive Paraffin by the supplier to add lubricity.

Used to put dyed diesel in the rigs I worked on and it was always high sulfur diesel. They stopped allowing dyed in rigs around 08ish and I don't know when dyed became ultra low sulfur as I didn't notice until this year as I don't buy dyed.
 

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I think all ULSD in US & Canada, on road/ off road, heating oil is less than than 15ppm. Except, in Alaska, there is a Federal exemption that allows 250 ppm heating oil. Which is common in the SE part of the state. That fuel is likely to be sourced globally, unlike the Anchorage rack Petro/Marathon/Tesoro, which is mostly from the PNW.
 

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Ruh-Roh,

OMG! The diesel is drippin’ & the terminal manager is trippin’. But, it’s not the red flavor. Knowwhatimsayin? Like 15 bucks a gallon!. Lol. Not really. It’s on the road system. MPC’s finest ULSD#1 from Anacortes.

Time to pack up my game and head out west. I’ll fix that leaky pipe, the way I know best.

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Sharp eye!.

It’s a cheap, cast, Chinese facsimile of a Victaulic model 75. But, I’ll replace it with a genuine Vic model 77 loaded with a “T” gasket.

Down south, almost everyone runs viton gaskets because of Bio fuel. But, Viton starts leaking at -20F. Buna N stays good to minus whatever, it’s too cold to deliver fuel, temperature. So, only genuine Victaulic “T” gaskets for me.
 

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Replaced a number of Victaulic seals over the years, mainly because the cheapskate I hauled fuel for bought the cheaper incorrect seals thinking would get by!! He found his at a Fire Sprinkler supplier, what a dork.
 

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Everyone can relax. T58 is back on the road delivering non-dyed, off-road to the good folks living in the shadow of Mt. Denali. Worked a late one and pump tested her with 500 gallons this morning. No leaks. Cargo Tanks big or small, NTS LLC fixes them all.

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Everyone can relax. T58 is back on the road delivering non-dyed, off-road to the good folks living in the shadow of Mt. Denali. Worked a late one and pump tested her with 500 gallons this morning. No leaks. Cargo Tanks big or small, NTS LLC fixes them all.

That all most looks like a Boston tank.
 

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Why yes it does. Boston is a Tremcar product and Tremcar purchases ALMAC tanks from those French speaking Canadians. The truck in the picture is built by Oilman’s in SC with an ALMAC tank.
 
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