All,
Seen next to the M6 yesterday, in compound that looked half Arfur Daly, half Pop Larkin. Large, 30ft wide hand painted sign - "Diesel Dye" for sale. Surely that's illegal? Passing off TVO that has been 'recycled', is the only thing I can think it could be used for.
John
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I saw that and wondered.
I also thought that given a couple of the other current threads, your thread might be asking 'how do I get dye out of diesel?' To which my response was going to be 'just put it in the tank as normal, and add 1lb of sugar per 5 gallons of petrol.' ;)
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Isn't this a dye sold to fleet operators in order to combat the problem of their drivers theiving the fuel? I'm sure I've seen such stuff available on Ebay. I suppose that if you run a fleet of lorries with a tank for re-fuelling back at the yard, there must be a temptation to certain drivers...
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And it is a temptation that at least one driver has given into. The was a story in the local news a couple weeks ago about a driver that was charged with stealing fuel from their employer. Wouldn't be very hard to do I suppose, just pop round to your house and syphon off a few gallons into the family car.
I have heard of other methods for removing dye from diesel, but adding sugar to it wasn't one of them. It wasn't mentioned to trip up those looking to defraud C&E, was it?.
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Any truck driver with a diesel car always gets looked at more closely by their employer, Can't understand why myself ;O)
And both my cars are Petrol........
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I seem to remember that, at the end of the 70s, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries changed their company car scheme to be only diesels so that they could all be fuelled at the depots. Don't know what they did about personal vehicles.
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