who has been stopped

[DF5152]

I was wondering if anyone has ever been stopped and had there fuel checked in your pick up. Big rig dont count. .



If yes by whom and where?

 

[Kmac]

Where: Arizona Port of entry

Who: Arizona DOT



I have been checked 3 times in less than a year. My truck is registered as a commercial vehicle, so I am forced to clear all open ports of entry in the US.

 

[y-knot]

Yes I have ... . When in my work truck I have been stoped 3 times, always in Ohio. It has a 100 gal diesel fuel tank I use to re-fuel equipment, and my truck at home (don't tell anyone). And in my truck, I have a 45 gal tank for fuel while on the road, we pull a large trailer and some times you can get low of fuel, and only find small service stations, which will not work. I have only been checked once in my truck. It most likely depends on where you are, many times large construction jobs have the DOT waiting for weight and fuel violators.

 

[johnmoore]

I was checked last year here in WV. The state had a check point set up on a 2 lane road in the middle of nowhere. They were checking all diesel vehicles not just the big rigs. My only worry was that they would dip my tank with a used stick. Was told they didn't reuse them.

 

[Crunch]

Originally posted by DF5152

I was wondering if anyone has ever been stopped and had there fuel checked in your pick up. Big rig dont count. .



If yes by whom and where?

Not yet. I think there are too many diesel pickups in Texas to warrant a general fear. Even if they were doing a lot of spot checks the odds of any one individual getting stopped are extremely low. I do see a lot a locals and troopers running scale patrol, however, and they may be doing fuel checks on the larger trucks (dumpster trucks, big rigs, cement trucks, etc. ) when they check the logs, licenses and weight.

 

[Mtngoat]

I've never been checked but I have heard that farmers have come out of stockyard salebarns and find someone sticking a test strip in their tank. Don't know if thats true but have heard the rumor a lot.

Robin

 

[Jdonoghue]

Originally posted by Mtngoat
I've never been checked but I have heard that farmers have come out of stockyard salebarns and find someone sticking a test strip in their tank. Don't know if thats true but have heard the rumor a lot.
Robin

Wouldn't that be considered trespassing? I'd be pretty angry to come out to my truck and find someone messing with it without my permission

 

[cumminspwr01]

Got checked in a company truck once at the New Stanton exit off the Pa turnpike. I figured I got checked because there was an auxiliary tank in the bed for the bull dozers.

 

[truckstom]

Not in the Dodge yet, but once in my Freightliner, coming up from the valley. It wasn't the DOT either, was the IRS... .

 

[moparguy]

Three years on a 2 lane road near a big farm auction. Checking all diesels including pickups.

 

[amillstream]

Got checked last year by the IRS. Had a guy at every light at a four lane intersection in Ravenswood WV. If it was diesel, they were checking it.

 

[guava]

I've got ten years in police work in big cities and rural counties. I've never seen it done, never done it myself and during some training with commercial vehicle types, never had it mentioned.



Wouldn't it be amusing if the DOT/EPA/IRS/trooper types bothered to read sites like this to try to find some easy pickin's

 

[amillstream]

Wouldn't it be amusing if the DOT/EPA/IRS/trooper types bothered to read sites like this to try to find some easy pickin's [/B][/QUOTE]



Uhhh... ... NO!

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Never heard of them checking pickups in Alaska. Not sure about big rigs. But I carry heating oil home and it isn't dyed. In fact at the gas station where I get it the diesel and heating oil are drawn from the same holding tank. Just one pump charges more.

 

[John Berger]

not yet. There's an ag inspection station on the Florida-Georgia line. I think they can check fuel, but I've never seen them do it.

 

[BobSacco]

Not me, but my friend in his 1st gen dually got stopped just outside a cattle sale in Saluda, SC about 6 months ago.

 

[rholcom2]

Being Stopped for Fuel

I live in a small southeastern Indiana town, Versailles. The DOT's in this area are very very THICK to say the least. Recently they have been sitting up road blocks, and pulling EVERY diesel truck over and putting them on the scales, dipping tanks, and checking trailers/tiedowns if the truck is pulling anything. Along with this, if the truck is pulling a trailer and is over 10K lbs they have been ticketing them for driving with no CDL lisence (yes a pick up, you need a CDL to drive it if it weighs more than 10K lbs goign down the road). And, on top of this, if you are pulling for a business you are ticketed for not having DOT #'s on the side, and your business name on the side. A friend of mine that owns his own lawn care business got ticketed last week. His total $790. 00 He got ticketed for: Red Fuel, Not having 1 push mower tied down (which was between two scag zero turn lawn mowers), Improper tie downs (they say you have to have CHAINS on 4 corners), No CDL, No Business Name on the side of the truck, No Indiana DOT# on the side of the truck. It cost him 3 hours sitting along the road with his 4 employees, and 790 dollars in fines, and about 3 days of making phone calls, 200 bucks for stickers, and about 150 in registration fees, and about 200 bucks for new chains. This state is rediculious. We figured it up, he goes out of state 1 or 2 times a year, and leaves the COUNTY 2 times a week to mow yards outside of the county. I believe these laws were enacted to guard us against true violators, but I believe it has been carried WAY TOO FAR!!!!



I have been told the reason for the heavy and strict enforcement is because the Indiana Motor Carriers Division is no longer state funded, they are basically working on commission. I dont know this for a fact, but thats what I have been told.



Y-Not, you better watch out, we are very close to you. Dont roll through Versailles with ANYTHIGN wrong.



Along with my close friend I know my cousin, 5 of my familys trucks, about 10 other prominent business owners have been ticketed. I have been able to steer clear.



They have however been successful in increasing the busyness of the "Back roads". If anyone is hauling much of anything, or burning red fuel they use the back roads.

 

[dberry]

Zanesville Ohio, 2 lane state route, by the Dot. When I saw the sign "all diesel powered vehicles stop ahead" it scared the crap out of me. Only thing that came to mind was e-check . But all they did was dip my tank. I think they were looking at farmers and dumptrucks judging by were they set-up. This was about a month ago.

 

[WDaniels]

Cummins Pilot,

Alaska is exempt from the dyed fuel so you wouldn't hear of it.

WD