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Filled the car up this morning and there was two guys doing fuel pump accuracy checks, first time in 18 years of driving I have ever seen it done.
Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
They probably didn't choose to do it at that time, they probably had several places to visit and check throughout the day, some filling station is going to get checked at a busy time.
Oddly though I too have not seen many of these fellahs recently, I used to see them regularly. Perhaps pumps are more reliable or less easy to tamper with now.
Oddly though I too have not seen many of these fellahs recently, I used to see them regularly. Perhaps pumps are more reliable or less easy to tamper with now.
Megaflow said:
Filled the car up this morning and there was two guys doing fuel pump accuracy checks, first time in 18 years of driving I have ever seen it done.
Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
I believe they will work for the local Trading Standards. Local Government employee's mean that a businesses busy time is not important, as opposed to their health and safety.Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
Megaflow said:
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
I don't work in h&s but I can completely see why they would do this.Health & Safety gone made!
Unlike a normal motorist, they probably spend all day standing on forecourts testing pumps. Therefore:
- cumulative risk of being run over by inattentive motorist is much higher
- cumulative risk of a spill of petrol onto skin or eyes is much higher
Therefore:
- high viz
- gloves
- eye protection.
Can't help with the hard hats though.
Doesn't the temperature affect the density of the fuel, so at 7:30 in the morning would the results read differently than at 7:30 in the evening, or does the underground tank have a way of regulating it?
I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
Big Fat Fatty said:
Doesn't the temperature affect the density of the fuel, so at 7:30 in the morning would the results read differently than at 7:30 in the evening, or does the underground tank have a way of regulating it?
I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
Interesting, was it not mentioned on here that as the temp drops, the fuel shrinks, or whatever, and you effectively get more fuel for your money?I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
Very possibly, utter utter tosh though.
Big Fat Fatty said:
Doesn't the temperature affect the density of the fuel, so at 7:30 in the morning would the results read differently than at 7:30 in the evening, or does the underground tank have a way of regulating it?
I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
The mass of fuel - and that it is underground - the difference will be negligible.I was told a long time ago and have always done it since that filling up early in the morning will get you more fuel for the money, is it nonsense?
I dont blame them for wearing all the highviz stuff they can get their hands on. If you'd seen some of the tossers come screaming onto my forecourt, tyres locked up, you'd want to wear a suit of armour to do that job.
And, no. I don't see them very often on my forecourt. About once a year or after any pump maintenance, when the anti-tamper seals will need to be resealed before we can use the pump again.
And, no. I don't see them very often on my forecourt. About once a year or after any pump maintenance, when the anti-tamper seals will need to be resealed before we can use the pump again.
ks.ApexJimi said:
There's a lot of myth and misinformation surrounding the HSE. They have actually went to lengths in the past to debunk the myths associated with them.
There used to be (not looked in a while) a page on their website listing made up HSE rules that were nothing to do with them.Corpulent Tosser said:
They probably didn't choose to do it at that time, they probably had several places to visit and check throughout the day, some filling station is going to get checked at a busy time.
Oddly though I too have not seen many of these fellahs recently, I used to see them regularly. Perhaps pumps are more reliable or less easy to tamper with now.
Fair comment. I hadn't thought that might have been the first of the day. I was too busy thinking that was the first time I had seen them and was all the PPE really necessary.Oddly though I too have not seen many of these fellahs recently, I used to see them regularly. Perhaps pumps are more reliable or less easy to tamper with now.
Pork said:
I used to do these 'pump tests' all the time for my employer when at Uni. Pain in the bum, but was pleasantly surprised at how accurate the pumps were. Very, very rare to have one that was outside of the very tight tollerances.
What tolerences are we talking about? - I always thought some petrol stations in london were nobbling a bit of the old fuel delievery.. 
Megaflow said:
Filled the car up this morning and there was two guys doing fuel pump accuracy checks, first time in 18 years of driving I have ever seen it done.
Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
Sainsburys, Peterborough? If not then they were there today complete with cones and Hi-vis too!Two thoughts occured:
1) Why would you choose to do it at 7.30am and close off 4 pumps at what is likely to be one of the busiest times of the day.
2) Why when everybody else was filling their car in just the usual work attire, do they feel the need to wear; gloves, high viz, safety glasses and hard hats.
Health & Safety gone made!
Cool story, etc...
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