Anyone using the Keyfuels fuel card
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My trusty use anywhere fuel has been replaced with this tat due to money saving i guess, no more points for shell tesco etc as this card is only valid at certain stations like texaco esso or other indys, what a nightmare, anyone else lumberd with this? Must be the result of some cost saving im sure, cheaper fuel perhaps
airportparking said:
My trusty use anywhere fuel has been replaced with this tat due to money saving i guess, no more points for shell tesco etc as this card is only valid at certain stations like texaco esso or other indys, what a nightmare, anyone else lumberd with this? Must be the result of some cost saving im sure, cheaper fuel perhaps
The fuel is bunkered so you get it a bit cheaper but to be honest it's not worth the hassle. I've used Keyfuels (C H Jones), Red Fuels and numerous others in the past and the prices they give you some weeks are higher than what you'd pay at the pump at your local garage once you remove the VAT element! It became a game of playing them off against each so that they'd reduce your ppl by 1p just so that you'd use their card instead of the other. In the end I binned them all off and just used one of my cashback credit cards as it worked out cheaper than what they could offer. Unless you're buying hundreds of thousands of litres every week the savings aren't worth it.Last time I used a Keyfuels card (some years ago now, admittedly) the network was garbage. They used to have a really good network in their prime and many of the motorway service stations were part of the network but mid to late 2000s it went rapidly downhill and you had to drive quite far off your route to find a garage that took them (not good in an artic). I remember the A1 coverage being particularly bad. Before Colsterworth got pumps installed the only place that took them was some unmanned site out in the sticks at the back of Grantham somewhere.
dowahdiddyman said:
Like most haulage companies we use keyfuels, they are fine until you go to more remote parts of the uk.
Also we had an e-mail through telling us that if we used it at any participating Tossco stations pump price plus a 10% admin fee was paid.
That sentence does not compute. If it's a "participating station" then the pump price is irrelevant. That's how bunkered fuel purchase works.Also we had an e-mail through telling us that if we used it at any participating Tossco stations pump price plus a 10% admin fee was paid.
Hmm, so that's why I was told not to use Tesco.
I normally drive with a Keyfuels and a BP card. A point of note is that you can now use Keyfuels in BP garages. Whether that is all of them, I don't know, but I have had occasion to use it at Leigh Delamare, Michealwood plus a few other motorway services.
I normally drive with a Keyfuels and a BP card. A point of note is that you can now use Keyfuels in BP garages. Whether that is all of them, I don't know, but I have had occasion to use it at Leigh Delamare, Michealwood plus a few other motorway services.
Our stupid accounts woman chose keyfuels when she was asked to get Fuel Cards for our small fleet of managers Cars, stupidest mistake ever, we looked a right set of pratts trying to fill up a BMW in the lorry parks at service stations.
The only place I could fill up with it local to me was the services on the A1, the fuel station is split into two halves, Trucks one side, cars the other, they will only let you use the card on the truck side, even when it's the same till!, but there are no small pumps on the that side just the high speed large bore ones for the trucks.
The frustration lasted about 4 months until she finally realised we were paying more with the card than we would be on the forecourts!.
The only place I could fill up with it local to me was the services on the A1, the fuel station is split into two halves, Trucks one side, cars the other, they will only let you use the card on the truck side, even when it's the same till!, but there are no small pumps on the that side just the high speed large bore ones for the trucks.
The frustration lasted about 4 months until she finally realised we were paying more with the card than we would be on the forecourts!.
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