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Stepping up oil transport productivity
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• Methods aimed at increasing road transport productivity were demonstrated by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. prior to the opening by Princess Alexandra of the new £34m Haydock Terminal 4CM June 13). Europe's largest inland oil distribution centre will handle 64m gallons annually, the products being brought in from Stanlow by pipeline and rail, and from Heysham by rail, and distributed by 100 road tankers.
A staff of 260 is employed at the terminal of whom 170 are drivers working on a twoshift system covering six days a week.
The daily scheduling of the tankers for each shift of drivers is based on work study methods that apply to each section of the driver's activities, including the loading, driving time to each customer, delivery time at each point, and the return to terminal. As many industrial users will accept delivery outside ordinary business hours, black oil distribution is largely on a double-shift system but this arrangement is less practicable for light oils although it has been found possible to deliver to filling stations in some districts as late as 10 p.m. Routeing is arranged so far as possible so that vehicles travel against any heavy traffic flows.
An automatic control system is used to direct tankers to vacant loading bays at the terminal's two gantry filling islands, the purpose being to facilitate vehicle movement in this area, particularly at peak periods. The heart of the system is a series of electrical sensing loops buried beneath each loading bay and traffic lane. The electrical circuits transmit information regarding vehicles entering the control area, and those standing at the loading gantries, to a remote counter and vacancy computer. This computer employs such details to control the operation of traffic lights which govern the movement of the road tankers passing to and from the loading bays. On the two gantry islands already mentioned there are 32 loading hays at which the largest capacity vehicles are filled at flow rates of 500-1.000 g.p.m. Drivers load their own vehicles, pre-setting their requirements on the pump meters. The delivery figure is automatically printed on the vehicle's loading ticket. Distribution from Haydock covers among other places Merseyside, Warrington, St. Helens, Lytham St. Armes, Burnley and Settle.
The largest road vehicles employed are Scammell Trunkers with 6,700-gal capacity tanks although 6,150gal is the highest permissible loading. A training school is operated at which all newly engaged drivers undergo a week's conversion course. Maintenance takes place in a specially designed building, there also being a workshop with welding plant and a semi-automatic vehicle washing bay.