Member Since: 25 Jul 2011
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Rip-Off Britain
I know that fuel prices at motorway service stations are higher than what's accepted as normal but 150.9 at Membury on the M4 really seems to be taking the mick.
30th Aug 2018 10:26 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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I had the same the other week. I usually avoid motorway service filling stations, but towing the tintent to Devon I thought I'd better keep topped up. Shell, 19p/litre more than a Shell station not on the motorway!
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30th Aug 2018 10:30 am
GLYNNE
Member Since: 06 Oct 2006
Location: KENT
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I refuse to use them and will turn of to avoid using them.
If everyone did the same then they would have to rethink the pricing.
I have 5 vans who do many miles and couldn’t afford to run them at motorway prices. All drivers are instructed to NOT use them.
30th Aug 2018 11:00 am
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30th Aug 2018 11:10 am
mick_n3
Member Since: 19 May 2017
Location: Kettering
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They are a total rip off end of,
Over priced fuel
Over priced food and drink
You have to pay for more than 2 hours to park and this happens,
Moto Services Wolley edge last night completely emptied, not mine but taken from a facebook group I'm in, £23 to park, when asked about cctv and security Moto said err there isn't any
Scotch Corner services were 19p more than the Rheged services I filled up at on the way back from the Lakes last weekend. Cheeky F*s.
Absolute thieves
30th Aug 2018 4:08 pm
Red Merle
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Mick_n3:
Judging by the suspension on the police car, the open door and the dubious parking, it looks like the police did it and stuffed all the gear in the back of the Pug...
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30th Aug 2018 4:17 pm
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30th Aug 2018 8:57 pm
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Red Merle wrote:
Mick_n3:
Judging by the suspension on the police car, the open door and the dubious parking, it looks like the police did it and stuffed all the gear in the back of the Pug...
What happens if they get pulled over
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30th Aug 2018 9:10 pm
KTM Gordo
Member Since: 18 Jul 2017
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I think of fuel at motorway services as being there for emergency use only, for just that reason.
Some services are better than others for food and other services, and with care (and a discount code) can be reasonably priced.
One I do try to avoid is Welcome Break which, despite claiming the high prices are to allow for a 24/7 service, closes its food outlets at 2230 each night. I've had staff there suggest I go to a competitor's site for food...!Gordon
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31st Aug 2018 9:05 am
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Member Since: 17 Aug 2013
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Like many people I avoid filling up at Motorway services but if I'm on a long trip especially with a trailer then I have no issues taking it on the chin. I often think I'll just put £20 in and fill up later then I think by the time stop again or drive around looking for somewhere cheaper I may as well pay the extra £10-£15.IID PRO
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31st Aug 2018 10:57 am
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31st Aug 2018 11:25 am
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31st Aug 2018 7:20 pm
mke
Member Since: 07 Aug 2016
Location: Kent
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I agree, it is a complete rip-off. But who is doing the ripping off? Particularly for the sites that run on and off motorways in between junctions, are they owned by the operator, or by the Department of Transport? I've always assumed that before the operator makes any money at all (and they used to have to pay for staff, heat and light even when at night there weren't enough customers to make a profit - even though, as someone has said, nowadays they seem just to run a coffee shop), they have to pay thousands of pounds to the Government for the privilege of running the site. And if so, it isn't the site operator who is ripping us off, it's the Government with a 'hidden tax', hiding behind the site operators, and more than happy to see them slated as greedy, rather than be criticised themselves.
I remember seeing the then new Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on TV just after the fuel crisis when the Country came to a standstill in a week after the lorry drivers blockaded the fuel distribution system, saying that it was wrong of a fuel company to have put up their prices just as things were beginning to get back to normal. I have no idea how he managed to keep a straight face when ignoring the fact that we all find the actual cost of fuel completely acceptable. It's the extraordinarily high rates of double tax (customs duty plus VAT) that make us all baulk at the prices. And the protest all those years ago was against that tax, not the actual cost of fuel.
31st Aug 2018 10:34 pm
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The question is: if HMRC cut fuel duty in half over night, would the forecourt prices drop by the same margin overnight? I think we all know the answer to that.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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