Ways to gauge oil in tank

highrisklowreturn

1) placing a band around the hose to restrict flow after measurement;

2) refeeding oil back to tank via a separate return pipe;

3) pre-printing invoices before giving them to the customer, then hosing less than the said amount into tank;

4) prematurely taking hand off nozzle gun before full delivery;



etc etc etc.

muckybutt

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

1) placing a band around the hose to restrict flow after measurement;

2) refeeding oil back to tank via a separate return pipe;

3) pre-printing invoices before giving them to the customer, then hosing less than the said amount into tank;

4) prematurely taking hand off nozzle gun before full delivery;
etc etc etc.

Think you have had too much Guinness :rotfl:

1) Restricting flow after measurement ? the amount you get once its been measured will still be the same if its been restricted...its already been measured !

2) Can honestly say I have never seen two hoses being run two and from the tank to the tanker...do you have proof ?

3) Pre printing not going to say it doesnt happen - it might well do but again most tankers when we used to get oil delivered had the measurements at start and end of fill printed on the ticket so could not be fiddled.

4) Taking hand off filler nozzle. If you take hand off the filler then it stops the delivery, it will also stop the meter from going as well so you wont be getting short changed there either.

You are very deluded HR

greyteam1959

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

1) placing a band around the hose to restrict flow after measurement;

2) refeeding oil back to tank via a separate return pipe;

3) pre-printing invoices before giving them to the customer, then hosing less than the said amount into tank;

4) prematurely taking hand off nozzle gun before full delivery;



etc etc etc.

What a load of old cobblers !!!!!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

G_M

:rotfl::rotfl: You are seriously paranoid!

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

1) placing a band around the hose to restrict flow after measurement;
If you slow the flow by placing a band, then less fuel will flow and be measured. Do you drive? Have you ever used a self-service petrol station? If you reduce the pressure on the nozzle trigger, you reduce the flow (akin to placing a band round the hose) and.... the dials on the pump slow down a less fuel is recorded.

2) refeeding oil back to tank via a separate return pipe;
I have never seen two hoses. or heard of this happening.

3) pre-printing invoices before giving them to the customer, then hosing less than the said amount into tank;
Are you suggesting the tanker driver pumps the required amount into a 2nd tanker, prints the invoice, then delivers the fuel (a smaller amount) and uses the 1st invoice....? The invoices are time-stamped. Again, never heard of this and seriously doubt it happens.

4) prematurely taking hand off nozzle gun before full delivery;
If full delivery is not made (I assume you mean the 1000 litres you ordered) then the invoice will show.... 900 litres!

etc etc etc.

Not convinced by any of the above.

How about the etc etc?

highrisklowreturn

Well, I'm only quoting what I know, and also what I have been told by one of the largest fuel merchants in Northern Ireland, and through knowledge of people who took payments to not go public when an oil company was found to be employing several of those methods.

You need to ask yourself how oil companies stay going, when the wholesale price of oil is less than 5p a litre than the retail price they charge you. Throw in the vat, office expenses, insurances, wages, etc etc and ask how oil deliveries worth less than £20 per 900 litres could possibly cover outgoings.