fuel cards
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CR0X

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1,863 posts

230 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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what the general concensus on fuel cards from a business point of view?

We have six cars doing 20K p.a. each so reckon it is probably worth it if we can save 10p a litre, which appears if we can ...

Any companies worth looking at?

flyingjase

3,095 posts

262 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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I've got one with Arval - we only have a small fleet (3 cars) and got it for the convenience of not having to claim petrol back each month rather than cost savings.

Arval have always provided a good service and the account was easy to set up, it's all itemised by registration number and can include mileage if you want (we don't bother) and comes out by DD once a month - perfect. Also they claim to be accepted in 95% of all petrol stations - can't confirm that as I've never found a station that hasn't accepted it.

KingRichard

10,146 posts

263 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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flyingjase said:
I've got one with Arval - we only have a small fleet (3 cars) and got it for the convenience of not having to claim petrol back each month rather than cost savings.

Arval have always provided a good service and the account was easy to set up, it's all itemised by registration number and can include mileage if you want (we don't bother) and comes out by DD once a month - perfect. Also they claim to be accepted in 95% of all petrol stations - can't confirm that as I've never found a station that hasn't accepted it.
Another vote for arval here. Got a fleet of nearly 20 vehicles on these cards. Don't be fooled by other cards claiming to get you fuel for XX% less - ask for a list of local filling stations that accept it. All of ours were at a distance that would negate the saving!

No discounts with arval but mega convenient and you get notified of suspicious use etc. I got a phonecall the other day when I filled up the Sharan, Shogun and the Jag on the same day on my personal card (No attached reg).

You can monitor pretty much everything via the reports cool

530dTPhil

1,421 posts

249 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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Saving 10p per litre is wildly optimistic! If you can save a couple of pence a litre you will be doing well. I run a fleet of 280 vehicles and use Arval; no discounts but no charge for the cards and they publish the cheapest ten sites around any postcode on their website every Monday. As a multisite operation we ensure that our branches have this information and then monitor fuel purchases each week from an electronic report form Arval. Arval are top for site availability and convenience.
One of our customers is The Fuelcard Company who claim that they can save us money; I am meeting with them in the next couple of weeks but remain to be convinced.

Timja

1,955 posts

240 months

Saturday 21st February 2009
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Fleet of 30 cars. Use Arval. Some other companies where you are restricted to using only Esso/Shell/BP etc will give you a small discount, but you with Arval you can fill up everywhere and you are likely to save more by being able to shop around (e.g. fill at supermarkets).

Depends on where your cars drive really. If only local and would be possible to only fill up at e.g. BP then may be worth looking at (although BP have the most expensive prices according to my National Arval reports!)

jamoor

14,506 posts

246 months

Monday 23rd February 2009
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Arval is best, we were with Abbey Fuels (texaco) but their prices went much higher than the local Sainsubrys!