As others have said, diesel is diesel. The only difference in off road and on road is the dye and the tax. Granted there is a winter weight, and a summer weight, but beyond that, it's pretty much all the same stuff.
That being said, all diesel fuel now is "crap". The 'industry' can say what they want about the ULSD being as good as the older LSD, or the even older fuel, but it's not. Ask any fuel shop, or equipment mechanic, and we'll pretty much all tell you the same thing, The difference is what we are saying is based on actual field observations rather than what some guy in a lab is telling us.
As far as cleanliness goes, all dispensing pumps have, or should have, a filter to keep trash from getting into your tank. That doesn't mean they are always maintained properly. Nor does it mean that water won't pass through them. I buy at various stations when I am on the road, and have found both trash and water in my filters.
In other words, the last line of defense if yours. The older systems ran much lower pressures, and had looser tolerances than the new systems, so they were more tolerant of contamination. The result is most old systems will run around a 10 micron filter. You can often get a better micron rating on your filter, usually down to around 3, by getting into a filter book, and finding one with compatible size/thread specs, and the finer rating.
The end result is regardless of where you get the fuel, it's going to work just fine in your older machine. The only thing you need to so is run an additive with it to make up for the lubricity lost with the reduction in the sulpher content. If you have an diesel in your pickup, it pays to run additive in that too. I started running it in my service truck right before the switch to ULSD, and picked up around 1 MPG. Given that I average around 5000 miles per quarter, that nets me around 167 extra miles. Given I charge $1.50 per mile, I can make an extra $250 per quarter for an investment of around $75 in additive, and know my injection system is going to last longer because it has the lubricant it needs.
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