New Ride - Truck

[hemibee]

You nailed it, they think the tank will explode.

Here you can get a small portable tank for you grill at a lot of locations but for filling a tank whether it be large or small you have limited locations. In the farm areas the farmers are serviced by a local company that supplies their large bulk tanks and they either fill the vehicle tanks off their large tank or for road vehicles they can stop in at the company office. Most tanks used by the farm trucks are in the 100 gal size range.


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[CarlS]

Thank you all for the compliments. Mable loves her truck and I enjoy driving. It is a much better truck than her Tundra. We both own trucks and do not own a car. Therefore we have the crew cabs which gives us the advantages of a both a car and truck.

Sharron just checked it out and asked why Mabel didn't get a bigger one.
Cool purchase and they say you can't take it with you, so at our time of life lets all cut loose, you two are showing us the way.

BTW, what's it running on, petrol, diesel or gas?

Tell Sharron, that that this is a half ton pickup, the smallest of the full sized pickup trucks. Light trucks come as half ton, 3/4 ton, and one ton. My F-350 is a one ton pickup. As others have said, it is a gasoline engine. My F-350 is diesel.

Thats the sort of truck I like,but over here at $2.25 per litre, or $8.55 per US gallon,its drive a truck like that or eat.

I understand that. If those were the prices here, I'd be driving a Ford Ranger!

Carl,

Does that RAM have a short bed or is that just the angle of the photo?

Looks like a 6 foot bed as opposed to an 8 footer.

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AJ, it is a six foot bed. Mabel uses her truck for commuting, grocery, shopping, and hauling stuff from Home Depot and Lowes. The short bed makes it it easier to maneuver and park in suburbia. The 4X4 comes in handy in North Carolina and on the ranch in Lake City, FL.

We Australians call your "gasoline" petrol and gas is always natural gas. If I went into a service station and asked for gasoline they would look at me strangely while they figured out what I actually wanted.

"hemis are gasoline engines".
For some reason can't they do a (natural) gas conversion? My daughter drives a GM V6 that was built for petrol but now runs petrol or gas. Saved heaps of money, our government pays for the duel fuel conversions.

Kevin, when traveling, especially in the western US, natural gas stations can be quite scarce. Even LP can be a problem to find except for filling trailer LP bottles. Add to that the cost of the conversion and it is not worth it at present.

 

[otherwise]

when traveling, especially in the western US, natural gas stations can be quite scarce. Even LP can be a problem to find except for filling trailer LP bottles. Add to that the cost of the conversion and it is not worth it at present.

If you have to pay full price for a gas conversion then only people who do a lot of miles each year tend to fit duel fuel conversions, noticeably our taxis are mostly running on LP.
When our government introduced generous rebates to convert to LP on personal transport, and solar cells on our houses that put power back into the grid the take up was more than they expected. They had to reduce the unit cost that they were buying electricity from households in order to slow the take up.

 

[CarlS]

I would say the incentives worked well. We receive an income tax break if we install alternate power sources in our homes. I do not know about vehicles. My F-350 will run on biomass diesel.