The sulfur content of ULSD is so hard to get down to
that 4.7 million barrels per day of crude oil from USA wells is sold overseas
out of over 12 million barrels per day of USA production

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...ports-tick-production-higher/ar-AA19qNe7

This is all part of the “hidden cost” of our NOx pollution laws.

Not one in hundred US citizens is aware of the vast cost of all this
and not one in a thousand citizen is aware of what shaky ground the science of NOx as a pollutant is.

We dump vast quantities of Urea fertilizer on the ground which creates NOx in air.

My DEF filter is plugged on my 2015 diesel, a new one is around $1000-1500 and just getting the thing burned out is $800, thanks pig piss...

I don't use my truck like you do but this is why I won't buy anything that has the DEF on it . my truck has 191k , still got a lot of life left in it ...

My father in law is a farmer, and has to deal with the DEF none sense on his tractors and combines. He can be in the height of planting season, OR harvest running, and the damn DEF unit will put the machine in limp mode until it is fixed. Total effing craziness.

Water and food are certainly crucial industries.

In this “transition period”
shouldn’t water and food producers have been given electric vehicles to use alongside their existing equipment
until “all the electric equipment bugs were worked out? “

Naw, that would have been too logical....

What is strange is that I have been getting a message on the dash that says EXHAUST SYSTEM SEE DEALER IMMEDIATELY and the DEF needle has not budged for 500 miles, but it still runs and drives just fine except I am getting a rotten egg smell much like my 07 Cummins truck did before I needed to do a regen. So it is not using DEF but has not gone into limp mode. I used it for 200 miles yesteday and the same thing, people tell me to run the piss out of it to get it nice and hot, so I did just that yesterday. Still get the message but it is not as frequent anymore...

I have no interest in electric equipment. We are trying to get done before the weather hits and you can't have a tractor, combine or sprayer sitting because it needs the battery charged. We leave equipment in fields at night and no way to charge them. Miles from an outlet at times.
I had a temperature sensor on the DEF tank on a combine go bad during wheat harvest. Dealer had it and was covered under warranty. The dumb part, the sensor was on a manifold in the DEF tank. So you replace the pump, the temperature sensor and other parts just to fix one problem. It was an expensive part if not under warranty.

those people that are telling you to "run the piss out of it" just want you to kill another transmission........

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You don’t need to “run the piss” out of it…. sustained rpm is what is required to perform/complete a regen, “IF” that’s all it needs. Personally I don’t see a ton of issues with the system at work, but I hear quite a few tales of people in cold country having probs. My favorite era is the 14-18 model years. Pretty solid platform. My 17 3500 is so much more relaxing to drive than my old 01 was, and it’s nice to start it up in the garage and not stink the whole place up