Who got fuel, where, how much — and whether it went into a rig or into everything else.
Fuel is the second largest cost on a piling site after labour, and the one most easily lost. This record makes the loss visible the day it happens rather than the month it is invoiced.
How it works
One record per day, one line per issue of fuel. A machine that took fuel twice is two lines. Each line carries:
- Location / KM — the bridge it went to, from the same list of kilometres the pile records use
- Company — whose machine it was: your own, hired plant, or one of the subcontractor slots
- Equipment Type — what kind of machine
- Fleet / Machine ID — the plant number
- Diesel Issued (L) — litres off the bowser
- Remarks
Fill from the plant register writes a line for every machine on site with its type and company already filled in. Put the litres against the ones that took fuel and clear the rest.
Rig diesel and everything else
The one split this record exists for: Piling Rig on one side, everything else on the other. It is worked out from the equipment type, never typed, so it can never disagree with the line it describes. The day's totals show both, and so does the printed sheet.
That split is what makes fuel answerable. "We burnt 19,000 litres" is not a number anybody can act on; "13,000 of it went into rigs, and rig diesel is 10 litres per metre drilled" is.
What it feeds
The Overview's Fuel panel reads the lines, not the daily totals — which is what lets it answer the questions actually asked about diesel:
- Rig diesel against site equipment, and rig litres per metre drilled
- By company — how much is charged to each subcontractor, which is where a payment conversation starts
- By bridge — which kilometre is burning the fuel
- The machines that took most, and litres day by day
A daily total cannot be split up after the fact, which is why the sheet is kept a line at a time.
Two things the form insists on
- Litres with no machine against them are refused — that figure cannot be charged to anybody, and charging it is the point.
- A machine named with no litres is refused too, because it is almost always a line somebody started and left.
An unusually large issue — more than 2,000 litres in one go — is a warning, not a refusal. A bowser can empty into a rig, and that is a real morning.