Truckers Inn Complex Manager, Lowell Helgeson, has used Schaeffer products for over 15 years. It has been a good experience.
Lowell uses #137ND Diesel Treat 2000™ Ultra Low Sulfur in the summer and #137B Diesel Treat 2000™ Ultra Low Sulfur in the winter.
Greg Barber, Superintendent of Roll N Rock, says, "What I first noticed about Schaeffer's was the longer operating hours we were getting on the Diesel Treat 2000 fuel additive. Before, it took a full tank to run 10 hours. Now with Schaeffer's additive, I still have a quarter tank of fuel left at 10 hours. So I can operate about three more hours on a tank than I could before.
Greg added On our trucks, we get about three fourths more hours per gallon of fuel. That's a Kenworth 500 HP Cat engine with a 20 yard dump truck and a hot footed driver. All of their equipment is on Schaeffer products now. They also use #700 Supreme 7000 15W-40 engine oil. They were changing oil at 15,000 miles, but with Schaeffer's oil they've moved up to 18,000 miles in very hot conditions. Schaeffer's #229 Ultra Red Supreme grease has cut their grease usage, too.
In March of 2008, R. B. Oder Construction in Gladewater, TX, began using #137 Diesel
Treat 2000™. Floyd Rumbaugh is in charge of vehicle maintenance on the company's Chevy Diesel trucks and several front-end loaders.
To track the effects of Diesel Treat 2000™, Floyd kept meticulous records and compiled the graph shown. Before using our fuel additive, they were averaging about 9.5 mpg, not pulling a load. As the graph indicates, the mileage climbed to over 12 mpg and then dropped in September, 2008. The drop in MPG was the result of pulling a trailer with their LB75B backhoe during that month. Even pulling a load, the mileage was better than without Diesel Treat 2000™. Once they began running without the trailer in October, 2008, the mileage went up and leveled off at around 13 mpg. Floyd also said that the operators of the backhoes reported that the equipment has more power and runs better since they began using Diesel Treat 2000™.
David Carpenter sprayed his 300 acre hay meadows with 1pt of Wet-Sol 99 mixed with 250lb of liquid fertilizer. The county rated his crop basis at 2.2 rolls per acre. He received enough rain during the year, but he was amazed that he got 3 cuttings averaging 7 large 6x5 rolls to the acre. The last cutting was 10 rolls to the acre and he put up 2200 rolls this year. Where he didn't spray with Wet-Sol 99, he didn't make any tracks in the soil when it got dry, but on the Wet-Sol 99 meadows, he couldn't linger when getting his hay up, or he could get stuck on the meadow. David said Wet-Sol 99 works as Schaeffer said it would - it takes the moisture down and holds it at the root zone, resulting in heavy production, even when the climate is dry.
David has a customer with large acreage that he commercially sprays. If David doesn't use Wet-Sol 99, the customer gets mad. The customer wants Wet-Sol 99 used on any application that David sprays. The chemical reps in the area said that horse nettles and bull nettles couldn't be killed. They said the nettles could be suppressed, but not killed using 2 quarts of Grazon® P+D. David applied 16oz Wet-Sol 99 mixed with 1pt Grazon® P+D and 1 gal 32-0-0 fertilizer to the acre. The horse nettles and bull nettles were crispy dead in 30 minutes. This is a big cost savings.
