White diesel, AdBlue, and petrol for construction vehicles, plant, and site equipment. Construction fuel is bought retail or on single-supplier accounts by most businesses — collective purchasing creates contracted rates that individual accounts cannot access. No change to your delivery arrangements, just better pricing on every litre.
Construction businesses consume significant quantities of diesel — site vehicles, plant, generators, and heated welfare units. Most buy on a single supplier account that was set up when the business started and has been rolling on adjusted monthly pricing ever since. The pricing reflects the individual account relationship, not the competitive market for contracted volume.
Fuel distributors offer contracted pricing for volume commitments that is consistently better than standard account pricing. The advantage is typically 3–6p per litre — modest on individual purchases, material when applied to 30,000+ litres per year across a fleet and plant operation. On 40,000 litres annually, 5p/litre is £2,000. On 100,000 litres, it is £5,000. Recurring every year from one competitive review.
White diesel (DERV) for road vehicles, AdBlue for Stage V plant and Euro 6 vehicles, petrol for plant and small equipment, and heating oil for site welfare units. Pool purchasing is structured as quarterly contracted volumes — participants estimate their quarterly consumption, the pool aggregates, and IQ tenders to contracted fuel distributors. Each business receives their own delivery at the contracted pool rate — no shared storage, no operational change.