Travelling can be unpredictable. You never know what will happen on the road, what lies ahead or what might happen in the middle of the night.

Recently, Denise Markham and her companions were travelling from Central Coast to Wellington near midnight when a kangaroo appeared, jumping straight into their car, causing it to break down.

Denise and her companions were stranded in the dark with no mobile service and no “Plan B”. Moments later, a petrol tanker pulled over. A man carrying a torch approached them and, out of concern, let them borrow his mobile phone so that they could call for help. The man had to meet delivery deadlines so he offered to leave his torch and phone, telling them he would be back in a few hours. Assuming they would have received help by then, he told the travellers to just leave his phone beside one of the white posts on the side of the road. On his way back from his delivery, he spotted the group and stayed with them until help arrived.

IOR Petroleum is so very grateful to have team members like John Ralston: the man with the torch, the phone and the petrol tanker.

From the whole team at IOR, thank you John for embodying the spirit of “bush” service, and to Denise for sharing with us this story of mateship from one of our own.

Since 1984, IOR Petroleum has been an Australian-owned family company, helping fuel regional and remote Australia with more than 60 diesel stop facilities and fuel depots. Today, we shine a spotlight on the next generation of IOR’s 24/7 unmanned diesel stops across Queensland, which will enable us to provide you with even better service and fuel management efficiency.

Charlton – Toowoomba Launch

This year, IOR has opened new sites at Gundagai, Barcaldine and Mt Hope (NSW). Our latest opening, timed to coincide with Toowoomba FarmFest in early June, is our Toowoomba Enterprise Hub site on the Warrego Highway at Charlton.

The facility will be unmanned and have 16 fast-flow nozzles with a load-out facility discharging at 900L/min. This site will enable us to provide a fast and reliable delivery service for bulk fuel users in the region. We welcome everyone to the opening party during FarmFest week.

YOUR INVITATION

IOR Petroleum is opening its supersite at Charlton with sizzle

You are invited to the launch of the new unmanned 24/7 Diesel Stop at Charlton, officiated by Mayor Paul Antonio.

The new site is cashless, featuring the latest “tap and go tag” technology as well as a load out facility for bulk diesel deliveries to farms, businesses and civil construction projects in the region.

All members of the local and regional communities are invited to come and enjoy an “old time” country morning tea and barbecue.

Fuelling regional and outback Australia since 1984, IOR is a family-owned business, as well as a proud supporter of Heart of Australia, LifeFlight and various grass-roots community initiatives throughout the outback.

The launch event will be a great opportunity for locals to meet with other businesses and industries from Toowoomba and the surrounding areas.

We will be announcing event details very soon, so head to www.ior.com.au for more information, or follow IOR on Facebook or Twitter.

We “go the extra mile” for you…

New locations in the coming months for:

Dalby, QLD: located just off the Warrego Highway, we are providing a great addition to our network for existing fleet users and local businesses at our new Dalby site. We will be in town with our friendly and reliable bulk fuel delivery services for users in the wider region and look forward to meeting you.

Warwick, QLD: located centrally in town, we are excited to bring IOR’s great “bush” service to the Southern Downs for main line freight carriers, farms and industries alike. Our site is drive-through, easy to access and will offer our unique bulk fuel delivery service.

Gracemere, QLD: the facility will be located to the south on the Capricorn Hwy and will provide easy access for all. As well as the 24/7 unmanned Diesel Stop facility, the site will also be developed as a mechanical workshop to maintain our fleet of trucks and trailers servicing Central Queensland. This new hub for our fleet will enable faster and more efficient delivery to customers throughout Central Queensland.

Other sites to operate soon are located at Barcaldine and Yatala in Queensland, as well as Port Augusta in South Australia.

Unique products and solutions

IOR has been a pioneer in the development of self-bunded, above-ground fuel storage systems, and has developed world leading technology to help you track and manage your fuel use. Our TAG system enables cashless transactions anywhere in Australia at our unmanned facilities and this is how IOR fuels road transport, farms and businesses operating across mainland Australia.

IOR’s state-of-the-art fuel monitoring and tracking systems offer unique opportunities for you to gain savings on your fleet and equipment management and ensure that you will never run out of fuel, even in the most remote parts of Australia.

IOR has become the “go to” fuel solutions provider because of its safety and compliance history, local easy-to-contact staff, tank solutions capabilities, reliability, fleet ownership and technology.

Services to more industries

Our technology leadership enables us to provide integrated fuel management and storage solutions delivering reduced operating costs to our customers. For more than 30 years, IOR has been the choice of businesses across the road freight, livestock carrying, agribusiness, oil and gas industries for fuel supply.

In recent years, IOR has also grown its aviation fuel business with a focus on supporting users in remote and regional areas. The division supports local airports, crop sprayers, tourism operators, emergency services and farm users and provides high quality Shell JetA1 and Avgas fuels.

IOR sources its products from Australia’s leading fuel refiners and importers, ensuring high quality fuel and reliability.

Continued support for sustainable communities

IOR is proud to provide sponsorship to help build better and more sustainable communities in regional and rural Australia. Our sponsorships include grass-roots community events like the Quilpie Cup, Daly Waters Campdraft and Rodeo, McKinlay Race Club, Cloncurry and District Race Club and many more. IOR also supports numerous other organisations such as the Heart of Australia, Toowoomba-Surat Business Enterprise (TSBE), and LifeFlight.

Other community sponsorships include:
•Chinchilla Melon Fest
•Roma Echidnas
•Outback Barrel Horse Circuit
•Julia Creek Dirt and Dust Festival
•Roma District Rugby League Referees
•St Joseph’s Chinchilla Fete
•Alpha Show
•Dirranbandi Campdraft
•Bedourie Camel Races

IOR is family owned and operated and understands the importance of reliability, flexibility and friendly “bush” customer service. We talk your language and we are proud of our long-term relationships. That’s why we are always prepared to “go that extra mile” for you.

 For more information on how IOR Petroleum is fuelling Australia, call 1300 457 467 or go to www.ior.com.au

IOR not only fuels the outback, but also provides support to the Eromanga Natural History Museum by supplying fuel for its vehicles and archaeological digs.

The Museum, which opened in March of 2016, is located just 5 km from IOR’s Eromanga Refinery.

IOR headquarters will be making a move to new office space located at 99 Southgate Avenue, Cannon Hill, Queensland from Monday 4 July 2016.

Our IOR team has outgrown our current location and we now are set to leave our home for the past 25 years in Bulimba.

As part of the relocation, our postal address has been updated and we encourage you to update your records.

Our new postal address is: PO Box 576, Cannon Hill QLD 4170

IOR new headquarters located at Cannon Hill

The Driver – published and on sale now!

Professional photographer Alice Mabin takes on the might of the publishing elite on her own terms once again and has already won with pre-orders of  “The Driver”.

As Asia Pacific Entrepreneur of the year for 2015, Alice Mabin is always looking to capture the essence of the outback and the rural industry way of life.

In 2013, Alice embarked on a photographic project that recorded the journey of 18,000 head of cattle that walked 2,000km from Northern Australia to New South Wales. This project saw Alice publish her own book, The Drover, and became a 4 times best Australian seller.

Alice has now finished her second book, The Driver, which is a look into the lives and stories behind Australia’s trucking industry.

A production of road train proportions, and a project unlike anything you will have seen before, it focuses on real people and real stories enhanced by striking imagery from every state and territory across Australia and New Zealand.

Alice Mabin, Author of The Driver

In 228 pages, The Driver, self-published by Alice, documents the reality of the daily grind for 110 different trucking companies and drivers.  Different businesses transporting different products, each adding to the variety of the enthralling content.

This is the never-before-seen real life tale of the captivating lives of truck drivers and the critical role the heavy transport industry plays in everybody’s lives.

IOR has proudly supported Alice’s endeavour to put the heavy transport industry in the spotlight. A positive spotlight, that highlights to our nation, just how important this industry is to our daily lives.

On Friday 29 July, we look forwarding to hosting the official launch for Alice’s book next door to our new IOR headquarters.

If you would like to purchase a copy of this salute to the trucking industry, visit http://thedriverausnz.com/buy-available-books for more details.

It has been a busy year for IOR with the introduction of 9 brand new 24/7 Diesel Stops including our flag ship, premium site at Dinmore in South East Queensland.

Upgrades were also applied to Broken Hill with the introduction of EFTPOS and amenities and at Julia Creek which now accepts EFTPOS payment in addition to the IOR Tag.

Below is a list of the new sites introduced to the growing IOR Petroleum Diesel Stop network in 2015:

• Gracemere, Qld
• Dinmore, Qld
• Deniliquin, NSW
• Mildura, Vic
• White Cliffs, NSW
• Mt Garnet, Qld
• Pittsworth, Qld
• Mt Cavenagh, NT
• Capella, Qld
• Goondiwindi, Qld

The new premium 24/7 unmanned Diesel Stop at Goondiwindi is located on a highly visible block at the corner of Hungerford & Glasser Street with excellent access to the Leichhardt Highway.

Development of new sites across IOR’s unmanned Diesel Stop network to better serve customers is a major priority.  In 2016, we plan to continue opening new sites across major transport routes to improve access and service for our customers.

If you wish to receive basic alerts on network upgrades, scheduled maintenance and new site openings through the IOR Diesel Stop Notifications mailing list, please email your request to [email protected].

As always, we always welcome feedback and suggestions for new locations from existing or new customers, so please contact us on 1300 457 467.

For the current list of IOR 24/7 Diesel Stops, please click here.

New 24/7 Diesel Stop, Cnr Hungerford & Glasser Street, Goondiwindi

IOR has recently upgraded the Broken Hill depot and 24/7 unmanned Diesel Stop with an additional tank including EFTPOS facilities to assist customers paying by debit or credit card.

The Broken Hill depot is manned between 7am and 5pm from Monday to Friday with bulk diesel deliveries available for customer’s storing their own fuel supply.  For your convenience, there is now 24/7 toilet and shower amenities at the depot to use while refuelling at the Diesel Stop.

Broken Hill Depot and 24/7 Diesel Stop features:

• 24/7 Diesel Stop availability
• IOR Tag access and EFTPOS facilities available
• High and low flow bowsers
• Road train access
• Toilet & shower amenities
• Bulk diesel deliveries
• Self-bunded fuel storage tanks
• Fuel management systems, including HyDip automatic tank gauging

EFTPOS is also available at the Boomi, Cloncurry, Dinmore, Eromanga, Injune and Julia Creek 24/7 Diesel Stops.

We hope these changes improve your refuelling experience with IOR Petroleum and if you have any feedback regarding out network, we would love to hear from you.  If you would like to provide feedback on the IOR Diesel Stop network, please contact 1300 457 467.

Address: 9-11 Pinnacles Place, Broken Hill NSW
Contact: 0418 738 364 or 1300 457 467

IOR Petroleum is ready to welcome customers to the new 24/7 unmanned Diesel Stop at Dinmore from 9am, Tuesday 1 September 2015.

The new Diesel Stop features:

• 4 diesel bays with high flow bowsers that utilise IOR tag access for our account customers.
• Toilet and shower facilities for tag account customers.
• An additional diesel bay has been dedicated to customers with light vehicles using a credit or debit card.

Contact us today to open your account for access to our network, set weekly prices, the online customer portal and the Dinmore toilet and shower facilities.

We are also inviting new and existing customers to join us for a light lunch to celebrate the opening at the Dinmore IOR Diesel Stop on Friday 11 September from 12pm-1.30pm.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to [email protected] by Friday 4 September.

Site Address – 
Next to the Caltex unmanned site, located on Ashburn Road, Bundamba  (entrance via Hawkins Crescent)
Products Available – 
Diesel and AdBlue
New & Existing Account Enquiries –
1300 457 467 or [email protected]

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Living in rural and remote communities can have its challenges, including regular access to local specialist medical services.  Often people are required to travel to bigger cities, hundreds or thousands of kilometres from their homes for potentially lifesaving investigative or diagnostic medical appointments.

IOR Petroleum services remote and regional Australia with depots and 24/7 unmanned Diesel Stops which includes a large footprint across Queensland. We understand the impact and importance of giving back to the communities in which we operate, this includes support for the Heart of Australia program.  This mobile  clinic provides specialist cardiac and respiratory services travelling to 11 regional Queensland towns including Roma, Dalby, Charleville, St George, Goondiwindi, Emerald, Barcaldine, Charters Towers, Moranbah and Longreach.  This service saves an average distance of 650km travelled per patient on each visit!

Since the program launched in October 2014, the customised specialist clinic road train has managed to provide care for over 1,700 patients, with 11 being identified for open heart surgery.  That’s a lot of lives potentially saved and as a business with a direct link to the areas serviced by Heart of Australia, we are excited to support this initiative.

Barbara, an IOR customer based in Roma wrote to us recently about her very positive experience with the Heart of Australia clinic.  We are very pleased to hear that Barbara is feeling better and that the program has made such a difference to the life of one of our customers.

“I am just writing to say thank you for your sponsorship of the Heart of Australia truck. I recently had heart issues and through the perseverance of the attending Cardiologist at the truck and my GP, my problem was located and rectified.

 I may not be as well as I am today without this service and it is greatly appreciated.

I have a follow up appointment towards the end of this month. Not having to travel away to attend a service such as this is wonderful.”

To find out more, including information on how to book an appointment, please visit www.heartofaustralia.com

IOR Petroleum had fun attending the bi-annual Chinchilla Melon Festival in February and it was great to meet members of the local community.

We attended the 3 day festival with one of our fuel trucks participating in the parade. It was great to see the community out in force enjoying the caps and stubby coolers we handed out on the day.

Marty and I were surprised to learn that regional businesses in the agricultural sector did not know that we actually deliver bulk diesel to all business types – not just the mining and oil & gas sectors. To discuss your diesel fuel needs, contact Marty Corry at our Chinchilla depot on 0400 761 371 or [email protected]

After having a blast, I’d certainly love to attend the next Chinchilla Melon Festival In 2017!

Vicki Johnston

Vicki in the IOR truck at the Chinchilla Melon Festival 2015

Vicki with one of the IOR trucks from the parade