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Shell fuel card article
The Shell Euroshell fuel card has proved a popular choice amongst haulage contractors, logistics companies and other businesses with a mobile workforce for many years. Since their first fuel card was introduced over fifty years ago, business owners and managers have taken full advantage of the benefits the fuel card has to offer.
The simple fact is that fuel cards save both time and money, as well as offering a range of administrative and security features that cash purchases do not provide. For example, each fuel card is either attributed to an individual driver or to a specific vehicle. This means that in the event a fuel card is lost or stolen, it cannot be used by third party to purchase fuel or lubricants as as the user would have to either prove their identity or be in charge of the vehicle bearing the registration plate of the vehicle the fuel card is attributed to.
If you're managing a sizeable fleet and are still reliant on cash purchasing for your fuel, then chances are at the end of each week of month, either you or a member of staff are sorting out and adding up the costs of a myriad of fuel receipts. Not only would the totals of all these receipts have to be added up for your fleet's overall fuel expenditure for that period, but each driver would need the funds they spent on fuel purchases adding to their individual expense account.
By adopting the Euroshell fuel card for your drivers' fuel payments, you'll also be paying a little less than the pump prices which, although insignificant at price per litre, over the course of a year you could be making huge savings on fuel expenditure thanks to paying Platts prices instead of that stated on the fuel pump.
Shell's Euroshell fuel card enables easy and effective fuel management through bespoke reporting and detailed invoicing. This data is available twenty four hours a day throughout the year via a secure internet server where one can view data for each individual fuel card and each vehicle. This allows you to keep a close eye on how much is being spent by each driver, with the added benefit of miles per gallon (MPG) reports which can also assist in improving fuel economy.
Although users of the Euroshell fuel card are restricted to Shell garages only, each of the 2000+ Shell sites can easily be found using the forecourt finder via their smartphone or Blackberry. And being one of the largest fuel distributors in the UK, there are plenty of Shell garages up and down the country, so your drivers should never be too far from a Shell garage. We also offer a international Euroshell fuel card which can be used at some 20,000 forecourts throughout Europe.
If you want to find out if the Euroshell fuel card is the right fuel card for your company, contact us on 01633 677 677