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Distributor diaries June 2024

...they operate. Craig said: “As a business, we’ve long supported Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance but that has mainly been through displaying their logo on the back of our tankers...
Driver training DFDF

Insight

Driver training: starting out on the right foot

...designed to ensure that all tanker drivers in the UK are trained and assessed to a consistent standard in loading, transporting and offloading petroleum fuel products from road tankers. Ten...

Interview

Rationalisation in Irish oil distribution

...state of the market is primarily one of over supply, both in terms of the excessive number of small operators with tankers, and the number of larger distributors acting as...
Portland Report August

Market Report

Prices and predictions: how are we faring?

...the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have decreased and many shippers are now re-routing their tankers around the Cape of Good Hope anyway, so that any extra freight...

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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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‘A valuable addition’ for Rix Petroleum

...the company’s network. “There is a lot of synergy between Wynnstay Fuels, which runs a fleet of 8 tankers, and Rix Petroleum in terms of values and commitment to customer...

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A fleet of poppies

...village of Lower Peover, an NWF Fuels tanker was passing by As the centenary of Armistice Day approached, Fuel Oil News was pleased to see photographs of tankers with large...

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Isle of Wight Fuels to close its doors

...small tankers across the Solent on passenger ferries. “We should not forget the loss of these jobs and its impacts on families. It is a skilled job requiring lots of...

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FPS restructures driver CPC

...CPC course to deal with all the issues that drivers of fuel tankers have to consider day in and day out, as well as equipping them with more generalised HGV...

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Suttons’ trucks lead the way

(l-r) Michael Cundy, Suttons Tankers managing director; John Sutton, CEO, Suttons Group and Robert Sutton, IT director   Matthew Power Photography Ahead of the recent opening of the new Mersey...

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FTA and Unite respond to Operation Yellowhammer

...about, proposing to bring in troops to drive tankers which is entirely unnecessary but is not prepared to act to preserve the UK’s oil refineries, which are of crucial importance.”...