Mobile refueling is an increasingly popular choice. Saves significant time & money for virtually all users.
In the past, small equipment was fueled by those familiar five gallon containers. Large equipment was fueled by "wet hoser" trucks, which pulled up to each piece of equipment individually to fill their tanks.
Current "Best Practice" eliminates those messy five gallon cans, and most of the wet hoser fuel truck deliveries.
Five gallon cans:
- Small. Obviously, a 500 gallon TransFueler beats a 5 gallon can. By a factor of 100...
- Inefficient: Multiple leaky little containers to deal with.
- Expensive: Buying small amounts of fuel at "street" prices.
- Frequent spills: Who hasn't experienced this?
- Dangerous: Fuel spillage, skin contamination. Fire & health hazardous.
- Awkward to handle. And you have that fuel smell on you and in your vehicle all day.
Wet Hoser Fuel Truck:
- Inconvenient: Must pre-schedule fuel. Equipment sits idle waiting for fuel.
- Expensive: Every time the truck delivers on-site incurs a trip charge.
- More Expensive: Still not buying enough fuel to get the best bulk discounts.
TransFueler:
- Holds plenty of fuel to keep vehicles, equipment, generators or aircraft running.
- Vastly more efficient. Refuel 24/7, anywhere you need to.
- Much safer. Very low spill rate. Very low body contact with fuel.
- Easy to dispense fuel: Simple dispensing system keeps it easy to use.
- Less Expensive: Equipment keeps working until it needs refueling.
- Less Expensive: Equipment operator keeps working until equipment needs refueling.
- Less Expensive: Buy larger quantities of fuel to get a lower price.
- Less Expensive: Reduce trip charges by needing fewer fuel truck deliveries.
Looking at this, yes, it does look like an overt sales pitch. Reality is, each point is true. A TransFueler really does increase productivity & convenience, as well as save money. That results in a very real "Best Practice".
Mobile fueling is a quickly growing practice. Think of the vehicles, equipment & aircraft that need to be refueled. TransFueler mobile refuelers allow for simple & convenient refueling, where you need it, 24/7.
We'll outline three scenarios that benefit from TransFueler mobile refuelers. In this post, I will present the case of emergency medical / life flight type of helicopter operators.
Helicopter Operator
Our customer is America's largest operator of helicopters. Their primary business is providing emergency air ambulance / medical evacuation flights, and also operate tourism flights, and other commercial helicopter services in several locations.
The company currently operates about 450 helicopters, from 300 bases, and employs around 5,000 people. Every year, they will provide over 100,000 medical emergency flights.
Imagine the logistics of that... Nearly every flight is unscheduled; on demand. Crews and helicopters departing and returning constantly, around the clock. As soon as a helicopter returns to it's base, it is prepared for its next mission. Restocked with medical supplies, mechanically checked over, and refueled.
Many of these helicopters are located at bases where there is not 24 hour fuel service. Others are based at hospitals, with no fuel service at all. Starting up and flying the helicopters to another airport just to refuel, is very, very costly & inefficient.
Having a TransFueler on site, whether it's at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, or a small airport in Nebraska means these life-saving helicopters can be refueled immediately upon returning form a mission. Back in service, ready to go, 24/7...
The cost of a TransFueler Aviation refueler is minuscule compared to the saving of both money & time. To get an idea of the costs & savings involved, consider that it costs around $300 simply to start up and fly 15 minutes to another location to refuel. Then another $300 to start up and fly back to base. (Rough figures, based on typical turbine helicopters commonly used) Multiply that $600 by the number of times needed, and it adds up VERY quickly. Add in the fact that the aircraft & crew are not in service, or available to respond to a call during that hour it takes to accomplish the refueling trip. That's lost time that may dearly cost a patient awaiting transport.
Financially, TransFuelers are paid for very rapidly in these cases. Operationally, simply imagine that you or a loved one are seriously ill or injured and need to be transported to a hospital IMMEDIATELY...
