Fuel theft is on the rise.

[Milzy]

Fuel Thefts Soar as Thousands Drive Off Without Paying at Forecourts. In France you have to pay first. Many have false plates now so nobody cares.
Stations are moaning about losing money but don’t seem willing to install bank payment machines at the pumps.

 

[Deleted member 159]

Fuel Thefts Soar as Thousands Drive Off Without Paying at Forecourts. In France you have to pay first. Many have false plates now so nobody cares.
Stations are moaning about losing money but don’t seem willing to install bank payment machines at the pumps.

Probably most are franchised and the petro chemicals control the specifications of the pumps. Tesco when paying via card, you need to install your payment first. Unfortunately they still have pay at kiosk too.

What is very common, and I only found out recently, is quality oil being stolen from the likes of Halfords. I had to ring around a few stores to get the oil. Its now being kept in the back store room in certain towns and cities.

It will quickly change if the thieving bastards carry on. Make people come in to pre pay at the kiosk. That would work

 

[BoldonLad]

Fuel Thefts Soar as Thousands Drive Off Without Paying at Forecourts. In France you have to pay first. Many have false plates now so nobody cares.
Stations are moaning about losing money but don’t seem willing to install bank payment machines at the pumps.

Our local ASDA has touch card readers at pump. Max spend £99 worth of fuel.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Shoplifting has also seen significant growth recently across the board. I wonder why?

 

[Moodyman]

Pay at pump will not get the punter into the shop, which is where garages make most of their money.

 

[Deleted member 159]

Pay at pump will not get the punter into the shop, which is where garages make most of their money.

only authorise fuel by forcing customers to go into shop first

 

[Milzy]

Pay at pump will not get the punter into the shop, which is where garages make most of their money.

The Asian guy on the news knew this but didn’t say it.

 

[Milzy]

only authorise fuel by forcing customers to go into shop first

Like France. We spent ages trying to find someone to turn pumps on on our drive through France trip. One lady was on the bakery, tills and petrol all at once. Maybe short staffed.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

I've seen a similar thing on Peppa Pig. Miss Rabbit does everything.

 

[Moodyman]

Like France. We spent ages trying to find someone to turn pumps on on our drive through France trip. One lady was on the bakery, tills and petrol all at once. Maybe short staffed.

I’ve had no such trouble on my French travels. Rock up to a bakery, order a baguette and a pastry and off I go.

When I ran out of fuel, I opened by gob and stuffed it. Them pedals don’t turn by themselves.

 

[Milzy]

I’ve had no such trouble on my French travels. Rock up to a bakery, order a baguette and a pastry and off I go.

When I ran out of fuel, I opened by gob and stuffed it. Them pedals don’t turn by themselves.

That was the early days of the TDF.

 

[cookiemonster]

Here in Hong Kong, fuel stations have people on the forecourts that will fill up your car/van for you. They take your card, put it into the card machine on the pump, and they do the filling up, the card gets charged and you get the card on receipt handed back to you.

 

[icowden]

Fuel Thefts Soar as Thousands Drive Off Without Paying at Forecourts. In France you have to pay first. Many have false plates now so nobody cares.
Stations are moaning about losing money but don’t seem willing to install bank payment machines at the pumps.

And this information comes from where exactly?

 

[Beebo]

All decisions about stopping thefts come with a cost benefit analysis.
If the garages really want to stop it they could. But it costs money and would either reduce profits or increase the cost for everyone.

 

[icowden]

The obvious way to stop the thefts is to introduce measures to increase uptakes of EVs. No fuel to steal.