Off Road Diesel

[npalen]

I pull my little Kubota up to the off-road diesel pump at the local quick shop and tell them I would like to buy about three gallons of off-road. The clerk says they are allowed to sell it only to "farmers". I know that isn't right so I tell her I am a farmer. (Well I am an "old farm boy") Anyways, she makes a phone call (in some language other than english, and puts me on the line with the owner. They reluctantly agreed to sell me the three gallons after I told them that I had filled out and signed the form a while back, which I did.
How to deal with these people?

 

[mkr7734]

I pull my little Kubota up to the off-road diesel pump at the local quick shop and tell them I would like to buy about three gallons of off-road. The clerk says they are allowed to sell it only to "farmers". I know that isn't right so I tell her I am a farmer. (Well I am an "old farm boy") Anyways, she makes a phone call (in some language other than english, and puts me on the line with the owner. They reluctantly agreed to sell me the three gallons after I told them that I had filled out and signed the form a while back, which I did.
How to deal with these people?

Guess the problem there is you drove your little Kubota up to the off-road diesel pump at the local quick shop and asked for "Off" Road diesel. By driving it up you were "on" the road, not off-road. Just a thought, why I have a transfer tank for my tractor. I don't know of any stations in IL. where you can drive up and get off road, not to say there are not any, I have just never seen any. Here you have to have a bulk fuel supplier deliver it to you.

 

[4570Man]

There is a place you can drive up to here. I haul a 55 gallon barrel in the truck and fill it up, then unload it with the tractor.

 

[Oldpath05]

"How to deal with these people?"

Does it ever make you want to go terminator on them.............Terminator - I'll be back 18p (HD) - YouTube

Since when is putting off road fuel in a tractor illegal, never heard such a thing, good grief Charlie Brown, maybe there breaking the law. I can get ORF in can, jug, barrel or tractor anytime I want.

 

[mkr7734]

Anyways, she makes a phone call (in some language other than English, and puts me on the line with the owner. They reluctantly agreed to sell me the three gallons after I told them that I had filled out and signed the form a while back, which I did.

I think the key here is this,,,,,,,,,,,,, (in some language other than English, :duh:

 

[stuckmotor]

How to deal with them: Try buying the diesel in a 5 gallon container.
At one place in town I have to sign a paper saying the diesel is for off road use. At another, I just swipe my credit card at the pump and fill up never having to go in unless the reciept printer isn't working. Come to think of it, when I drove the tractor from my house in town the 12 miles to the farm, I did stop by the station and fill up. If the transportation policeman had been driving by, he might have had something to say. My guess is that the store owner suspected you were an under cover agent trying to catch him on a technicality.

 

[DT86]

I'd deal with someone else next time instead of those commies.

 

[MHarryE]

Did you really need to ask permission? If I happen to be in town, which is rarely, I can swipe my credit card, fill up and go. Same thing if I fill my odd road tank with fuel and it is less than the credit card limit (always use the card to get 4 cents off per dollar charged). One of the 2 stations in town did require me to sign a statement that I am a farmer, not to be able to pump the off highway but to avoid the sales tax they must charge non-farmers in MN who use off highway fuel. Same thing with all the Ag stores in the state - I have to fill out their form once and after that no more sales tax on farm supplies.

 

[npalen]

Did you really need to ask permission?

They won't turn the pump on until permission is given. It's no big deal, paying the road tax on what little fuel my B9200 burns, just kind of irritating. Next time I'll just buy the road diesel and eliminate the drama.

 

[sea2summit]

There is a place you can drive up to here. I haul a 55 gallon barrel in the truck and fill it up, then unload it with the tractor.

Same here, never heard of having to sign a form though...hope I'm not missing something.