Dipping Done Right
The humble dip stick is still the most important measuring instrument on most independent sites, and the most abused. We analyse thousands of tanks a month, and when a site’s results come back noisy, the cause is almost never underground. It’s the daily routine. Here’s what a good one looks like. Same time, every day. […]
Is It a Leak Or a Dodgy Gauge?
A Queensland service station operator was ready to call the police. Every second fuel delivery was landing 200 to 400 litres short, the pattern was too regular to ignore, and the obvious suspect was the tanker driver. The data said otherwise. Theft is rarely that tidy: same shortfall, same size deliveries, like clockwork. When the […]
What a SIRA Report Actually Tells You
Every month a SIRA report lands in your inbox, and if you’re like most operators you read one line of it: Pass. Good. Delete. Here’s what the rest of it is telling you, in plain English. The daily variance. For each tank, each day, the report reconciles what should be in the tank (yesterday’s dip, […]
Big-brand tools, independent budgets
Walk into any major’s head office and you’ll find a wetstock team with dashboards, analysts and alerts watching every tank in the network. Walk into an independent servo and you’ll usually find the owner doing the same job at 9pm with a dip stick, a spreadsheet and a headache. The fuel in the ground is […]
Fuel loss is not always obvious: the five ways litres disappear
Ask most operators how fuel goes missing and they’ll say leaks or theft. Both are real. But after reconciling thousands of tanks every month, we can tell you they’re only two of five causes, and each one leaves a different fingerprint in your data. 1. Leaks. The one everyone fears, and the one the regulations […]