Posted on 09/04/2016 4:48:13 PM PDT by NRx
MONTROSE, Colo. — There is a new menace on America’s roads: diesel truck drivers who soup up their engines and remove their emissions controls to “roll coal,” or belch black smoke, at pedestrians, cyclists and unsuspecting Prius drivers.
Sgt. Chris Worthington of the Montrose Police Department here is out to stop them.
“You can hear those trucks across town, driving like idiots,” he said on a recent Friday evening patrol. He is among the first law enforcement officers in the country to be trained at “smoke school” to pick up the skills to police the coal rollers.
He lost sight of one truck cruising in the opposite direction, trailing plumes of smoke. But another, a Ram 3500 fitted with two steel smokestacks, was parked in a Walmart parking lot. The owner, Pryce Hoey, insisted his truck was emissions compliant, but nevertheless agreed to demonstrate its smoke-generating prowess.
“I just wanted something different,” Mr. Hoey said, revving the engine and releasing two black pillars of smoke into the evening air before Sgt. Worthington shut him down. “People who see it giggle. They think it’s funny.”
Depending on whom you ask, rolling coal is a juvenile prank, a health hazard, a stand against rampant environmentalism, a brazen show of American freedom. Coal rollers’ frequent targets: walkers, joggers, cyclists, hybrid and Asian cars and even police officers. A popular bumper sticker reads “Prius Repellent.”
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Unfortunately my Ford rolls coal to a small degree after the Cummins was slightly modified. I need the extra power in the Appalachians. It means the truck is not burning fuel efficiently. I’m looking for a way to get more complete combustion. Until then I try not to rabbit the throttle.
Air flow is the answer. Until your turbo spools up even a good tuned engine will smoke a little. Check out EFI Live if you have some bucks to burn.
Protesting against a regime drunk on its own power is the American way.
Drove a wrecker my first tour of Germany, M816 5T. Normally governed at 2100 RPM my Cummins NHC 250 was jacked to 2850 so instead of 56 MPH it did 80. I also crimped the return line on the injector pump to force more fuel into the engine. It looked like an old locomotive going down the Autobahn :)
Rollin’ Coalin’-Coalin,’ Keep them trucks a’ Rollin’...
What kind of Ford has a Cummins?
The NY Slimes just discovered Rolling Coal? It has been around for years. Here’s just one of many videos from Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY
Any kind you do an engine swap on.
Several minutes later, the truck returned to smoke them out a second time.
“What the hell. Can you believe it?’” Mr. Gelder remembers shouting to his friend Steve Fischer, a Canadian journalist who was touring with him. “It’s like weapons. They think: ‘We’re entitled to our guns, and we’re entitled to our roads,’” Mr. Gelder said. “It’s almost an assault.”
The group alerted the police in Morristown, Vt., who Mr. Gelder said took no action. Andrew Glover of the Morristown Police Department said that officers would probably not pursue the case.
“We don’t have a law against whatever they did,” he said.
Mr. Fischer later wrote up the group’s ordeal for the Canadian news network CBC. “I gave the driver my middle finger and yelled words I am not allowed to use on the CBC website,” Mr. Fischer reported.
Go rollers!
I never had any interest in owning a diesel until now LOL !
CNN report ca 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaMDE5qrsA
More than a couple of country singers had it in their lyrics back in the 1950s.
I have a friend who has dual stack on his truck and he loves to roll coal. Every time I see him, I say, “Hey Greg. That’s really cool what you do with your truck. What do you call that? Smokin’ pole?”
Every single time, he gets upset and start cussing me. I’ve done it at least a dozen times. I’m kinda bored with the joke, but anything that gets a rise like that one has to just keep going.
Check this one out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tKJ6oZOkNo
Did you swap in that Cummins or was there a year that I wasn’t aware of it’s offering ?
To pull power I still think the Cummins is the “simplest”. The Ford engines are more complex than a BMW 7.
And yes, driving the rockies is incredibly demanding. Not even Colorado regulators seem to grasp this.
Ford put the 5.9 in the medium duty F600 & F700s. In the 90s.
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I hate the emission on diesels The turbo and oil get sooted up and the particulate filter gets hot so fear a fire in grass when off road.
“Protesting against a regime” sounds so much better than “being a jerk to strangers”.
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