We have a shared drive with our next door neighbours.

They have oil central heating and get fuel deliveries.

However, although our neighbours have asked the fuel supplier not to take their tanker up the drive, the fuel supplier still does. The drivers have this instruction on their delivery tickets.

The issue is that on a previous delivery the tanker broke and went through drain area resulting in none of us being able to get cars out the drive due to the be hole. The drive is now cracked, I presume due to the tanker weight.

Tanker driver this morning insisted his hose was too short to reach from the road side.

Our neighbour will happily engage with the fuel supplier, however I think we’re now at the point of having to point out the damage again and get the fuel co to fix the drive.

However, how long is typical hose on these trucks? From road to tank must be 40m in total with corners, etc. 3 axle tanker with lifting rear axle.

Parking on the drive to tank is about 15m max.

Thanks.

I’ve had deliveries that have asked if I’d like a small tanker when ordering or just the regular tanker.
Hose lengths are around 35-40 metres judging by the length of our drive and where the wagon can get to.

30m

The problem seems to be your neighbour has put their fuel tank in the wrong place. 🙂 And that you have a drive that can’t be driven on.

Your neighbour can maybe shop around a few different fuel suppliers, some might have longer hoses than other.

The alternative is they come up with their own solution such as an intermediate tank – stick a IBC nearer the road, get fuel delivered to that and come up with their own arrangements to pump it the rest of the way.

They could try asking for delivery in the smaller 2 axle tankers which are designed to get to more difficult places. They will be lighter and may have a longer hose. How about asking for last delivery so that the tanker is a light as possible? Also worth getting some thick wooden posts or similar to put over the drain area to spread the load either side of the drain

Thanks all.

The drive quality is down to the house builders. I presume that there is some form of minimum standard and load bearing capability?

The load bearing capability was not an issue until the first 6 wheel fully laden tanker reversed up last year and dropped into the large hole after it broke a reinforced concrete drain-thingy cover. The fuel supplier quickly came out and in a few days got the cover replaced with a reinforced metal one.

Subsequent to this our neighbour has advised fuel supplier that tankers cannot use the drive. However, although this instruction has been on each drivers delivery documentation, each subdequent driver has failed to notice it…..

Our neighbour is an ex army NCO and has got the fuel company coming round later today to survey the damage and no doubt they will be tasked to rectify. However, a call round to see if any supplier can deliver in smaller, lighter tankers I sense will also be on the cards.

However, the root cause is potentially the drive being thinner than ideal plus the siting of the fuel tank. It was put in by our previous neighbour’s brother in law and was situated where it is to allow shortest possible route to their heating boiler.

Wtf has him being ex army got to do with anything ? Get them to drop to the floor and give him 20 ?

Good luck oily

Wtf has him being ex army got to do with anything ?

The colour of the poppy he’ll be wearing?

39.9999m

His oil tank is in the wrong place you need a Feng Shui expert in.

Similar problem for me but our supplier has something like this http://www.prestonfuels.com/smalltankers.aspx – that gets them right up to the tank.

Only issue with a smaller tanker is that sometimes it’ll cost you more as the vehicle is able to do less deliveries per load.

And our tank means a good 25m of hose is needed, but never been a problem.

they can come with longer hoses .

HOW ever youll pay for it.

we had a client whos oil tank was situated round the back of his house as far from his drive as you could get but close to his pool boilers…..it was about 50m from the access point through the gardens and round all sorts of shit. He had it put there as he was fed up of getting his oil stolen while at his other townhouse during the week.

But just that statement shows that he didnt have any issue paying for an extra length of hose to be run – and the oil delivery go were there on a monthly basis so probably didnt care to much about the hassle.

regular joe with his 1 or 2 deliverys a year isnt going to get that treatment easily BUT it can be done.

Crikey ours has to run the hose through our house and half way down the garden and never had a problem with length, he’s even careful to not leave marks.

Thanks all.

Unfitgeezer, wtf?

Task delivery focused and likes to get issues fixed quickly.

Transpires that said tanker does have sufficient hose length but the driver decided to go for the quicker and easier option….