What to do if you have put wrong fuel in your truck
If you have put the wrong fuel in your truck, then there are two cases. Either you realized your mistake before starting the truck engine or you didn't. If you did, then just call a fuel draining company and you'll be out of trouble in a short time. If you have started the vehicle and are still running it, stop it immediately as excessive Petrol is damaging your Diesel engine.
If the entire Diesel truck tank is nearly full with Diesel and you only add a small amount of petrol in it, there is a good chance that the fuel will blend in and the engine won't feel it that much. In that case, you can keep the truck running and keep refuelling the truck a lot more than usual to make sure that all the Petrol contamination is gone.
Importance of Trucks
Majority of trade currently being done in the world is done with the help of trucks. Some people say that sea cargo is the main contributor in the world trade business. But, all those containers can only be carried to the dock, and to carry them to specific locations deep in the land, you need trucks to carry those containers. Help of rail services is also taken in this regard.
With such a huge significance of trucks in the trade business, it also increases the amount of trucks currently running on the roads in the United Kingdom. Trucks are mostly run on Diesel, so there are also a decent number of incidents of the wrong fuel being put in Trucks. Nearly all the trucks currently in operation in the world are running on Diesel as Diesel has the advanced of being more efficient and environment-friendly as compared to Petrol.
Wrong Fuelling DAF FC Drained
The night had just set in when Gloria Adem set out for Felixstowe from Charlton, UK to take a container shipment in his DAF FC truck which was headed to Rotterdam from the UK's busiest sea port. He stopped at a fuel station and filled his truck to the brim and set off.
He had barely covered a few hundred meters when the truck started taking jumps and making weird knocking sounds. He immediately stopped it and came out to inspect the issue. To his shock, he realized that he had filled his truck with gasoline. The tank barely had any Diesel and filling the tank with Petrol really made the engine struggle.
Fortunately, his friend had recently given him the wrongfuelling.co.uk card and he called us. Our team reached the spot in due time and fixed the whole issue, and refuelled the truck with Diesel again. Gloria Adem thanked our team set off for Norfolk once again.
Why Drivers put Incorrect Fuel in Trucks?
In areas of high altitude where weather is extremely cold in winter, there are some cases of drivers putting 10% petrol in their Diesel trucks while filling the rest of the tank with Diesel. They say Petrol helps the engine to keep running and not freeze in the cold weather, which keeps the truck running even in the harshest of conditions.
The technique explained above worked alright on older diesel trucks. Today's Diesel trucks are fast and more efficient but they do not handle wrong fuel circumstances as well as they should. So, one should always refrain from putting the wrong fuel in their trucks. People insert erroneous fuel unintentionally when they're not really focused on inserting the fuel. This lack of concentration ends up being their downfall as they commit the mistake of inserting the wrong fuel in their trucks.