For truck drivers of Erode recharging their Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) Smartfleet cards that are used to pay for fuel has been a challenge for quite some time.
To ease this discomfort, Fino Payments Bank in association with BPCL started a facility a few kilometers from the city near Perundurai on Monday. Truck drivers can get the fleet cards recharged by paying equivalent cash at the bank’s point without any hassles. The new facility was inaugurated by S. Sruti, Fleet Sales Officer (Coimbatore region), BPCL.
The digitized cash in the form of prepaid fleet cards allows drivers to make payments for fuel at BPCL outlets. Also, the service completely frees BPCL from handling the cash given by the truck drivers.
Sruti, said that the exclusive centre facilitates hassle free and instant recharge for Smartfleet customers. She conveyed that 4.5 lakhs+ transporters across Tamil Nadu are using Smartfleet as on date. She said “We expect a daily recharge of over Rs.35 lakhs at this point with average recharge value of around Rs 2000.”
Biswajeet Sinha, Senior Divisional Head, Fino Payments Bank (South) said, that in future the bank will provide this service across all the 700 plus outlets of BPCL across Tamil Nadu.”