50l per week £70 or £3300 per year, if he is on the £7 per hour with no chance or a pay rise then fair play to him.
Bloke at our place got caught after a few months of nicking about 20l a week. Got off lightly. Resign or be prosecuted. Pretty easy to guess which choice he took
Too many drivers are overly keen to report someone, thats none of their business, if you are squeaky clean, stay that way, if others are not, let them stay that way, so long as it doesnt intefere with your daily life, thats ok…by the way, just lost my job today, after a disciplinary, and another driver last week ( with 2 young kids and a new mortgage ) WHY…drivers cant deal with issues themselves, got to get involved, to grass someone up, what is this world coming to.
Many years ago, mate of mine (now sadly deceased) ran a small haulage company. Only five drivers, treated all of them as well as he could. Struggled to get the fuel consumption on his trucks close to what it should have been. Tried various fuel economy measures (Energy tyres etc), no real improvement.
Got his dad in, asked him to take a look at the figures to make sure he wasn’t doing the calculations wrong.
His dad walked around the yard, came back in and said: "I know why your fuel figures are so bad.’
Five drivers’ cars parked in a row. All of them diesel. All of them with dirty fuel stains around the filler caps.
My mate sold up and opened a motorcycle shop.
Five redundant drivers.
truckyboy:
Too many drivers are overly keen to report someone, thats none of their business, if you are squeaky clean, stay that way, if others are not, let them stay that way, so long as it doesnt intefere with your daily life, thats ok…by the way, just lost my job today, after a disciplinary, and another driver last week ( with 2 young kids and a new mortgage ) WHY…drivers cant deal with issues themselves, got to get involved, to grass someone up, what is this world coming to.
Sorry to hear about you and the other bloke. 
I don’t understand people who can’t keep their noses out of other people’s business. If it doesn’t affect you and nobody is in imminent danger, why get involved?
GasGas:
Many years ago, mate of mine (now sadly deceased) ran a small haulage company. Only five drivers, treated all of them as well as he could. Struggled to get the fuel consumption on his trucks close to what it should have been. Tried various fuel economy measures (Energy tyres etc), no real improvement.Got his dad in, asked him to take a look at the figures to make sure he wasn’t doing the calculations wrong.
His dad walked around the yard, came back in and said: "I know why your fuel figures are so bad.’
Five drivers’ cars parked in a row. All of them diesel. All of them with dirty fuel stains around the filler caps.
My mate sold up and opened a motorcycle shop.
Five redundant drivers.
My old boss used to allow the drivers to fill up once a month, but you always get someone taking the ■■■■ and spoiling it for everyone.
Couldn’t grab from the OP if this was in a public filling station or in the yard.
If its was a filling station I would overlook it as its none of my business and the driver could have valid reasons.
If it was in the yard I would ask the driver why he was doing it.
However as highlighted if I was working for a small family business and it was obviously theft I would shop him and make him fully aware it was me who dobbed him in.
A large company I may think its none of my business but just grab a photo of it just in case.
mac12:
50l per week £70 or £3300 per year, if he is on the £7 per hour with no chance or a pay rise then fair play to him.
What an attitude it is theft no matter how you look at it. And the £7 pre hour well there is a lot o folk who have no job would like the chance to earn that. And yes he should be reported. Eddie.
My old boss used to let me fill the car up. My wife used to meet me and we would fill both the car and the lorry at the same time. The boss was kind enough to knock the VAT off. Then one day the petrol station boss “who wasn’t there most of the time” went off on one in front of a whole load of people and phoned my boss. None of our lorries ever filled up there again.
orys:
I was refused once when I filled up the plastic container with diesel, they told me that they are going to call my company and were generally very unpolite to me, threateining me with the police, calling me a Polish thief etc.Soon they changed the note, when they were told by my boss that I was ordered to do it, as the fuel was going to the forklift in our yard…
…you were stealing Mr Sheen? Ah right I see now, silly me
None of your business, just concentrate on your own job. He might not have been a thief, his boss might be the thief and the driver is just paying himself what he is owed but even if he is stealing then its still none of your business until someone else makes it your business.
I got grassed up for wearing flip flops last week 
pathetic.
Nobody is grassing anybody up. I was saying what i saw.If 100 drivers did the same all week that is £210,000 per year in missing fuel.
orys:
I was refused once when I filled up the plastic container with diesel, they told me that they are going to call my company and were generally very unpolite to me, threateining me with the police, calling me a Polish thief etc.Soon they changed the note, when they were told by my boss that I was ordered to do it, as the fuel was going to the forklift in our yard…
Wouldn’t the forklift use cheaper red diesel?
There was the tank for it in the yard, but had no safety inspection or something…
often get funny looks when i’m filling up my 25 litre drum, someone phoned our company once having watched me do it, gaffer said you are very observant, but did you not also notice the forklift hanging on the back of the trailer??!!
I was filling up next to a Girteka fridge in lithuania once. he pulled up to the pumps, and just sat there waiting until a vw estate turned up with a boot full of canisters. so they filled up the lorry and then the canisters in the vw, about 20 of them. I had some trobule with the pump, so finished after them, went to the till and there was one Girteka driver, one vw driver, looking pretty down and the guy at the till on the phone with girteka
I’d definitely let the gaffer know what’s up, theft is theft, no justification for it.
I bet the other kids at school loved you Toby !!!
We’ve got a lad at our place. Not sure if he’s stealing the derv or not, but he’s more than happy to burn it. Loaded in Leeds one night for a tip in Goole, 09:00 the following morning. Company policy is that we don’t load these short runs until the morning, but he loaded it anyways. Fancied a night out with a couple of ‘mates’ - down at the Stockyard. “Only 4 miles extra”, apparently.
The same guy refuses to use the M1 between the M18 and the M62, as “It’s quicker to shoot up the M18, up the A1, and across the M62”. Well, what can you tell a guy with over 30 years experience? He’ll happily tell you he knows it all.
More to the point, would I tell the boss about the excess mileage? Well, it’s absolutely nothing to do with me. I’m too busy doing my own job.
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We do not like it when the fuel is stolen from the tank at night when we sleep in lay bys.
They break the fuel cap.Or spike the tank.But the posts on here are supporting the driver stealing 50 litres from his boss and that is ok.
Would you employ the driver i saw.?It was in a large truckstop that is not manned on sundays and has cctv.
I had 400 litres stolen once.But that is ok.We have to give and take and share things like we did at school.
milodon:
I was filling up next to a Girteka fridge in lithuania once. he pulled up to the pumps, and just sat there waiting until a vw estate turned up with a boot full of canisters. so they filled up the lorry and then the canisters in the vw, about 20 of them. I had some trobule with the pump, so finished after them, went to the till and there was one Girteka driver, one vw driver, looking pretty down and the guy at the till on the phone with girtekaI’d definitely let the gaffer know what’s up, theft is theft, no justification for it.
You can often pick up fuel theft looking through the receipts. I was cleverly impressed that a bloke I worked with occasionally managed to get 500 litres of fuel into his lorry, it only had a 400 litre tank 