Propane on the highway

kaiser715

kaiser715

Doing hard time
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7, Pocket, NC
Anybody running 'pane on the street?

How do you do the road taxes? Pay at the pump? Does the state track it by license plate or what? Or do you just save receipts to show tax paid? Who's gonna stop you and enforce it anyway, the DMV?

Are you running forklift tanks, or ASME tank?

PM me or email dp(at)sanlee.com if you don't wanna tell it like it is in a public forum. :)
 
I'm interested in this as well! I spent all weekend searching and didn't find too much. I know alot of service trucks use it. I just bought a pane'ed Industrial Ford 4.9 and wanted to drop it in a truck and run it. The filling stations for me from work to home are privately owned. Would it be an idea to have a large tank at the house to be filled and set up my own filling station? I'm within 5 miles of a major pane distributor.

Beat me to it Kaiser715! Not hijacking, just jumping on board.
 
I talked to a propane guy the other day. They are not set up to collect the road tax. Says that a dealer that is set up for it has to have your plate # when you fill up, and that goes into the Revenue Dept's database...then you get audited, especially if you don't buy as much fuel as they think you should be buying (IOW, they assume you are doing a lot of on-road driving, and using non-tax fuel, too). Don't know if that's BS or not. That would be a problem for me...in my CJ, I doubt I'd use a full tank on-road in a year's time anyway.

Can set up a tank 500 gal (400 actual gallons full tank) with wet leg fairly inexpensive. Used tanks go for about $1 per gallon capacity, wet leg setup runs $150-200. Says to do it in summer, pay summer rates for the fuel. Only problem, when filling tanks by gravity, you have to have the 10% vent on the small tank cracked open for 10 or so minutes....neighbors will smell the gas stink and either complain or call the FD. Not a problem if you aren't in a residential area, and you let neighbors know to check with you first and see if you are filling tanks.
 
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