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Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Ridge vent material
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 07:09:15 -0800
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This comes up a lot with the off-road crowd.
My motorhome has 2 100 gallon gas tanks. One outfitted with a pump intended
to refuel other vehicles.
Came as an option straight from the factory.
I've seen many large 5-wheel "toybox" trailers with similar setups, along
with many folks hauling out a large number of gas cans on their trailers.
If there was a law limiting quantity, the CHP in California would be all
over the folks on I-8 in socal heading to and returning from the dunes.
Lord knows they fly-in-formation with every RV looking for stuff they can
ticket you for as it is - ask me how I know.

Back a few years I had a GMC truck with 3 gas tanks totaling just over 70
gallons...
I'm sure everyone has seen the construction and farm trucks running around
with large tanks in the bed to service equipment...

I keep hearing that "they" don't allow it, but no one seems to know who
"they" are, or are able to produce any real evidence.

I am aware that there are limits to what you can haul in a non-ventilated
(like the trunk of a sedan) or passenger area of a vehicle.

Looking at all the angles, I contacted my insurance companies (Geico and
AAA), neither had anything in their policies about the *amount* of fuel
being hauled, only that the "method" used to transport it not be in
violation of any fed, state, local ordinances, laws.. blah blah blah....

Today, I have a approx 60 gallon tank that I made from aluminum "diamond
plate" so that it fits under the bed toolbox for the back of my Dakota.  A
12V pump from a catalog (I think it was Northern Tool) is strong enough to
push the fuel up to the wing tanks on my Stinson.  MUCH safer than the 6-pak
of 5 gallon plastic Blitz gas "cans" I used to have to haul up a ladder, and
less potential damage to the wings.
Since I'm restoring the Stinson now the tank is unmounted and with the whole
state of affairs with ethanol and 82UL and such, it's next life might go
back to hauling gas to the desert  :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
> Behalf Of Ernest Christley
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:27 AM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Ridge vent material
> 
> Mike Wills wrote:
> > Scott,
> >
> >  Thought about doing this myself  because I'm tired of hauling gas in
> > gas cans. But I've been told its against the law (federal law) to
> > haul mogas this way. Anyone have any further info on this?
> >
> The federallies limit you to 50 gallons or so.  State and local
> ordinances will be all over the place.  The rules will be kept in the
> bottom drawer of a non-descript filing cabinet in the basement of an
> annex to the local municipal building. (My apologies to Douglas Adams.)
> 
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