scotstrucker:
i cant even repeat what my boss said about his fuel prices this week as all he did was swear n slam the office door
My sentiments exactly; budgeting the first half of the next financial year I have used £1.05ppl as that is where I am being told we will be… 
… and I use 50k litres a week!! 
Out and about on my travels this week it’s regular to see 111.9ltr at the supermarkets - that’s 95.23ltr ex vat!
Stan
Too many people talk but dont have any action… We should be more like the French fishermen.
scottishcruiser:
Too many people talk but dont have any action… We should be more like the French fishermen.
biggest problem the haulage industry has is they wont stick together because they dont trust each other, each one of them is scared the next one will steal there work so they wont park up for the week in protest, all the big players wont come out as they would be commiting commercial suicide because of there contracts which if they didnt service would lead to them being dragged through the court, all the o/d’s wont come out as they cant afford too the list could go on, the only way to make action work is by getting the public en mass to boycott buying fuel which will never ever happen
well it wont come down any less, thats for sure, and it will further increase on the 1st april by 2.5 p, no matter what oil companies are charging.
gonna be yet another tough yr.
Reckon most O/Ds will jack in , inc my brother.
Can we not import the cheaper fuel from Europe and avoid paying the ridiculous prices?
Probrably just a day-dream but if only the big players could send a few tankers across the water fill em up with cheap derv and bring em back thus bycotting the British fuel tax then maybe just maybe the price would go down
I’ll go back to lala land now 
lots of firms are introducing fuel escalators again to try and offset the hikes but customers wont pay it without a fight unless its written in the contract or told before they agree the job, its a tough old world out there and it only gonna get tougher
heres a link to a website stating all the fuel prices in europe, i presume itbe pump price drive-alive.co.uk/fuel_prices_europe.html it was last updated in early feb 2010 and france was charging more for derv than the uk
Grayham:
Can we not import the cheaper fuel from Europe and avoid paying the ridiculous prices?Probrably just a day-dream but if only the big players could send a few tankers across the water fill em up with cheap derv and bring em back thus bycotting the British fuel tax then maybe just maybe the price would go down
I’ll go back to lala land now
We’ve been doing that between NI and “The south” for maybe 20+ years or more!!! 
You will VERY rarely see an artic truck(quite a few 8 wheelers too) operating in NI without having 700L+ diesel tanks hanging on the side of her to be able to fill up “on the cheap” across the border every Fri/Sun Afternoon or Sat Morn. 
Even the big boys like Montgomery/McBurney/Mulgrew are all at it.
got told today that one one the services on the m6 is selling it for 1.27
my local garage is 1.18 ltr for derv and 1.15 for petrol
lee mat:
got told today that one one the services on the m6 is selling it for 1.27
you are corret albeit it may have been a different services, Toddy I think it is ?
really feel for you guys glad i packed in when i did .
My card price next week, 12.4.10 is 106.9 on euroshell FCC. and 105.5 BP Direct fuels. They say it is going to keep going up in the newspapers. It does make you wonder if there will be any profit left at all soon in the job.
FFS when will it end, heres my quotes ths week BWOC 101.11ppl Shell card 102.68ppl. Dieselextradearlink was over 1.05ppl, its becoming utter madness & I can hear them bleating how its because of BP’s disaster in The Gulf of Mexico already, what have you lot been quoted this week ?
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fly sheet:
FFS when will it end, heres my quotes ths week BWOC 101.11ppl Shell card 102.68ppl. Dieselextradearlink was over 1.05ppl, its becoming utter madness & I can hear them bleating how its because of BP’s disaster in The Gulf of Mexico already, what have you lot been quoted this week ?Fly [zb]Off sheet
I’ve got 101.35 from Smartdiesel,102.97 from Red and 105.06 Shell 
just to get an idea of which fuel card is giving the best deals when posting the ppl why dont you give a rough idea of how many litres you are buying aswell
I usually buy 400lts each fill, I was using cards supplied by Dieselink the pump price has been £1.19.9 both of them Shell Haydock & Barnsdale Bar sites now the bill has come through Dieselink have charged me over £1.05ppl less the VAT I’d have been better using a bank card & getting the points as they’ve stopped giving them on my Shell card now. Dieselink are charging £1 for an invoice too so thats the end of me using them lot in the future.
Fly sheet
lee mat:
just to get an idea of which fuel card is giving the best deals when posting the ppl why dont you give a rough idea of how many litres you are buying aswell
probably a good idea 
What prices have you got Lee Mat ?
at the mo pump price at the supermarket is working out cheaper for me plus you get the points pretty much has always has worked out cheaper drawing anywhere between 500 to 1200 litres a week next week bwoc has given me 105.7 but im using alot less than i was from them i also go where you get the freebies the coffee free pasty anything to get something back