Truckie fumes at the price of Adblue
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A truckie has expressed his frustration with the dramatic jump in the price of AdBlue, a chemical needed to run diesel trucks suddenly in short supply around the world.
Taking to , the truckie with the handle @ih8tarmak filmed an AdBlue bowser, zooming in on the price display which reads 199.99 a litre.
'Have a f***ing look at this?
See there, 199.99 a litre,' the exasperated truckie says.
'It was a f***ing dollar two weeks ago.
'F***ing price gouging.'
The truckie with the TikTok handle @ih8tarmak filmed an AdBlue bowser, zooming in on the price display which reads 199.99 a litre, which he claimed was double the previous week
As revealed by Daily Mail Australia , Australia's main producer of the chemical, AUSblue, has resorted to flying in emergency supplies to prevent shortages from paralysing supply chains during the crucial Christmas delivery period.
AdBlue is a crucial fluid in modern diesel vehicles, with their computerised engine management systems requiring the substance to reduce levels of nitric oxide pollution.
The substance, also known as Mobile Diesel Repair in Las Vegas Exhaust Fluid, was introduced by vehicle manufacturers in order to comply with stringent emission targets.
An ingredient of the fluid, urea, is in short supply after China ceased exports and local producers shut production for maintenance, creating a 'perfect storm' for AdBlue availability.
AUSblue, which manufactures half of Australia's AdBlue, is frantically securing new supplies of the anti-pollutant from overseas.
Unless the company can source enough from overseas, there could be major supply chain delays by next month.
The urea supply crisis has the potential to stop goods getting to supermarket shelves, which would lead to higher inflation as many utes and four wheel drives are unable to start.
AdBlue is a crucial fluid in modern diesel vehicles, with their computerised engine management systems requiring the substance to reduce levels of nitric oxide pollution
An ingredient of the fluid, urea, is in short supply after China ceased exports and local producers shut production for maintenance, creating a 'perfect storm' for AdBlue availability
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On Tuesday, BP began restricting the amount of AdBlue a customer could buy per transaction - emulating supermarket limits on toilet paper sales at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association chief executive Mark McKenzie told Daily Mail Australia on Friday his service stations, including BP, were banning customers from panic buying more AdBlue than they needed.
'We're getting a bit of a run on the product at service stations for obvious reasons,' he said.
As recently as Friday, service stations were allowing motorists to fill their AdBlue reservoirs but not jerrycans.
'We'll allow them to get the normal level they need to put into the AdBlue reservoir but we won't be allowing people to fill up jerrycans and the like at service stations,' Mr McKenzie said.
'It's panic buying because they're trying to just fill every vessel they can.'
BP began restricting the amount of AdBlue a customer could buy per transaction this week
Online a number of diesel mechanics are urging owners of vehicles requiring Adblue to use a 'delete' process to disable the system by reprogramming the engine management system.
Some vehicles require a small electronic unit to be hardwired into the vehicle to disable the system.
One Dubbo mechanic posted it had deleted AdBlue from a farmer's tractor harvesters so they could keep running during the harvest.
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Taking to , the truckie with the handle @ih8tarmak filmed an AdBlue bowser, zooming in on the price display which reads 199.99 a litre.
'Have a f***ing look at this?
See there, 199.99 a litre,' the exasperated truckie says.
'It was a f***ing dollar two weeks ago.
'F***ing price gouging.'
The truckie with the TikTok handle @ih8tarmak filmed an AdBlue bowser, zooming in on the price display which reads 199.99 a litre, which he claimed was double the previous week
As revealed by Daily Mail Australia , Australia's main producer of the chemical, AUSblue, has resorted to flying in emergency supplies to prevent shortages from paralysing supply chains during the crucial Christmas delivery period.
AdBlue is a crucial fluid in modern diesel vehicles, with their computerised engine management systems requiring the substance to reduce levels of nitric oxide pollution.
The substance, also known as Mobile Diesel Repair in Las Vegas Exhaust Fluid, was introduced by vehicle manufacturers in order to comply with stringent emission targets.
An ingredient of the fluid, urea, is in short supply after China ceased exports and local producers shut production for maintenance, creating a 'perfect storm' for AdBlue availability.
AUSblue, which manufactures half of Australia's AdBlue, is frantically securing new supplies of the anti-pollutant from overseas.
Unless the company can source enough from overseas, there could be major supply chain delays by next month.
The urea supply crisis has the potential to stop goods getting to supermarket shelves, which would lead to higher inflation as many utes and four wheel drives are unable to start.
AdBlue is a crucial fluid in modern diesel vehicles, with their computerised engine management systems requiring the substance to reduce levels of nitric oxide pollution
An ingredient of the fluid, urea, is in short supply after China ceased exports and local producers shut production for maintenance, creating a 'perfect storm' for AdBlue availability
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On Tuesday, BP began restricting the amount of AdBlue a customer could buy per transaction - emulating supermarket limits on toilet paper sales at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association chief executive Mark McKenzie told Daily Mail Australia on Friday his service stations, including BP, were banning customers from panic buying more AdBlue than they needed.
'We're getting a bit of a run on the product at service stations for obvious reasons,' he said.
As recently as Friday, service stations were allowing motorists to fill their AdBlue reservoirs but not jerrycans.
'We'll allow them to get the normal level they need to put into the AdBlue reservoir but we won't be allowing people to fill up jerrycans and the like at service stations,' Mr McKenzie said.
'It's panic buying because they're trying to just fill every vessel they can.'
BP began restricting the amount of AdBlue a customer could buy per transaction this week
Online a number of diesel mechanics are urging owners of vehicles requiring Adblue to use a 'delete' process to disable the system by reprogramming the engine management system.
Some vehicles require a small electronic unit to be hardwired into the vehicle to disable the system.
One Dubbo mechanic posted it had deleted AdBlue from a farmer's tractor harvesters so they could keep running during the harvest.
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