Diesel Liberty

In the Peoples Republick of Kalifornia, diesel is priced higher than unleaded premium by a few cents.

And modern high pressure style injected diesels are currently not allowed.

Jeff DeWitt proclaimed:

Holy crap! Downwinders are going to need a respirator after sucking in a putrid lungfull of that stuff.

As part of an agreement with the city we use as a base terminal, we now have to voluntarily submit to a 'smoke test' at our own expense. I like the Freightshaker I'm in right now, and El Jefe says I can keep running it, as long as it will pass the test and doesn't blow up. Even though it uses a 1999 500-hp Detroit S-60 with 430,000 city miles on the clock, it passed easily. HA!

Everyone else loves the new KW's, and anyone who wants one, gets one. I like this old piker much better because it has a short wheelbase, has a 4.30 rear with a Fuller 13-sp RTX, and the seat is finally broken in enough to fit my ass perfectly. They wanted to scrap it last year when the transmission croaked, but I talked them into letting me keep it if I could bribe the mechanics into installing another used-pull out of a wrecked rig.

I nearly lost it again 4 mos. ago when the turbocharger exploded. It took 3 extinguishers to put out the fire, and I had to do some FAST TALKING to get freaked-out strangers to stop and help me put it out.

I guess I'll have to eventually give it up if CA Smog Nazi's keep having their way. This spring we get to endure new sulphur-free diesel fuel, and I'm sure more exhaust-plugging equipment is in the works. This, comming from an agency that was actively working on methods for reducing BULL FLATULANCE.

Bulls around here didn't think much of having corks in their asses.

-JD

We hump 1200+ tons/wk. of assorted aggregate products, 80-90 gals/day,

-JD

Blue and yellow plates? That goes back to the days of wig-wags and tube-amplified CB's. Nice rig though. You'd starve to death trying to play owner-operator these days.

The woman in my age range only need a cup of herbal tea. :)

-JD

That _may_ change once diesels can meet tier 2 bin 5 standards:

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Bill, what's the peep site for?

I like Western Stars.

Spdloader

lol That was funny!

Spdloader

There is a VW Touareg TDI that I meet every now and then when it is in state. Far cleaner exhaust overall than a goodly number of the gas burners I see every day on my commute. There *is* still a problem with aerosol emissions from even the super high pressure diesels but it isn't unbeatable. The emissions checks will need to change to make sure that owners get their filters changed when needed, but I don't see that as fundamentally different than keeping a cat in good shape. Be interesting to see what VW/Audi does with the results of their new racing diesel that is smog legal. Still wonder if a combo electric gasoline might offer the torque of a diesel and the rpm range of a gasoline.

Or we might all have to just start carrying big rubber bands, or squirrels, or long extension cords soon.

Earle, Earle, Earle.. you selfish man.

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: > Bill... that's bullshit and you know it. : >

: Kate, Bill is a communist. He thinks that only people who "need" diesel : fuel should have access to it. I expect him to show up here any day, with a : court order, commanding me to move out of my two story house, so that the : couple across the street with three kids on welfare can move in. : : Earle : : : *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** : *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from

BILL! Have you lost your mind man? You need to take that down, and take it down right now. Or so help me, I will go out and crash into someone ans give them YOUR information.. .what are you tinking????

: > Can we all get together to buy Bill a good old timey steam engine so he : > can go babble himself to sleep and everyone else can actually talk about : > engines from the most recent TWO centuries? i.e. after he last actually : > was within a mile or two of modern technology.

Lucky bastard. You must be up there near humboldt where they grow their own herbs.

Kate