HCOS1450 - Introduction: fuel for excepted vehicles
Gas oil, commonly known as red diesel, or Marked Gas Oil (MGO), is used to fuel vehicles that are within an ‘excepted class’ (see Schedule 1 of HODA 1979 - as amended).
These vehicles and the bulk tanks they fuel from can be found at:
- farms - tractors, agricultural material handlers and processing vehicles
- quarries - digging machines
- mines - digging machines and works trucks
- scrap yards - mobile cranes
- building sites - works trucks, digging machines, mobile cranes
- road construction sites - digging machines, specialist vehicles such as road surfacing vehicles and tar sprayers
- local authority or council depots - various types of vehicles, e.g. aerial platform vehicles, road surfacing vehicles, road rollers and tractors
- site clearance - unimogs (fitted for off-road use), digging machines, works trucks
- forests - mobile cranes, unimogs (off-road)
- company premises - fork-lift trucks
- docks, ports and ferry terminals - cranes, shunters
- naval establishments - cranes fork-lift trucks
- premises of excepted vehicle companies - crane hire and mobile pumping
- premises of heavy plant companies - various.