MSE News: Petrol prices - New road signs will compare service station costs

tim9966

So it's back to have it use to be 15 years ago. The price use to be displayed on the bottom right corner of service signs but hasn't been updated for years.

kerri_gt

Caddyman wrote: »

In the almost 30 years I've been driving, I've put fuel in at a motorway service station just once and that was only because I had an issue with a car with a faulty fuel gauge. Incidentally, I live just two miles from the M1 and I use it everyday, the thought of filling up with fuel at any of the fuel stations along it doesn't even enter my head.

I cannot understand why people don't plan their journey before they go to take in fuel stations off of motorways if they really have to fill up. I always fill my tank before I leave home and I always manage to reach my destination on the same tank as I can achieve up to six hundred miles on a single tank which effectively allows me to drive almost anywhere in the UK without filling up at unbelieveably expensive motorway fuel stations. I wonder sometimes whether people genuinely have too much money and don't mind paying far more than they have to, I certainly wouldn't purposely pay anything up to 15 pence a litre more than I had to.

Clear motorway fuel pricing would be welcome, but so would a sign pointing people to the nearest cheapest fuel station off the motorway.

What would be more welcome would be service stations on motorways not being allowed to sell fuel at such hugely inflated prices and having to be comparable to local area prices.

I do understand the idea of planning for off motorway fill ups, but if I have an 8hr drive I don't necessarily want to add to it any more trying to find a local petrol station 2 miles off the motorway.

Iceweasel

You just need to speak to an owner-driver trucker.

Just about every motorway junction has a 'normal' filling station almost within sight.

It's definitely not difficult to find an alternative filling station.

Two or three minutes to get to it off the motorway adds little to a long journey and saves a few pounds.

I use my sat-nav to search for 'points of interest' -'fuel' and it's amazing how close I always seem to be to a Tesco, Asda or Sainsburys.

worried_jim

Caddyman wrote: »

In the almost 30 years I've been driving, I've put fuel in at a motorway service station just once and that was only because I had an issue with a car with a faulty fuel gauge. Incidentally, I live just two miles from the M1 and I use it everyday, the thought of filling up with fuel at any of the fuel stations along it doesn't even enter my head.

I cannot understand why people don't plan their journey before they go to take in fuel stations off of motorways if they really have to fill up. I always fill my tank before I leave home and I always manage to reach my destination on the same tank as I can achieve up to six hundred miles on a single tank which effectively allows me to drive almost anywhere in the UK without filling up at unbelieveably expensive motorway fuel stations. I wonder sometimes whether people genuinely have too much money and don't mind paying far more than they have to, I certainly wouldn't purposely pay anything up to 15 pence a litre more than I had to.

Clear motorway fuel pricing would be welcome, but so would a sign pointing people to the nearest cheapest fuel station off the motorway.

I agree, in 20 years of driving I have never filled up on a motorway.

Hectar

If you are using your smartphone as a GPS then I'd recommend the app 'Waze'. It's not only the best GPS app I've used, it handily provides petrol prices for all the stations nearby and on your route. It's available for both iPhone and Android and is free. No expensive government solutions required.

lemontart

harrys_dad wrote: »

I never ever ever fill up on the motorway. There are supermarkets everywhere close to motorways with much cheaper fuel, for example on the M5 I use Asda at junction2, on the M6 Sainburys at junction 29.

This will do little to lower fuel costs on the motorway, especially as there are only 2 or 3 main firms like MOTO and Welcome Break who run the services.

It is just a cynical attempt by the current government to try to be seen to be doing something whilst actually achieving nothing.

m6 jnc 2 Morrisons and tescos around 2 miles from junc into Binley as well. A14 Tescos jnc 9 and as morrisons garage around 1 mile jnc 8

Herzlos

Iceweasel wrote: »

You just need to speak to an owner-driver trucker.

Just about every motorway junction has a 'normal' filling station almost within sight.

It's definitely not difficult to find an alternative filling station.

Two or three minutes to get to it off the motorway adds little to a long journey and saves a few pounds.

I use my sat-nav to search for 'points of interest' -'fuel' and it's amazing how close I always seem to be to a Tesco, Asda or Sainsburys.

For an owner-driver trucker who could easily be buying 400+ litres of fuel the difference could be significant (£60+), but for someone buying <20 litres it's really not worth the hassle (<£3).

agrinnall

Herzlos wrote: »

For an owner-driver trucker who could easily be buying 400+ litres of fuel the difference could be significant (£60+), but for someone buying <20 litres it's really not worth the hassle (<£3).

Please send everyone on this thread the £3 that means so little to you that you won't miss it .

Caddyman

Herzlos wrote: »

For an owner-driver trucker who could easily be buying 400+ litres of fuel the difference could be significant (£60+), but for someone buying <20 litres it's really not worth the hassle (<£3).

Can't fault you, if you want to pay that extra 3 quid, good on ya! but that 3 quid is a meal deal at most of the supermarkets for 5 minutes of my time coming off the motorway. Personally, sticking any money in the pockets of the organisations that operate these motorway service stations is something I won't entertain.

zappahey

Herzlos wrote: »

For an owner-driver trucker who could easily be buying 400+ litres of fuel the difference could be significant (£60+), but for someone buying <20 litres it's really not worth the hassle (<£3).

Why would you buy <20 litres of fuel on a motorway run?