anyone got any first hand anecdotes, experiences, knowledge ?
Yes don’t do it… No different to putting water in there it’ll ■■ it up
Have the truck remapped so it’s not an issue.
An “ex” driver at our place did it with a 65 plate DAF. Got about 50 litres in IIRC. He left Grantham and finally got to around Cambridge before it finally chugged to a halt. Last I heard was that the repair bill was around £8k and climbing. The reason he’s an ex driver is that the cctv clearly shows him finally figuring out what he was doing wrong about 50 litres in, but instead of walking straight to the garage he decided to press on and hope it would be OK. It wasn’t.
the maoster:
An “ex” driver at our place did it with a 65 plate DAF. Got about 50 litres in IIRC. He left Grantham and finally got to around Cambridge before it finally chugged to a halt. Last I heard was that the repair bill was around £8k and climbing. The reason he’s an ex driver is that the cctv clearly shows him finally figuring out what he was doing wrong about 50 litres in, but instead of walking straight to the garage he decided to press on and hope it would be OK. It wasn’t.
Better to drain £600 of diesel and take the michael out of the driver for the rest of his working days.
Yes. Had a young lad in for interview, some experience but not much but seemed to have his head screwed on so I recommended we employ him. Two days later he fills up a massive diesel tank on a nearly new R620 (why someone gave a new inexperienced driver that to drive is beyond me) and buggered it up. ‘It wasn’t me’ he said. How the f… does he think that’s possible. Truck was in dealer days. What does company do? Keep him on so they can deduct the cost from his wages. Bad idea I say but no one listens. 3 weeks later he’s crashed into everything under the sun and caused damage running into 5 figures money wise and is finally sacked.
Appearances can be deceptive and from then on my interviews always involved the question ‘you do know the difference between Ad Blue and diesel don’t you?’
switchlogic:
Yes. Had a young lad in for interview, some experience but not much but seemed to have his head screwed on so I recommended we employ him. Two days later he fills up a massive diesel tank on a nearly new R620 (why someone gave a new inexperienced driver that to drive is beyond me) and buggered it up. ‘It wasn’t me’ he said. How the f… does he think that’s possible. Truck was in dealer days. What does company do? Keep him on so they can deduct the cost from his wages. Bad idea I say but no one listens. 3 weeks later he’s crashed into everything under the sun and caused damage running into 5 figures money wise and is finally sacked.Appearances can be deceptive and from then on my interviews always involved the question ‘you do know the difference between Ad Blue and diesel don’t you?’
So … You recommend to employ … Which means he’s good enough but not to drive a nearly new R620 … If he’s not good enough to drive that he’s not good enough full stop in my book .
That’s why a decent driving assessment is worth doing before taking anyone on. Personally a driving assessment would be all types of road for a good hour in all types of traffic.
nick2008:
switchlogic:
Yes. Had a young lad in for interview, some experience but not much but seemed to have his head screwed on so I recommended we employ him. Two days later he fills up a massive diesel tank on a nearly new R620 (why someone gave a new inexperienced driver that to drive is beyond me) and buggered it up. ‘It wasn’t me’ he said. How the f… does he think that’s possible. Truck was in dealer days. What does company do? Keep him on so they can deduct the cost from his wages. Bad idea I say but no one listens. 3 weeks later he’s crashed into everything under the sun and caused damage running into 5 figures money wise and is finally sacked.Appearances can be deceptive and from then on my interviews always involved the question ‘you do know the difference between Ad Blue and diesel don’t you?’
So … You recommend to employ … Which means he’s good enough but not to drive a nearly new R620 … If he’s not good enough to drive that he’s not good enough full stop in my book .
Everyone has to prove themselves. You’ve got to be realistic in this day and age, there will always be different levels of trust with different drivers. Its the same in any company. Besides giving a not long passed 24 year old a new R620 Topline is liable to make things go to their head. You can’t possibly really know how a driver will perform in the long run from interviews and assessments alone.
switchlogic:
nick2008:
switchlogic:
Yes. Had a young lad in for interview, some experience but not much but seemed to have his head screwed on so I recommended we employ him. Two days later he fills up a massive diesel tank on a nearly new R620 (why someone gave a new inexperienced driver that to drive is beyond me) and buggered it up. ‘It wasn’t me’ he said. How the f… does he think that’s possible. Truck was in dealer days. What does company do? Keep him on so they can deduct the cost from his wages. Bad idea I say but no one listens. 3 weeks later he’s crashed into everything under the sun and caused damage running into 5 figures money wise and is finally sacked.Appearances can be deceptive and from then on my interviews always involved the question ‘you do know the difference between Ad Blue and diesel don’t you?’
So … You recommend to employ … Which means he’s good enough but not to drive a nearly new R620 … If he’s not good enough to drive that he’s not good enough full stop in my book .
Everyone has to prove themselves. You’ve got to be realistic in this day and age, there will always be different levels of trust with different drivers. Its the same in any company. Besides giving a not long passed 24 year old a new R620 Topline is liable to make things go to their head. You can’t possibly really know how a driver will perform in the long run from interviews and assessments alone.
But you can have a kiddy pass his car test in an old banger then daddy gives him a top notch BMW ( other products available ) to run around in , it don’t mean he’s gonna bust it.
A father probably knows his son a little better than a driver I’ve just met to be fair…
Back to the subject in hand…
That’s ones costly mistake … How the hell has someone manage it…Normally the blue cap is the dead give away or I go by this anecdote…big tank = Fuel tank - Little tank = Adblue…
Can be expensive if the unit is run down the road… best get it recovered to the nearest dealer…
Swampey2418:
Back to the subject in hand…That’s ones costly mistake … How the hell has someone manage it…Normally the blue cap is the dead give away or I go by this anecdote…big tank = Fuel tank - Little tank = Adblue…
Can be expensive if the unit is run down the road… best get it recovered to the nearest dealer…
Yeah lol
Walkers crisps Leicester , Scania twin tanks .
The driver has been driving new DAF’s but gets one of our older Scanias .
Hmm let me see
Fuel tank on the left so the right hand 200lt tank must be ad-blue yeah 
Oh and that was a mature driver with 10yrs experience
Failing that if you can’t identify where to fill up ad blue…refer to vehicle owners manual or ask someone before you leave the yard… rather look a ■■■ for asking than a complete ■■■■ for getting it wrong… 
We’re only human, even the most known quantity to ourselves can escape us at times.
If unit weren’t run then its a drain, flush, refill, purge and hopefully all well…
If its been run, as we all know that’s a whole different ball park…so its as above but I’d want a full oil change, then after its been sat an run up to temp another one done…all fuel filters changed, full diesel flush, possible injectors out and cleaned too, and the glow plugs checked, cleaned…
Then its pray to god nowts got bent, burnt out…
Hopefully he don’t get too badly mauled for his actions lol…
Ask McCulla and their MP4 Actros with the big derv tank N/S and the small one O/S and the add-blu in the strange place up behind the cab.
Complete ballicks to fill pulling a fridge!!!
Ballbag driver filled the wee derv tank to brim with Add-blu@ Topaz Dublin port and 100yds down road she stopped.
Truck recovered all the way to Lisburn.
Drained tank and back on road but BIG mistake.
Add-blu had crystallized in engine so £6k strip and rebuild by Agnews!!![emoji15]
I am a Fleet Engineer for a company that hires trucks. We have had some trucks with Add Blue in the fuel tanks and run the truck till it stopped, and it cost near £15000 to get them sorted.
Injectors, fuel pump low pressure and high pressure pumps, fuel tanks and all fuel rails changed to get them right.
We had one that was in and out of the dealers with injector faults, in the end the pre filter was dropped and it was full of add blue. another 15k spent and charged back to the company that had it on hire.
Cheers
Welly
Mike-C:
anyone got any first hand anecdotes, experiences, knowledge ?
Should of stuck too the advertising vans by the sound of it 
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember when ad blue first came out, you had magnets in the tank and on the nozzle, and the stuff wouldn’t dispense until these magnets had lined up??
bugcos:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember when ad blue first came out, you had magnets in the tank and on the nozzle, and the stuff wouldn’t dispense until these magnets had lined up??
They still have them afaik, im a bit weird when fuelling up, i check about 5 times before sqeezing the nozzle. Im the same in cars.
Derv tank, black filler cap, big hole, ■■■■■■■■■ nozzle. (normally)
Ad-blue, blue filler cap, little blue hole, little blue nozzle. (normally)
And no iv never got it wrong.
Not excusing the one(s) who got it wrong, but…
Would it not reduce the chance of this happening if there were a big “Diesel” label next to the diesel filler cap, and a big “Adblue” label next to the Adblue filler?