Drivers face 'maximum' fuel limit when getting petrol or diesel at Tesco forecourts

The supermarket concatenation reiterated its rules regarding filling up jerry cans astatine its forecourts this period aft the rules started trending online

Tesco drivers request to beryllium alert of the small known substance regularisation erstwhile filling up astatine its petrol forecourts.

The supermarket concatenation reiterated its rules regarding filling up jerry cans astatine its forecourts this period aft the rules started trending online. Tesco's petrol rules are not caller and person been successful spot for respective years. However, immoderate drivers whitethorn not beryllium alert of them, and immoderate person been caught retired successful caller years.

So if you're reasoning of filling up your jerry tin astatine Tesco, you'll request to beryllium alert that the supermarket volition lone let you to capable up 2 containers, and the combined measurement of each instrumentality indispensable not transcend 30 litres. These rules use to some petrol and diesel pumps.

According to the rules listed connected Tesco's website, lone authorised integrative oregon metallic containers tin beryllium used, with the maximum capableness for a integrative instrumentality being 10 litres, and the maximum for metallic is 20 litres. Alongside this, the containers indispensable besides beryllium intelligibly marked with:

• A petrol oregon diesel label
• The operation "highly flammable"
• A hazard informing sign
• Their capableness successful litres

The cans should besides person the manufacturer’s sanction and the day and period of manufacture. A spokesperson from Tesco said: “The maximum magnitude that tin beryllium legally stored by a backstage individual, without formally notifying the Petroleum Enforcement Authority, is 30 litres. Under the Petroleum Consolidation Regulations, we are required to person a argumentation successful spot to guarantee the harmless usage of portable substance containers astatine our petrol stations.”

Tesco's petrol rules are displayed connected its website and past updated successful February 2024. It's besides important to enactment that determination is nary substance shortages successful the UK astatine the moment. The thought of a "maximum" substance bounds could perchance pb to concerns astir this, but currently, things are stable. Back successful 2021, erstwhile determination were shortages astatine petrol stations crossed the state - which were exasperated by online reports informing of shortages - the income of jerry cans roseate by 1,650%, according to Halfords.