servos out of fuel?

[Grega]

the local BP up the road from me shut their pumps off of the pulp when the price is cheap....i went today, price of ULP is cheap and wah-lah - no PULP available - all closed. so i ended up going somewhere else.

this is common practice you could almost set your watch by it

[flappist]

BP north of Nambour (parklands)has ultimate at 1.12/l, gympie and maryborough seem to have it too but BP nambour and the one on maroochydore rd are out.

[Dazza XLT]

This made me laugh today, spotted it this morning.


Someone can't count.

[Iggypoppin']

saw a report on ACA a while back about fuel, they tested some pumps with out of order signs on and they worked! BP and caltex both. I decided to try one so around September gave it a whirl, sure enough, fuel pumped through. I asked the attendant and he said they might have put the sign on the wrong pump. I shook my head n left. Any ideas as to why they'd do this? I live in Adelaide and so far no 98 shortage at all! No anything shortage as far as I seen

[The Don1]

Originally Posted by desGT

At BP I pass every morning here in Melb, fuel was 109.9. Why so high? Based on previous weeks it should be down to 101-102 mark on a Monday. Geelong Rd yesterday it was 101.9 (now there is an excuse for a drive!).

Dunno how they can justify the fuel prices like oil is like under $40 a barrel and they still wanna put it up! I think their greedy

[vanman_75]

Originally Posted by SLWXR6

saw a report on ACA a while back about fuel, they tested some pumps with out of order signs on and they worked! BP and caltex both. I decided to try one so around September gave it a whirl, sure enough, fuel pumped through. I asked the attendant and he said they might have put the sign on the wrong pump. I shook my head n left. Any ideas as to why they'd do this? I live in Adelaide and so far no 98 shortage at all! No anything shortage as far as I seen

only time i know is when they get low yes they will still have some there ,but run dry and they have to prime pumps ,condensation in lines etc

[Iggypoppin']

Originally Posted by The Don1

Dunno how they can justify the fuel prices like oil is like under $40 a barrel and they still wanna put it up! I think their greedy

Yep... Oil companies ARE greedy...why would they want to lose money when they don't have to.

[deesun]

Having worked in a servo for a few years there was always fuel left in the tank so as not to have to prime the pumps if they ran out. About 2-500ltrs to be on the safe side. Secondly pumps inour servo were not able to be turned off individually only in banks of two or three so if one of them were out you had to leave all them on with the sign on them. Thirdly although the operator is supposed to but they wont always look out to see the pump he is turning on. Hears a noise, touches a screen pump on.

[dom_105]

Originally Posted by deesun

Having worked in a servo for a few years there was always fuel left in the tank so as not to have to prime the pumps if they ran out. About 2-500ltrs to be on the safe side. Secondly pumps inour servo were not able to be turned off individually only in banks of two or three so if one of them were out you had to leave all them on with the sign on them. Thirdly although the operator is supposed to but they wont always look out to see the pump he is turning on. Hears a noise, touches a screen pump on.

I can back this up.

I wouldn't suggest for anyone to use a hose that was labelled out of order, unless they want the pump to suck up all the at the bottom of the servo's tank.

Think about it. That out of order sign could be on those hoses for any reason, if you use them I would dare say you would have a hard time getting any compensation from the service station if the fuel does damage to your car, even if it is the company's fault (bad batch of fuel, wrong fuel in the wrong tank, wrong grade in the wrong tank, or whatever).

Usually the decision to put out of order signs on the pumps, in the short term at least, is made by the store manager during the day and by the console operator after hours. Do you think they would be privy to this big scam that apparently is being conducted by those big bad oil companies. And if so, wouldn't have one of those disgruntled former store managers or console operators come out by now? They could write their own cheque and have Packer/Stokes/Murdoch sign it, it would be that big of a story.

[DA68ZA]

Originally Posted by XR-CHIEF

102.9? damn
the lowest BP 98 has been here was 110.9

i bought it at mudgeeraba bp for 104.9 just before xmas ...
When i told my dad he said no don't buy from him he's dear and im like dad i just drove from sydney and the last fill i paid 119.9 ...

[GS608]

Originally Posted by DA68ZA

i bought it at mudgeeraba bp for 104.9 just before xmas ...
When i told my dad he said no don't buy from him he's dear and im like dad i just drove from sydney and the last fill i paid 119.9 ...

was that for 98?
noticed the mobil in robina was out of 6000 yesterday, surely this shouldn't be happening now?

[NC1183]

I went to the Gold Coast for chrissy/new years, and on the way up, BP at Gundy had all their car pumps closed, the truck section was still operating, so we went around to the Caltex on by-pass and they had 91 and 95 so we filled up.

Once we got to the Goldy i didn't notice any of the supposed fuel shortage, the price was heaps lower then what I could get fuel in Moree. On the way home we stopped in Gundy for fuel again and this time Caltex had no 95 tired the BP and they had everything.

[The Don1]

Originally Posted by Dazza XL

This made me laugh today, spotted it this morning.


Someone can't count.

I bet they felt pretty silly when they realized their mistake after the public have seen it hehehe

[flappist]

There is still the odd 95 or 98 shortage. I filled with ultimate at maroochydore rd on Sunday @ $1.12, they were out of 95. Nambour (currie st) had 95 but was out of ultimate.

[FTE72]

Originally Posted by au3xr6

if there is a refinery breakdown supply will be restricted if it was a conspiracy the supply restriction would be nation wide (or do the just pick on whinging queenslanders) get real these things happen

From the start of November up until now, a couple of BP service stations around the area I live (Northside of Brisvegas) were running out for two or three days at a time (95/98 only) [B]WELL BEFORE THE FIRE AT THE CALTEX REFINERY IN HEMMANT,. [B]
And funnily enough, the two CALTEX service stations in the same area both had plenty of fuel.
The explanation for the BP"s being out of fuel was that "The pumps were tripping out the fuse box and might cause a fire if they are used" :I got this explanation at both the BP's.
But maybe the whinging Queenslanders like me made this happen.

[fiery]

Originally Posted by FTE72

From the start of November up until now, a couple of BP service stations around the area I live (Northside of Brisvegas) were running out for two or three days at a time (95/98 only) [B]WELL BEFORE THE FIRE AT THE CALTEX REFINERY IN HEMMANT,. [B]
And funnily enough, the two CALTEX service stations in the same area both had plenty of fuel.
The explanation for the BP"s being out of fuel was that "The pumps were tripping out the fuse box and might cause a fire if they are used" :I got this explanation at both the BP's.
But maybe the whinging Queenslanders like me made this happen.

Funny you say that the explanation was the tripping out at the fuse box, after the very first big storm we had on the north side that is exactly what was happening at my work. We did have a tech out on quite a few occasions but it would still go haywire after a few hours of operation. To the point when the tanker came to fill our tanks he apparently missed one completely as the read out he was getting said we were 3/4 full. Our read out within an hour of him going and the tech fixing things again was very very little in the tank. If we had operated those tanks people might have not been very happy with what pumped into their cars. I am not saying that water, mud, whatever might but the chance of having 'bad' fuel at the bottom of the tank is a possibility.

I just love those customers that come in all abusive because we have our out of order signs on pumps. Yes we put them on some pumps at night due to drive offs etc but we don't purposely shut pumps down that people will need (leave at least a few of each type of fuel available) unless there is a damn good reason. The other customers I have fun with is those that come in abusing us at the console for the prices.
Whilst I mainly work in the cafe section, I quite often end up helping on the console part.
If you have been one of those morons that abuse, you wouldn't forget my reply that is for sure :

[FTE72]

Originally Posted by fiery

Funny you say that the explanation was the tripping out at the fuse box, after the very first big storm we had on the north side that is exactly what was happening at my work. We did have a tech out on quite a few occasions but it would still go haywire after a few hours of operation. To the point when the tanker came to fill our tanks he apparently missed one completely as the read out he was getting said we were 3/4 full. Our read out within an hour of him going and the tech fixing things again was very very little in the tank. If we had operated those tanks people might have not been very happy with what pumped into their cars. I am not saying that water, mud, whatever might but the chance of having 'bad' fuel at the bottom of the tank is a possibility.

I just love those customers that come in all abusive because we have our out of order signs on pumps. Yes we put them on some pumps at night due to drive offs etc but we don't purposely shut pumps down that people will need (leave at least a few of each type of fuel available) unless there is a damn good reason. The other customers I have fun with is those that come in abusing us at the console for the prices.
Whilst I mainly work in the cafe section, I quite often end up helping on the console part.
If you have been one of those morons that abuse, you wouldn't forget my reply that is for sure :

Yeah I can understand that. I certainly would not abuse the staff at the servo, I just politely enquired as to why the servo was out of fuel for such long periods and so often.
I found their explanation amusing, as I have an electrical trade and know that there would be no danger of fire.
And also the fact that the same reason was given at both servo's. Coincidence? Perhaps.
You may work at one of the BP's I am talking about.

[fiery]

Originally Posted by FTE72

Yeah I can understand that. I certainly would not abuse the staff at the servo, I just politely enquired as to why the servo was out of fuel for such long periods and so often.
I found their explanation amusing, as I have an electrical trade and know that there would be no danger of fire.
And also the fact that the same reason was given at both servo's. Coincidence? Perhaps.
You may work at one of the BP's I am talking about.

Our instructions are that if there is an electrical fault we have to shut pumps down, if there is a huge storm we have to shut them down. I really don't know if there is a possibility of fire but policy is in place for this and it isn't worth us being sacked over for ignoring the policy.

I may well work at one of them, or could have done relief shifts there as have worked at quite a few of the stations on the North side.
The only BPs that don't follow BP COCO Policy are the privately owned ones, but there aren't really too many of them around anymore

Oh and I wasn't saying that you in particular might have been rude or abusive, but we do get quite a few that are.

[R0BD0G]

yeah we had no premium except at the Caltex On james st in Tbar yesterday.