Endless queues, tensions and fights… The shortage of fuel at service stations causes many difficulties for the French and in particular for professionals whose car is their work tool.
However, some professions have priority and have the right to reduce queues. At the national level, it is obviously the emergency services that are considered a priority everywhere. In addition, they usually have reserved pumps on site, which prevents them from having to go through service stations.
In general, the following are considered “priority vehicles”:
- emergency and rescue services (SAMU, firefighters, etc.);
- doctors, nurses, caregivers, pharmacists, home helpers;
- the police, the gendarmerie, the penitentiary administration, customs;
- funeral ;
- roadside assistance services;
- emergency response vehicles (Enedis, GRDF, etc.);
Each department sets its rules.
Beyond these professions, there is no national regulation in this regard, each department sets its rules.
In the Pas de Calais for example, the list of professions involved is even broader: security services, emergency services, medical personnel, VSL and hired taxis, funeral directors, ENEDIS emergency vehicles, GRDF, motorway companies and roadside assistance.
Within the Oise, on the contrary, this list is reduced to a minimum in what refers, in addition to security services, to health professionals upon presentation of evidence. Just like in the Addition when it comes only to emergency vehicles.
Within AisneThose responsible for public authority (police and gendarmerie, prison administration, justice, etc.), emergency and rescue services, medical and paramedical personnel have priority queues but from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
In the Val-d’Oise and Seine-Saint-DenisSeveral service stations have been requisitioned to facilitate access to priority vehicles: firefighters, ambulances, police, customs…
In Essonewe opted for a system of dedicated queues at about forty stations, but the device was stopped because it was “complex to implement, especially since Sunday”, the prefecture told BFM Paris Île-de-France.
the vaucluse made the same choice for the vehicles of the national and municipal police, the national gendarmerie, customs, SDIS, Samu-Smur, private ambulances, liberal and hospital doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, school transport and trash collectors
Other professions want to enter the list
Other professions ask to be included in these lists. The National Taxi Union requested this Monday priority access to all gas stations in France. In coaches, Flixbus wants its vehicles to have priority.
For its part, the Federation of Nurses requests requisitions from service stations, considering that priority queues continue to generate queues that are too long for a profession that has tight appointment times.
Source: BFM TV
