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Old 11th March 2007, 11:43 PM
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Small fleet setup

Hi everyone,

I'm starting to get my head around the possibility of converting our 4 Ford Transit vans to B100. They range from 1999, up to brand new 2006 TDCi.

Major concerns for me are:
-Must be economically competitive.
-Must be convenient to refuel.

So that boils down to supply. Our operation is based in Melbourne CBD, and we don't really have a "depot" as such. So I'm unsure how to go about keeping enough fuel around. I'm about to go through fuel consumption calculations this week, but I we are using roughly 80-90L per van per week, so would need something like 350-400L a week to keep us away from the dino-servos.
While the servo in Boronia seems to be good - it's basically too far to get to as regularly as we require (happily the price seems to be the same as regular dino though)

I haven't yet spoken to FINA in Thomastown.

Does anyone have suggestions for how to go about obtaining and storing 400L+ of B100 for regular pumping?
We have the vans, and the manpower to easily move 200L drums to someone's garage/yard, but would that be legal, or even feasible?

Is there a tanker service in Melbourne for delivery of maybe 1000L? At what point could I hope to obtain any kind of volume discount?

I've been looking for an opportunity to run biodiesel for several years, and I'm optimistic this is it!
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