Thread: premium diesel

Yep a rip off.

We have a local servo with a dedicated truck canopy, it dispenses truck diesel. The car canopy has only special (?) diesel at three cents dearer. All diesel bowsers draw fron the same underground tank.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

We have a local servo with a dedicated truck canopy, it dispenses truck diesel. The car canopy has only special (?) diesel at three cents dearer. All diesel bowsers draw fron the same underground tank.

So you pay more to fill at a slower rate?

more or less

when the new common rail diesels came out as part of the requirements to meet the euro standards low sulphur diesel was rolled out.

for a while there were 2 types of diesel, truck or agri diesel for the older engine and the new ultra low sulphur stuff.

now theres just one, the low sulphur stuff.

the low sulpher stuff was replaced with the "preimium" branding and a few more bits have been added and subtracted to the mix.

As above, only difference is the flow rate (and nozzle size) at the pump. The lower price is because trucks usually fill in multiples of hundreds of litres at a time.

Originally Posted by rick130

So you pay more to fill at a slower rate?

Yep, and the windscreen washing kit has an effective additive in the truck bay, as opposed to plain water under the lower canopy.

Dang, that sounds like a rip off to me...

Down here we get both premium petrol and diesel but it is actually different stuff, or so they say. It even comes from different tanks. The base fuel is the same though. We have only 2 or 3 brands with large fuel deposits and they all fill up at one of those and add 1000 litres of additives down the block. This determines if it is a normal or premium fuel and which brand you are using.

There is one exception with petrol though, if you buy premium at two brands (shell and bp only) you get 0% bio-ethanol crap so that is a different base fuel I guess but this is not relevant to diesel

Cheers,
-P

Yep, I thought the premium diesel just had detergent type additives in it.