WELL, this is useful news if your SME fleet of business cars and vans uses a euroShell fuel card. If you’re running low on fuel, you and your business drivers can now use a Texaco fuel station.
It now means that SME fleet euroShell card holders can use Shell, Texaco, Total and Esso sites in the UK, while the Shell card can also be used to pay toll charges on the M6 toll.
It follows the signing of card acceptance agreements with Valero Energy – the business that markets fuel in the UK under the Texaco brand – to offer euroShell card customers the opportunity to fill up at UK Texaco-branded sites in 2012.
Philip Williams, UK sales manager, Shell Commercial Fleet, said: “At Shell, we are committed to expanding our customer offer. This new collaboration with the Texaco network of service stations enables us to further improve our offer to euroShell customers and give them even more choice and availability when travelling throughout the UK.”
Karen Goane, manager fuel card sales, Valero, added: “We are always looking to improve the support we give to our retailers and customers. This agreement with Shell helps achieve this by increasing customer choice while introducing new customers to Texaco service stations.”
This welcome news for SME fleet fuel card users follows the sale by Arval of the Allstar fuel card to FleetCor Technologies.
The use of a fuel card to pay for business fuel is not universal to all SME fleets running more than 25 cars or vans. A recent survey by MIB Data Solutions found that 40% of SME fleets did not use a fuel card.
“Fleets using credit cards or pay-and-reclaim have no way of easily seeing where fuel is being bought, how much drivers are paying, who is using excess fuel and even whether fraud is occurring,” commented managing director Nick Boddington.
