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Global product support from MechTronic

...and professional distribution. “It can help monitor fuel deliveries by the minute, truck by truck, driver by driver and compartment by compartment; thus, loaded quantity will always match delivered quantities.”...
UKIFDA announces final shortlist for EXPO 2024 Awards

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Deadline for UKIFDA EXPO 2024 Award entries imminent

...prestigious Driver of the Year Award, said: “The search is on! It’s time to find the industry’s best tanker drivers across the UK and Ireland whose inspirational stories motivate the...

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Putting the Petroleum Driver Passport into practice

...position to begin driver training in January 2014. By implementing PDP, the industry can have confidence that drivers have been trained to a consistently high, externally verified standard in all...
Has the first year in business as a fuel distributor gone to plan for Bedford Fuels Ltd?

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Bedford Fuels: fuel distribution one year on

...summer, as did the totally unpredictable market, with the end of the summer bringing with it a dry harvest, the cost-of-living crisis and more product shortages. Despite all this, we...
In our July issue ‘Day in the Life’ we speak with Dave Willcox, tanker driver at the WP Group and winner of the UKIFDA driver of the year award, to discover how he spends a typical day.

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A Day in the Life… Dave Willcox

...driver at the WP Group and winner of the UKIFDA driver of the year award, to discover how he spends a typical day. MY ALARM GOES OFF AT… 03.15am! THE...

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Driver training – name change

...at customers’ premises subject to the SQA. Driver CPC, Petroleum Driver Passport, Full PDP and with PDP drivers required to attend annual classroom training and practical assessments to maintain the...

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Phillips 66 thanks its customers’ drivers

The Humber refinery – Phillips 66 hopes to run similar events at its other terminals in the future In late August, 40 haulier drivers and scheduling staff attended a Drivers’...

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Training standard welcomed

...for the training and assessment of petroleum tanker drivers has been the first priority of the UK Downstream Oil Distribution Forum which has introduced a driver safety passport. Re-established last...

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UK Fuels signs JET deal

...the fuel usage of individual drivers as well as the entire fleet. Online reporting removes the need for drivers to retain all fuel receipts whilst the e-Route journey planner software...

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Greenergy puts safety first

Greenergy is installing new equipment at its supply locations to improve driver safety when filling road tankers. The initiative, instigated following a safety walk involving driver and shop steward Dean...

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FPS tanker driver of the year named

...has taken the title of 2016 FPS Driver of the Year “Ian Ross was one of seven finalists shortlisted from one of the largest number of applicants we’ve ever received...

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Investing in the future

...number of multi-skilled drivers who work across various areas of the business. Depending on customer requirements, drivers will move from areas such as powder to gas or chemicals to fuels...

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Rewarding your drivers

Last year’s winner – Ian Coles of Butler Fuels The search is now on for the best tanker driver with entries for the 2013 Driver of the Year award invited...