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Fuel Oil News April 2016

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20 APRIL 2016 | FUEL OIL NEWS | www.fueloilnews.com T he 2016 WPMA Expo ran Feb. 16-18 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. The cornerstone event of the Western Petroleum Marketers Association, it featured a range of educational sessions including a presentation by PMAA's new chairman, Rob Underwood, and an Expo with over 280 exhibitors. The exhibitors provided solutions from rack to retail on the fuel side. While the Northeast represents the primary market for the heating oil industry, the Northwest remains a region where heating oil is a common deliverable fuel solution. The Expo featured more than a few companies offering solutions applicable to heating oil and propane delivery as well as bulk plant operations. Here are some of the companies that were exhibiting at the show that should be of interest to Fuel Oil News readers. 2016 WPMA EXPO ADD SYSTEMS was at the show highlighting its broad product offerings. On the deliverable fuels side was the Raven handheld hardware and software solution that automates the delivery process, from pumping fuel to accepting payments and adding charges to printing the invoice. ALFONS HAAR AMERICAS had on display an interesting new offering in the form of a direct-drive truck fuel pump that was directly coupled to the PTO with no prop shaft required. The PRO-FIT tank truck vane pump has a capacity of up to 160 gallons per minute and is said to eliminate prop shaft ham- mering and eventual related repair and replacement costs. BASE ENGINEERING INC. was showcasing its ProControl2 radio remote control for fuel delivery drivers. This device offers up to nine channels of ALFONS HAAR AMERICAS

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