
Gas Truck Synthetic Motor Oil
Shell Rotella Gas Truck full synthetic motor oil, from the makers of Shell Rotella heavy duty engine oil, a leader in diesel engine oil for more than 40 years. Shell Rotella knows truck engines and Shell Rotella Gas Truck full synthetic motor oil provides extreme wear and extreme temperature protection to protect your truck’s engine.

Shell Rotella Gas Truck 0W-20 Full Synthetic Motor Oil offers many benefits, which include:
- Protects your truck engine in extreme temperatures and conditions
- Outperforms conventional motor oil in severe driving conditions
- Provides unsurpassed wear protection. Based on Sequence IVA wear test using SAE 5W-30.
- Maximum protection for both older and new truck engines
- Helps keep your engine clean
- Helps prevent sludge and other damaging deposits
- Synthetic base oil for added oxidation stability, improved volatility and low-temperature properties.
- Protects horsepower
- Available in 0W-20, 5W-20, and 5W-30 One quart and Five quart bottles
Main Applications
Shell Rotella Gas Truck 5W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil is recommended for use in all vehicles requiring the use of SAE 5W-30 viscosity grade synthetic engine oil under all driving conditions, particularly gasoline pick-ups and SUVs that tend to experience more extreme conditions including driving with heavy load, driving in dusty conditions, stop and go driving, frequent short trips, extreme hot or cold temperatures, and extensive idling.
SAE 0W-20 viscosity grade motor oils are commonly recommended for use in many new vehicles with modern engine technology for maximum fuel economy performance.
Shell Rotella Gas Truck 5W-30 Full Synthetic Engine Oil can be mixed with other synthetic and mineral oils.
SAE 0W-20 motor oils may not be suitable for use in older engines, so always consult your owner’s manual for the correct viscosity grade and performance recommendation required for your vehicle.
Is Rotella Gas Truck a good fit for my vehicle? Please use this infographic to determine if your vehicle will benefit from Rotella Gas Truck motor oil.
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Introducing Truck Oil
Title: Introducing Truck Oil
Description: Finally, a motor oil meant just for your gas truck. Here’s everything you need to know about Shell Rotella Gas Truck.
Duration: 1:20
[Background music plays]
“Sound of Shell”
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Yellow background appears with all caps white letters inlaid.
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The biggest name
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Wide shot of a semi driving down a two-lane highway appears. As it drives forward it reveals all caps white text over a blue sky.
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In diesel protection
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Yellow background appears with all caps white letters inlaid. The number 40 takes up most of the screen. The 40 is initially filled with shots of cars, then switches to white like the rest of the text. We quickly cut to a centered Pecten. It slides to the left and the Shell Rotella logo appears in the empty space on the right.
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For over 40 years
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We quickly cut to a centered Pecten. It slides to the left and the Shell Rotella logo appears in the empty space on the right.
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Shell Rotella®
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White background appears with all lowercase yellow letters inlaid. Three words appear all on the same line.
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Introduces the next (replaces “brings the next”)
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Alternating red and yellow background appears with all caps white letters inlaid, growing larger as they appear to move closer to the viewer.
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generation
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White background appears with all lowercase yellow letters inlaid, growing smaller as they appear to move farther from the viewer.
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of Shell Rotella motor oil.
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Alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white all-caps words inlaid. The words are short, bold and fill the whole screen. Before “TRUCKS” a red truck is quickly flashed. The same happens with a yellow SUV right before “SUVs”.
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Only
For
Gas
Trucks
And SUVs
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. We quickly cut to a yellow background with white text in the form of a checklist. “Trucks” appears with a check box to its left, “SUVs” quickly appears below it in the same fashion.
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No, really.
Just for gas-powered
ü Trucks
ü SUVs
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. We quickly cut to various still portraits of truck owners, who look proud and strong. The photos are bright and beautiful. The same yellow text remains inlaid over each one.
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Because truck owners
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Alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white text inlaid. The text is in 3 different horizontal lines, the middle line simply being a massive, all-caps word (“CAR”). The text is covered up by hundreds of cars in a parking lot. They all parked extremely close together and all look the same.
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Are different than car owners
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Yellow background appears with white letters inlaid. Three vertically-stacked words appear, the middle being the operative word. It is the largest and isn’t white like the other two, but filled with footage from the action it is describing. For haul we see a man loading wood into the bed of a truck. For tow, a red truck tows a large boat towards the camera. For climb, a jeep navigates up a steep rock. And for work we see a hand sporting a work glove grab a piece of plywood from the bed of a white truck.
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They haul more
They tow more
They climb more
And they work more
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Yellow background appears with white letters inlaid. A large engine appears behind the text, and the background changes to red. To the beat of the music, we cut to a much tighter shot of the engine.
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While using bigger engines
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. On “high” we switch to a yellow background with flames in it. Over the flames, we see an all-caps, full-screen word (“HIGH”) in red text. The same happens for “temperatures” but with yellow text and a red background. The red flames engulf the screen.
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That operate at high temperatures
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. Cut to a yellow background, where the Shell Rotella Gas Truck logo appears in red and grey. To display the last two words of the phrase, we quickly cut back to a white background with yellow letters.
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That’s why Shell Rotella® Gas Truck gives them
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Yellow background appears with all-caps white letters inlaid. Beneath it, a horizontal pour shot runs from left to right.
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Extreme wear protection
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Alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white all-caps words inlaid. The words are short, bold and fill the whole screen.
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that high-torque
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Red background appears behind an all-caps white word (“TRUCK”). A red truck pulls into the frame. Change to a yellow background with a huge red ampersand, then cut to an all-caps white word (“SUV”). A yellow SUV pulls into the frame.
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truck and SUV
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The background becomes a close-up shot of an engine. The word “powertrains” appears over it in white all-caps letters. Cut to a yellow background with the word “need” over it in rede all-caps letters.
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Powertrains need
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Wide shot of a man shutting the door to his truck appears. As the door closes it reveals all-caps white text.
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For the new
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Close-up shot of a man opening the gate of his truck, revealing all-caps white text.
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and the old
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. Cut to a yellow background with giant white text. A red truck is in the foreground, facing the left side of the screen. It appears to pull forwards as the screen appears to pan from left to right, revealing the whole phrase. The panning stops on a tiny yellow car.
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It’s time to stop treating your truck like a car
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. Cut to a red background with giant yellow text, then alternate from yellow to red background with white text over it.
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And give it extreme wear protection
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A wide shot of an SUV driving through a muddy creek. No text is on screen. Cut to alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white all-caps words inlaid. The words are short, bold and fill the whole screen.
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For this extreme
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Close-up show of heavily-treaded tires driving up a muddy slope. No text is on screen. Cut to alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white all-caps words inlaid.
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This extreme
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Close-up show of tires driving through powdery snow. No text is on screen. Cut to alternating red and yellow backgrounds appear with white all-caps words inlaid, followed by footage of a traffic light changing from green to red.
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And this extreme
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid. Cut to a yellow background with giant white text displaying the number 1.
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From the makers of the
#1
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White background appears with yellow letters inlaid, then begins to flash between yellow and white, the text alternating accordingly. For “In North America” we cut to alternating red and yellow backgrounds with a single all-caps word inlaid per frame. The Disclaimer is present for this entire sequence.
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From the makers of the #1 diesel engine oil brand in North America (Add disclaimer: According to Kline 2017 report)
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A bottle shot appears over a yellow background, the 5-quart bottle appears first, followed by the 1 quart. Cut to an alternating background with all-caps letters.
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This is our first Shell Rotella truck oil
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While the colors are alternating, the phrase reorganizes itself. Some words quickly slide off screen, and others move to form a new phrase, “This is truck oil”. The two bottles appear to the right of the phrase.
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This is truck oil
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A yellow background appears with the Shell Rotella Gas Truck logo over it. The logo remains and the background switches to white.
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Shell Rotella® Gas Truck
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In the same way that we’ve seen, 3 large, all-caps words animate quickly over alternating background. We see “MEANT / JUST / FOR” in this fashion. On “you” there is a change of pace. It appears in small, lowercase yellow letters on a white background. It shrinks from large to small, appearing to move farther away from the viewer.
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Meant
just
for
you
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A white background fills the screen, the Shell Pecten in the middle. This lasts for several seconds. While we see the Pecten, we hear the clarinet mnemonic.
OEM Specifications and Approvals for Shell ROTELLA® Gas Truck Full Synthetic Engine Oil
- Chrysler MS-6395
- Ford WSS-M2C947-B1 (0W-20)
- Ford WSS-M2C945-B1 (5W-20)
- Ford WSS-M2C946-B1 (5W-30)
- GM dexos1 Gen 2 specifications
Shell ROTELLA® Gas Truck Full Synthetic Engine Oil Exceeds the requirements of the following industry specifications:
- API SP
- API SN-Resource Conserving and all previous categories
- API SN PLUS
- ILSAC GF-6
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