With the departures for the All Saints holidays, the search for gasoline will be one of the main activities of the weekend. Here are the best tools to avoid fuel shortage on the highway…
The news is enough for the moment to leave quietly: a little more than 16% of service stations in France were still experiencing difficulties in fuel yesterday, against more than 20% the day before and around 30% in the worst days of the crisis. The shortage of petrol nevertheless continues in certain regions, where one station in five or even one station in four is sometimes short of one or more fuels.
With departures in All Saints holidays this weekend, the fuel shortage therefore remains a major concern for motorists. To reassure, the motorway networks delivered reassuring figures this Friday, October 21. 90% of the service stations along the motorways would have petrol, of which 92% for Vinci Autoroutes, 90% for Sanef (Company of the motorways of the North and East of France) and 88% for APRR (Autoroutes Paris- Rhine-Rhone).
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To avoid gasoline shortages and find fuel, these companies offer online tools that allow you to prepare your journey and your stops to refuel. To find gasoline, dedicated systems have even been set up in this period of shortage. Vinci thus offers on its Services-aires.vinci-autoroutes.com the list of stations with fuel or partially or totally out of stock in real time, such as Sanef which offers to connect to its real time traffic service. APRR for its part has published a summary pagewith a table listing the areas with stations where fuel is available.
Our search engine to find fuel
To take the highway and go on vacation or weekend, the other tools made available on the Web since the beginning of the gasoline shortage are still valid. Linternaute.com has developed a search engine from official data on fuels, which provides information on the situation of stations in a department or town crossed, with a classification by date and time of update.
Since the start of the fuel shortage, tools have been aplenty on the Web to help motorists find gasoline. The card from the Ministry of Economy is as such one of the most reliable sources, but the collaborative map of the website Mon-Essence.fr is also valuable. Many traffic applications or dedicated to shortages are also available on smartphones, such as Waze, Gasoil Now or Essence & co.