Everyone has been there, the fuel light is on and you have been driving for a while. There is a fair chance you will spend the next hour or so either waiting for a tow truck or walking around trying to find the nearest service station to you.

Scheduling in your fill ups is sometimes as important as your agenda for the day. Either at the start as you set off on your journey or at lunch. However filling up at scheduled times of the day is sometimes not as practical as it sounds especially if you are in an area that you are not that familiar with.

There is several practical solutions to avoid 'site seeing' on the side of the M4 for an hour or so. First of all using a fuel card that can be accepted at a large number of service stations, turning up at a site when you are on vapours and then finding out that your fuel card is not accepted is both annoying and will cost your business money through loss of time. TOTALCARD can be used at over 3,000 service stations in the UK including
turning up at a site when you are on vapours and then finding out that your fuel card is not accepted is both annoying and will cost your business money through loss of time
TOTAL, SHELL, BP & Power, so you are never to far away from where you can fill up.

Secondly knowing you can find where a service station is at the touch of a few buttons. TOTALCARD has introduced a raft of new facilities available to both it's customers and other business users.
  • By telephone: This is a service available 24 hours a day. This automated line give you directions to your nearest site.
  • By Text message: Simply send a text and get a response within 90 seconds of where your nearest site is located.
  • By Sat Nav download: Download a service station locator that can tell you where your nearest site is.
"TOTAL offers leading fuel management services which can make the difference between a business struggling to break even and making a healthy profit. Gone are the days when fleets were allowed to eat up fuel like there was no tomorrow, with the end product of service delivery allowed to justify the means. In today's world, we have to keep a close eye on fuel use, for reasons both financial and environmental. Fuel cards offer the most efficient means for fleet operators to keep control. However, not all fuel cards render the same benefits. It is important for the Institute to offer advice on this matter, for the sake of our members and other professionals in the fleet and logistics sectors. On the basis of extensive research, we find that TOTALCARD gives the best quality and best value service for fleets of all sizes. We are confident that it is the UK's premier fuel card."

To find out more about the station finder solutions from TOTALCARD click here.