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.