Tankline Fuel Services. On-site bulk diesel across Perth, the Peel and the Avon— we don’t set the fuel price. We tell you what we charge on top of it.

The terminal gate price is the published wholesale price a fuel terminal charges at the gate on a given day. It is set by the refiner or importer, it moves daily with the international product price and the exchange rate, and it is public — you can look up the Kewdale gate price yourself.

So we don’t quote you a pump price. We quote what we charge to get it to you: cents per litre on top, plus the delivery charge. Your invoice shows the gate price for the day we loaded and our margin as its own line. That way a rise in the market is visible as a rise in the market, not as a quiet change in what we’re charging you — and when it falls, you get the fall.

$150 a drop. The truck, the driver, the licence and the meter cost the same whether we pump 500 litres or 5,000, so under a certain size the cents-per-litre doesn’t cover the run.

In practice it bites under about 2,000 litres of diesel. At 1,500 L the 9.5 c/L rate computes to $142.50, so the drop bills at the $150 minimum. At 2,000 L the 7.5 c/L rate computes to exactly $150.00 — the same number, but earned rather than floored, which is why the Drop above doesn’t call it a minimum at that point. AdBlue has the same $150 floor: at a flat 12 c/L the arithmetic crosses $150 at 1,250 litres, which isn’t one of the order steps — so on the Drop, 1,000 L of AdBlue bills the minimum and 1,500 L bills $180.

Metro, ordered before 2pm, usually next working day. Peel and Avon runs go on set days — typically two a week each way — so ordering a day earlier gets you a much better slot than ordering a day later.

If you’re on telemetry we generally don’t wait for you to order at all: the unit triggers at your set level and we schedule it into an existing run, which is the cheapest way for both of us. Genuine same-day is possible in the metro and we’ll tell you honestly on the phone whether it’s a yes.

$28 per tank per month. It’s a level and temperature sender on the tank with its own cellular link, reading every few hours and reporting to a dashboard you can see. You set the trigger level; when the tank hits it, an order is raised automatically and we fit it into the next run past you.

It is a genuine recurring charge, not a setup fee, so it appears on every state of the estimate above with the tank count next to it. You can turn it off at the end of any month and keep buying fuel from us — there’s no lock-in and no exit fee.

Often not, and it’s better to find out on a drawing than with a trailer across your gate. A 19 m semi needs roughly 7.4 m of swept path through a turn plus clearance either side, so an 8 m gate is not enough for it. A rigid sweeps about 6.4 m and turns into the same gate comfortably. The Drop above draws both against an 8 m gate, and yard layouts get checked against the off-street commercial vehicle standard, AS 2890.2.

The trade-off is honest: a rigid carries 10,000 litres, so a tight site takes more, smaller drops at a higher cents-per-litre band. That is usually still cheaper than widening a gate. We measure your access on the first visit and tell you which truck you get.

The ATO fuel tax credit scheme refunds part of the excise on fuel used in eligible business activities — heavy vehicles on public roads at one rate, off-road plant and equipment at another. It is worth real money if you burn diesel in machinery.

What we do: give you the litres, the dates, the delivery addresses and the dockets in a format that goes straight into your BAS working papers, and split litres by tank where you have separate on-road and off-road storage. What we don’t do is claim it for you. We’re a fuel carrier, not a registered tax agent, and the eligibility call — what plant, what proportion, which rate — is between you and your accountant.