Latched trigger mechanisms at BP sites

[wheel_nut]

Suedehead:

orys:

Suedehead:

orys:

Wheel Nut:
The handy thing with those clips is that you can fuel up, wash your windows and mirrors while doing so and normally get a free coffee for being a customer. What do we get, one stinking toilet that is normally locked, no hot water if it isn’t and asking for a watering can is like asking if you can sleep with their teenage daughter.

And check lights. I allways live my lights on when fuelling and do a walk around check…

. . . then push it off the pumps because the battery is flat

Do you really think that the batteries will go flat in 3 minutes needed to fill up the sprinter van and pay for it?

If it only takes 3mins to fill up , wtf do you need a latch.

with another 500 on the other side it gets a bit tedious and painful in cold weather

[orys]

Wheel Nut:
with another 500 on the other side it gets a bit tedious and painful in cold weather

Well, I do know that, as you can see in latest T&D (it’s allways good to make some free advertisement ) I wasn’t always driving sprinters

[coffeeholic]

Filling at Watford Gap last week I was wandering round the truck while the tank was filling and another driver tanking at the next pump commented that I was lucky as I had a pump the latch worked on. I told him I wasn’t lucky but I had a little device I could use to keep the trigger pulled. I also told him I had a spare I could sell him for a quid. He seemed most interested until I showed him the 10 pence piece I was using to hold the trigger open, he didn’t want to pay a £1 for my device then. I offered him the lesser model for 50 pence but again he wasn’t keen to pay 50 pence for a 2 pence piece either. There’s just no helping some folk.

[daf95xf]

Ive got a rivet thats works good

[switchlogic]

orys:

switchlogic:
Yes but they are by no means universal on the continent as I said. Roye BP truckstop for one doesn’t have them. Nor do many I go to.

Ah, so that theory about removing them due to intelect of the drivers are true, so as long as I won’t go to the same as you I should be able to fill up like a civlilised man?

(no offence meant, I am just joking, you are OK, I just cannot resist )

Ouch! But then we wont frequent the same stations as I drive a proper truck and you just drive a big car.

[martin]

“Don’s fire officer’s hat”

Two issues here:

1. There have been many fire service callouts to filling stations to provide safety cover whilst fuel spills due to the nozzle falling out of the tank filler have been mopped up, sometimes many hundreds of litres!

2. It is actually a breach of fire regulations to leave a pump unattended whilst it is dispensing fuel.

Not only are the nozzle lock clips being removed but some pumps are being fitted with a device that limits the amount of fuel being dispensed so that a button has to be pressed to get more, that button may be on the pump but latest recommendations suggest that it should be on the operators console so he can check that someone is in attendance.

“Removes fire officers hat”

A Zippo ciggy lighter works well
But dont walk off and leave it there, some tea leaf might steal it!

[thunder367]

well in this months trucking international or is it truck and driver they have publish a gadget that u can slip into the handle so u do not have to hold the handle any more only a few quip a i think not fully sure will check on monday when i go back to work.

[jimboy124]

Coffeeholic:
Stafford services northbound, BP site and the trigger latches work there. I know as I filled up there last night on pump 22.

Here is my reply email from BP …

Dear Jim …

Please note that the Stafford Service Station on M6 motorway is a dealer operated petrol station, the company policy is valid only for those sites which are owned and operated by the company.

I believe we have answered your query to our best knowledge and I am afraid I can not add anything to it. Thank you for taking the time to bring the matter to our attention and I am sorry that I am unable to respond more positively to you on this occasion.

Kind regards,
Andrea

Retail Customer Care Team
BP Oil UK Limited a company registered in England and Wales with company number 446915, VAT number GB 243 5105 93 and whose registered office is Chertsey Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, TW16 7BP

[wheel_nut]

Tiewraps work well too, especially when the automatic vents are working

[billybigrig]

Coffeeholic:
Filling at Watford Gap last week I was wandering round the truck while the tank was filling and another driver tanking at the next pump commented that I was lucky as I had a pump the latch worked on. I told him I wasn’t lucky but I had a little device I could use to keep the trigger pulled. I also told him I had a spare I could sell him for a quid. He seemed most interested until I showed him the 10 pence piece I was using to hold the trigger open, he didn’t want to pay a £1 for my device then. I offered him the lesser model for 50 pence but again he wasn’t keen to pay 50 pence for a 2 pence piece either. There’s just no helping some folk.

I think you may be under pricing your product Coffee…

or is this bloke a mate of Jimbobs and this is a subtle plug

Coincidentally In the paper this very day some bloke:
Kevin’s got a grip on the problem

7:40am Friday 10th June 2011

AFTER 20 years of suffering, a former lorry driver has come up with a handy invention.

In 2009, Kevin De’Cort, of the Chase, Rayleigh, left his job as a haulage driver to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.

His idea was to solve the problems lorry drivers face when refuelling their engines and came up with the Fuelgrip. This holds the pump trigger and handle while filling up a vehicle to stop the driver getting handcramps.

It went on sale early this year and has already been snapped up by thousands of drivers.

Mr De’Cort said: “We started selling it in January and they have been going like hotcakes.

“We had a stall at a truck festival in Peterborough and sold thousands. A lot of drivers I’ve spoken to have said they love it.”

The grip is made out of plastic and is small enough to fit into a vehicle’s fuel cap. It costs £2.99.

Mr De’Cort said he decided to invent the product after his experience as a lorry driver.

He said: “Lorries usually have fuel tanks about 500 litres in size, with some models going up to 1,000 litres. Filling them right up can take 15 to 20 minutes.

“This means you have to hold down the trigger for ages. It can really hurt your hand and cause problems, so I thought there must be a better way.

“You have to stay by your pump, but your hands are free and it sorts out the problem of cramping them up. It would also be a useful tool for motorists who suffer from arthritis and other conditions.”

For more details, go to fuelgrip.com

southendstandard.co.uk/news/ … e_problem/

So Jimbob is he a relative or is it purely a commission deal

Gotta love the comments …

Mark D, Westcliff-on-Sea says…
8:31am Fri 10 Jun 11

Perhaps he could invent a device that stops lorry drivers chucking out bottles of pee?"

[colingl]

Martin:
Not only are the nozzle lock clips being removed but some pumps are being fitted with a device that limits the amount of fuel being dispensed so that a button has to be pressed to get more, that button may be on the pump but latest recommendations suggest that it should be on the operators console so he can check that someone is in attendance.!

The Gilbarco Highline pumps that were at the garage I worked at in the early '90s cut off the fuel delivery at 100 litres and one of them cut off at 80 litres. As we had an ‘attended service’ licence and not a self serve all the pumps had latches. Oh and a litre of diesel was about 29p.

If the latches are fitted and the nozzle falls out the tank, then the when the nozzle hits the ground the fuel supply cuts off. I would guess with the various methods off holding the nozzle open listed here that may not happen.

[truckerjon]

Colingl:

Martin:
Not only are the nozzle lock clips being removed but some pumps are being fitted with a device that limits the amount of fuel being dispensed so that a button has to be pressed to get more, that button may be on the pump but latest recommendations suggest that it should be on the operators console so he can check that someone is in attendance.!

The Gilbarco Highline pumps that were at the garage I worked at in the early '90s cut off the fuel delivery at 100 litres and one of them cut off at 80 litres. As we had an ‘attended service’ licence and not a self serve all the pumps had latches. Oh and a litre of diesel was about 29p.

If the latches are fitted and the nozzle falls out the tank, then the when the nozzle hits the ground the fuel supply cuts off. I would guess with the various methods off holding the nozzle open listed here that may not happen.

In other words, in trying to make things safer, they have actually managed to make it more dangerous Why don’t these people think!

[coffeeholic]

billybigrig:

Coffeeholic:
Filling at Watford Gap last week I was wandering round the truck while the tank was filling and another driver tanking at the next pump commented that I was lucky as I had a pump the latch worked on. I told him I wasn’t lucky but I had a little device I could use to keep the trigger pulled. I also told him I had a spare I could sell him for a quid. He seemed most interested until I showed him the 10 pence piece I was using to hold the trigger open, he didn’t want to pay a £1 for my device then. I offered him the lesser model for 50 pence but again he wasn’t keen to pay 50 pence for a 2 pence piece either. There’s just no helping some folk.

I think you may be under pricing your product Coffee…

or is this bloke a mate of Jimbobs and this is a subtle plug

Coincidentally In the paper this very day some bloke:
Kevin’s got a grip on the problem

7:40am Friday 10th June 2011

AFTER 20 years of suffering, a former lorry driver has come up with a handy invention.

In 2009, Kevin De’Cort, of the Chase, Rayleigh, left his job as a haulage driver to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.

His idea was to solve the problems lorry drivers face when refuelling their engines and came up with the Fuelgrip. This holds the pump trigger and handle while filling up a vehicle to stop the driver getting handcramps.

It went on sale early this year and has already been snapped up by thousands of drivers.

Mr De’Cort said: “We started selling it in January and they have been going like hotcakes.

“We had a stall at a truck festival in Peterborough and sold thousands. A lot of drivers I’ve spoken to have said they love it.”

The grip is made out of plastic and is small enough to fit into a vehicle’s fuel cap. It costs £2.99.

Why would anyone want to pay £2.99 for a device when a 10p or 2p piece does the job, and you are pretty much always going to have one of them in your pocket.

[billybigrig]

Coffee:
Why would anyone want to pay £2.99 for a device when a 10p or 2p piece does the job, and you are pretty much always going to have one of them in your pocket.

Well we now know that you do carry cash, it’s just getting you to part with it due to your genetics

[wheel_nut]

The grip is made out of plastic and is small enough to fit into a vehicle’s fuel cap. It costs £2.99.

So the clip is stored in the filler neck and obviously gets covered in diesel, so then they hang it on the nozzle trigger and the next bloke to use the pump gets his hands covered with stinking diesel

Much easier to carry a coin in your pocket.

[denis_f]

Wheel Nut:

The grip is made out of plastic and is small enough to fit into a vehicle’s fuel cap. It costs £2.99.

So the clip is stored in the filler neck and obviously gets covered in diesel, so then they hang it on the nozzle trigger and the next bloke to use the pump gets his hands covered with stinking diesel

Much easier to carry a coin in your pocket.

nah ! one of these is easier

[orys]

Ok, and now something completely different.

The self service pumps (pay @ pump) are growing to be more and more popular in UK, especially on Shell (we use mostly shell recently). Why on Earth you can’t use your shell card to pay @ pump if you can do it everywhere around Europe?

[switchlogic]

orys:
Ok, and now something completely different.

The self service pumps (pay @ pump) are growing to be more and more popular in UK, especially on Shell (we use mostly shell recently). Why on Earth you can’t use your shell card to pay @ pump if you can do it everywhere around Europe?

Do you never stop moaning about how things are in the UK? Honestly you really do yourself no favours.

[orys]

switchlogic:
Do you never stop moaning about how things are in the UK? Honestly you really do yourself no favours.

If you read my other posts you will find that not only I stop, but I also like many things here.

Now my question: Are you able to accept that there are some fields where UK is not as good as other countries?

[switchlogic]

orys:

switchlogic:
Do you never stop moaning about how things are in the UK? Honestly you really do yourself no favours.

If you read my other posts you will find that not only I stop, but I also like many things here.

Now my question: Are you able to accept that there are some fields where UK is not as good as other countries?

Yes but my point was the fact you often moaning about the UK just gives ammunition to the small minded people who think your taking our jobs and just want a reason to have a go at you. Maybe you should ease back a bit.

Having traveled extensively around Europe I can confidently say we are all pretty much equal. Countries do some things better some things worse but it all pretty much levels out. We have crap services but better supermarkets that are open longer than most of Europe for instance.