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207 new tankers for BP Oil
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IN A £41million programme, 207 new tankers are joining BP Oil's road tanker fleet as replacements this year.
The fleet—total strength is 850 tankers—is responsible for delivering annually some eight million tons of petroleum products, a third of the total tonnage carried by BP Oil, over an annual road mileage of over 25 million miles.
The 207 replacement vehicles are of different types and carrying capacity. They are: 46 Leyland Chieftains and 54 Leyland Bisons which will be used for carrying motor spirit, dery and gas oil. The 20-ton articulated Chieftains will carry 16,370 litres (3,600gal) and the 24-ton rigid Bisons 18,200 litres (4,000gal).
Seven Foden 32-ton tractive units with trailers of 30,000 litres (6,600gal) capacity for the carriage of motor spirit, dery and gas oil. For the present, these will be short loaded to 27,700 litres (6,100gal) to keep within the present 32ton limit. If Common Market regulations uprate this limit, then full loads will be carried. 36 ERF and 35 Seddon Atkinson 30-ton rigids with a carrying capacity of 22,700 litres (5,000gal). They will be used mainly for delivering light, medium and heavy fuel oils. 19 Leyland Clydesdale 12,800litre (2,800gal) and two Bedford 11,400-litre (2,500gal) hose-reel vehicles, for deliveries to premises such as schools and hospitals where small vehicles have to be used. Three Leyland Clydesdale bulk lubricant vehicles, each with multiple compartments and separate pumping gear for different grades of lubricating oil.
Five ERF bitumen tankers— two 30-ton rigids of 18,200litre (4,000gal) and three 32ton artics of 21,800-litre (4,800gal) capacity.
The tankers are all fitted with load-sensing devices.