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WITH ORDER LEVELS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, DISTRIBUTORS HAVE OFTEN BATTLED
THEIR WAY THROUGH CHALLENGING CONDITIONS TO REACH CUSTOMERS
“M
any of our members have
been implementing the Cold
Weather Priority Scheme,
launched last year to help prioritise elderly
and vulnerable customers,” said Guy Pulham,
the new chief executive of the Federation of
Petroleum Suppliers (FPS).
The FPS not only worked with
Government resilience teams to get roads
in rural areas cleared, but also sought and
received an emergency exemption to drivers’
hours, enabling its members to catch up on
deliveries.
With treacherous road conditions, FPS
advice to trust your regular local supplier was
sound – when a lady with a young baby was
cut off by snow, the Craggs Energy team
carried containers three quarters of a mile to
reach the property.
Transitioning the heating industry
In February representatives from both FPS
and OFTEC were present at a meeting with
the Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Reporting the meeting to have been
‘constructive’, OFTEC said that: ‘while there
is a pressing need to transition the whole
heating industry away from the use of high
carbon, the government does not have a clear
preference for how this happens…
Oil may come with delivery problems in
bad weather, but if the Energy Saving T