The obvious benefit of having an on-site fuel tank is that your team doesn't have to travel anywhere else to refuel. After all, they consume expensive fuel just to get to the nearest gas station. So why not build your own gas station and reduce travel time when refueling your fleet?
If you fill up your fleet at consumer filling stations, you are at the mercy of fluctuations in consumer prices. These problems are solved when you take your fuel tank home. Become your own gas station and suddenly you have the opportunity to negotiate wholesale prices with your own fuel supplier. How much can you save per liter? How much could you save in wages over time? If you issue fuel cards, could you even eliminate the risk of fuel card cloning, fraud or misuse?
Good business is about saving effort so you can direct your energies in the most profitable direction. If you can automate a process, you should. If you can do something better or cheaper in-house, then you should do it. Having an on-site fuel tank can be a fantastic investment if you need to fill up frequently simply because it saves you the time and hassle of filling up elsewhere. It effectively turns your business premises into a home base, saving you and your team the extra hassle of sourcing fuel from busy outside suppliers.
Think about your current gas station. How clean is this fuel? What is its moisture content? How often is this tank checked and what measures are taken against diesel failures? If that gas station isn't working tomorrow or is at risk from contaminated fuel, how could that affect your fleet, schedules, and business? Bring your internal fuel storage with your own fuel tank and suddenly you have all these considerations under your control. You know exactly what is going through in your fleet and machines and how good that fuel will