Making your winter propane deliveries and locking in your margins now can help to ease any concerns surrounding product shortages and price spikes this winter. (Photo: Andyqwe/iStock / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images)

Top Retailers speak on delivery vehicle features

June 29, 2025 By LP Gas

When it comes to your propane delivery vehicles, what features are most important to you?

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Katie Scott of Energy Partners Propane says that she loves the potential to constantly learn and grow as a company driver. (Photo by Anna Taylor, Energy Partners Propane)

Female drivers bring safety and skill to propane industry, but barriers remain

June 23, 2025 By Nicole Schlosser

Getting more women behind the wheel as propane delivery drivers has not proven easy, but those who conquer the initial obstacles find it rewarding.

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SEPATEC expands driver training program for 2025

February 5, 2025 By Sydney Fischer

The program is open to individuals aged 21 and older, with a maximum of five participants permitted per class each week.

This article is tagged with drivers, education, Southeast Propane Alliance, training and posted in News, From the Magazine

In the Know: Driver qualification

October 10, 2024 By Shawn Treat

What are the requirements related to driver qualification files?

This article is tagged with Department of Transportation (DOT), driver safety, drivers, fleet management, fleet vehicles, In the Know, propane resources, Propane Resources LLC, truck drivers and posted in Current Issue, Blue Flame Blog, From the Magazine

Propane retailers share supply strategies of past 10 years

April 17, 2024 By Brian Richesson

The anniversary winter marking 10 years since the propane supply and distribution challenges of 2013-14 is now complete.

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Challenges for fleets include a driver shortage and lead times. (Photo courtesy of Drew James Productions)

Success hinges on marketers mastering the areas of drivers, equipment, fuel

August 7, 2023 By Brian Richesson

Propane marketers working to run their operations optimally are navigating issues with their trucking fleet, and many of the issues revolve around timing.

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Taxes and the shift to lower sulfur diesel influence prices in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of Drew James Productions)

Diesel settles: Prices moderate as panic buying eases

June 20, 2023 By Phillip M. Perry

The global nature of diesel has led to its elevated pricing in the U.S., despite the nation’s export of roughly 1 million barrels of the distillate every day.