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Fuelling mobile machinery with fuel oil

It is not necessary to pay a fuel fee for e.g. mobile machinery and work machines mounted on a vehicle chassis, without any other bed, tank or other cargo space directly related to the task of the work machine.

What is a mobile machinery?

The vehicle category of a mobile machinery is MTK. They include e.g. shovel loaders, forklifts, reach stackers, boom cranes and excavators.

Fuel oil can be used in a mobile machinery while

  • working at the work site. 
  • carrying out transport due to its purpose of use at the work site.
  • carrying out transport with a work machine instead of a trailer. Maximum tank size: 2 m³
  • moving a work machine from one work site to another. 
  • transporting your own fuels and lubricants.
  • moving a work machine to maintenance or a tank, for example.

Please note! You cannot pay a daily fee for a mobile machinery or a tractor with centre pivot steering operated by means of hydraulic pressure.

When is a tractor equipped as a mobile machinery?

A tractor is considered to have been equipped as a mobile machinery when a machine or device intended to be powered by it has been connected to the tractor, such as:

  • a bulldozer blade or snow plough
  • a snowblower
  • a loader, digger, brushing device or sand spreader
  • a gritting trailer
  • a plough, drag or harrow
  • a vibrating roller
  • other similar tool
  • if the tractor is used to power e.g. a compressor, pump, mill or circular saw.

A tractor to which a trailer has been connected is not considered a tractor equipped as a mobile machinery.

With a mobile machinery, you can:

  • pick up sand into a container from a storage location and come back to continue the task of the work machine (applies to mobile machinerys with a container of 2 m³ at maximum).
  • transfer wood chips from a heap into the mouth of a shredder at the work site with a shovel loader.
  • transfer steel and iron sheets at the work site from the storage area to a hall with a shovel loader. Loading and unloading sheets are also mobile machinery tasks. You can also use a shovel loader on the site for ordinary snow removal as well as other maintenance of the site.
  • transfer stone chips coming from the crushing plant at an asphalt mixing plant into a heap of crushed stone at the work site with a shovel loader.
  • transfer (pile) snow in the work site with a shovel loader.

 

With a mobile machinery, you cannot:

  • transfer timber bundles with a shovel loader from the company’s own work site to a subcontractor’s work site partially along a public road, unless the sites form one single continuous work site.
  • transport heaps of piled snow from the work site to the snow dump. This is not a work task carried out at the work site; it means transporting snow. Transport must be carried out with another vehicle suitable for the purpose.

If you submit an application, Traficom can issue a preliminary decision on whether a vehicle can be used for a certain task with fuel oil. Preliminary decisions are subject to a fee of EUR 250. You can send a free-form written application to the address kirjaamo(at)traficom.fi or

Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom
PO Box 320
00059 TRAFICOM, FINLAND

Maksu määräytyy Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriön asetukseen Liikenne- ja viestintäviraston liikennettä koskevista maksullisista suoritteista.

A vehicle that uses a fuel that carries a lower tax rate than petrol or diesel is subject to a fuel fee payable to the State as laid down in this Act.

This Act applies to vehicles registered in Finland or in another country and unregistered vehicles used in Finland.

1280/2003Valid from: 01/01/2004

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