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#81

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by luvrbus - April 07, 2026, 04:09:34 PM

I can remember before the IFTA driving a truck over a 2 ton you pulled into the weight station leaving Texas with their cheap taxes, they would gage the tank and you paid that states tax on fuel for gasoline or diesel fuel in the tank. You had to carry a receipt proving you purchased fuel in that state if you were ever stopped it is a lot easier now since the 90's 

#82

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by freds - April 07, 2026, 03:12:10 PM

I really messed up. After fueling up at $3.50 in AZ on the way back home, then seeing $5.50 back in CA, I drove home on near fumes banking on prices not going much higher. Now I sit needing 150 gallons at $7.50 plus. Sure took the wrong side of that bet. lol

I make it point to never buy fuel in California or heck as little as possible here in Washington State!!! So when going to Quartzsite in the winter I fuel up just before leaving Oregon and then again when I cross the boarder in Arizona. Or when I am east bound when I get to Idaho.


Turns out that truck drivers that operate in multiple states are under much different rules, if they load up in one state and then drive in multiple states they own fuels taxes in the different states. Pay high tax in one state and then burn it in another then you are owed a credit, etc.

Interesting video that covers this subject on YouTube:

#83

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Keep Your Bus Rolling—Without ...

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#84

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Mechanic in Central WA?

Last post by jbnewman - April 06, 2026, 07:34:30 AM

Who is Precision Diesel and where are they located and do they work on 2 strokes?

They're the shop I found in Yakima to do my inspection and my pre-roadtrip work. They don't have a huge amount of 2 stroke experience, but for what I need, that's OK. They'll work on them, and seem to have a good sense of what they do and don't know - and are willing to go learn.

#85

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by luvrbus - April 04, 2026, 06:29:05 PM

When we left home in 2008 or 07 fuel was around 2 bucks a gallon before we got home after a 4000 mile trip we were paying 5 bucks a gallon in todays  world that would be over $7.00 a gal.  I noticed in Strawberry AZ at a station I buy from they have the off-road fuel pumps shut down a clerk has to turn it on for the farmers and no filling tanks or drums in a pickup. My grandson in Texas told me they are not doing it there yet. Texas has a lot of stations and convenience stores in the small rural towns that sell off road fuel-the taxes. We don't have a shortage just high prices, time to buy Exxon if you  have money left         

#86

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by windtrader - April 04, 2026, 04:42:24 PM

I really messed up. After fueling up at $3.50 in AZ on the way back home, then seeing $5.50 back in CA, I drove home on near fumes banking on prices not going much higher. Now I sit needing 150 gallons at $7.50 plus. Sure took the wrong side of that bet. lol

#87

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by Dave5Cs - April 04, 2026, 01:30:57 PM

Went to Topeka KS yesterday and fuel was 3.69 gas and 4.75 Diesel.
Here in Wamego KS it was #3.39 gas and diesel was 4.34.

#88

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Fuel Price

Last post by rancher - April 04, 2026, 09:52:38 AM

I am glad I bought all my gas, diesel and propane before the end of 2025 for 2026. Didn't think the prices were great then but we needed some tax deductions so we went ahead and pre bought. Glad we did. Sam's club in Lincoln Nebraska was the cheapest in out area and was $3.20 for gas and $4.70 for diesel yesterday.

#89

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: Series 60 - DDEC III vs DD...

Last post by luvrbus - April 01, 2026, 07:31:49 AM

The IV has a lot of features the average person would never use or the equipment to read one like a tour operator needs, I am going try and call you today, Mark

#90

Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) / Re: And so the hunt begins ...

Last post by Boomer - April 01, 2026, 07:30:55 AM

My friend John Ostmo owns a beautiful Vogue 5. It is really a beautiful rig to me. Like the style and engine. Not many of them produced. When Mitchell owned the company and it was in OK they made a pretty nice rig. I owned a Vogue IV for a few months, didn't like the cramped driver cockpit, too cramped for me.