if that's not a case that makes you wonder .. heck if the vehicle was used on a farm isn't that where 'farm diesel' is supposed to be used??

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

Thanks for all the replies.

I did'nt think they bothered with passenger vehicles, but it's better to be safe and ask.

The reason I brought it up at all is that I live about a mile from a major petroleum depot. All the local fuel oil co's get their loads there, and I've seen them get checked periodically.

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'83 300D
'87 Volvo DL Wagon
'88 420SEL (SOLD)
'98 Toyota Camry SE V6
'96 Ford Brono XLT
'94 Mercury Villager
'46 Willy's CJ2A
'40 Packard 110 4DSD

"Just another squirrel, trying to get a nut"

Never been checked for untaxed fuels, but I have for STD's!

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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto

1983 300D - parts car

1979 300TD Auto - Parts car.

1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts.


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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol

If the vehicle was licensed for operation on a public road, I'd say that was the problem. Farm operations are not exempt from sales tax in Oklahoma for any supplies or parts for any vehicles licensed for operation on public roads and highways -- EVEN IF THE OWNER'S MAIN USE IS IN AGRICULTURE. Most other states have similar tax rules and regulations.

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I'm wanted in four states, but it's all good. Got me a new driver's license and a sweet new pickup. V-8, Baby, five-hundred horsepower. Oh, and four of them mudflaps with the naked ladies on them. GRRRRRRRR, MAMASITA!!! And the best part is, it's all free!!! Yeah, well, for me at least!!!! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

oh ok, i get it, if the truck wasn't registered then it would be ok to run it on farm diesel.
still though, sounds like a pretty harsh interpretation to me..


now, what if you have a diesel powered boat...

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

Yes - but it's not the license - it's the operation. He can run all over his property with untaxed fuel - but operation on a public highway is where the exemption stops - but wait it gets more confusing - you can operate a combine on a public highway with untaxed fuel, because you can't register the vehicle for highway use

The best one I saw was the pickups used by the railroad with the fold down train wheels (trucks). Pulled up to the crossing retracted the wheels and hit the highway right by where we were working --- oops red fuel.

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97 S500
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86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
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"now, what if you have a diesel powered boat..."

Pleasure boats never get checked. We actually don't have to pay road taxes, I know if you buy something like over 200 or 300 gallons of gas a season you can get your road taxes back, diesel I assume is the same, However I know of a few boats whose owners own oil companies. I'm sure they run exclusively on heating oil.

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2023 Ram 1500
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Anyone who uses their vehicles for farming, or other offroad business use, can apply for and receive a refund on their road fuel tax for the amount that their vehicles were used offroad.

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I'm wanted in four states, but it's all good. Got me a new driver's license and a sweet new pickup. V-8, Baby, five-hundred horsepower. Oh, and four of them mudflaps with the naked ladies on them. GRRRRRRRR, MAMASITA!!! And the best part is, it's all free!!! Yeah, well, for me at least!!!! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

Hmmm..., "Mercedes Benz bailer"?????

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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto

1983 300D - parts car

1979 300TD Auto - Parts car.

1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts.


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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol

Don't laugh, leathermang is planning to use a normally aspirated 617 to power his kick-a** DC welder.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Mount a bail spike on the back of your M-B and add a brush guard up front and you'll be all set.

I USE IT TO FEED MY COWS!!!!

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I'm wanted in four states, but it's all good. Got me a new driver's license and a sweet new pickup. V-8, Baby, five-hundred horsepower. Oh, and four of them mudflaps with the naked ladies on them. GRRRRRRRR, MAMASITA!!! And the best part is, it's all free!!! Yeah, well, for me at least!!!! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

Actually, it goes even further than that...I think that marinas around here only sell red diesel. Of course they still rape us on the price but I've never been on a diesel-powered boat (and I've been on quite a few ) where the fuel wasn't red...

Now there's something I haven't yet seen down here in OK, but it would not shock me at all. Actually, when my wife wouldn't let me put naked-lady mudflaps on the duramax, she said I could put them on the benz. I wonder if Ranchhand makes a replacement front bumper for Mercedes?

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Keep everything as simple as possible-but no simpler--Albert Einstein

egggadddddddd and you announce this on the net?.... I know I wouldn't go near you if I knew you had four different STD's. ohhhhhh...... :p not those kinda STD's


okkkk.. so it was a real bad joke.

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by JerryBro

The Glow Plug Wait: This waiting period is a moment of silence to pay honor to Rudolph Diesel. The longer you own your diesel the more honor you will give him". by SD Blue

My normal daily life; either SNAFUed- Situation Normal... All Fouled Up, or FUBARed- Fouled Up Beyond All Repair

62 UNIMOG Camper w/617 Turbo, 85 300SD daily driver- both powered by blended UCO fuels

23 miles NE of the mythical site of Lake Wobegon (one of Garrison Keillor's books [and the National Geographic article] has a picture of a farm belonging to one of my father-in-law's cousins), all the farmers used to put a trailer hitch on every new car they bought, as soon as they bought it, in an attempt to justify taking a tax deduction for depreciation of the car as a farm machine. Of course, almost all of them made so little net income that they rarely owed income taxes anyway in those days.