Using Red Diesel for a Unimog

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

I'm off down to Atkinson Voss & AC Price to look at some mogs tomorrow, I'm wondering if any of yous have had run-ins with the law reguarding using red diesel in unimogs on the road.

 

Any loop holes in the law you know of would be appreciated

 

[WorcsWuss]

White unfortunately. No legal way round it.

 

Not that it saves much these days anyway, over £1 a litre now apparently according to my supplier this morning...!

[niftysteve]

not been stopped in my mog for fuel check ever but usually on white as above not worth driving out my way to buy red

[Old Mill Tree Care]

You can't use red if doing Arb work and it's definitely not worth the risk.

 

 

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[tree monkey]

we buy red from local garage and its only 90p per litre .

if your using a tractor for arb work does that have to have white in it?

[Stephen Blair]

70p a litre here from local fuel guy.

[agrimog]

1st thing, is it registered as an agricultural machine.

2nd, are you doing FORESTRY work, NOT arb work, rules are quite clear here, no grey areas, if you only collect from roadside, no, but if you actually enter the "forest" to retrieve your timber , then yes

3rd, you are restricted to the distance you can "take goods", but there is no limit on the distance you can "collect goods", weird one that?, and

4th, you can deliver, and collect from a dealer, or repairer, no limit on distance.

with a carefull "interpretation " of the rules you can run on red as long as you do "forestry" work, just make sure youve got your story right and double check on the hmrc website, and print a copy off to keep in the cab, just in case your stopped by an overzealous idiot, you shouldnt have a lot of bother up here though

[agrimog]

by the way, whos supplying red at 70p, its a lot dearer just down from you?