14,000 drive-throughs

Petrol station operators report over 27,000 fuel theft cases to SODA by 2025

Pomphouders hebben dit jaar bij SODA, de ServiceOrganisatie Directe Aansprakelijkstelling, 27.123 keer een melding gedaan van brandstofdiefstal.
Door de stijgende brandstofprijzen aan de pomp, krijgen steeds meer tankstationondernemers te maken met brandstofdiefstal. Foto: Shutterstock, 2025

Pump owners have reported fuel theft to SODA, the Direct Liability Service Organisation, 27,123 times this year. More than 14,000 times involved so-called ‘drive-throughs’, motorists who fill up the tank at the pump and then drive off without paying.

With rising fuel prices, more and more petrol station operators in the Netherlands are facing fuel theft. SODA received over 27,000 reports in 2025. According to the service organisation, petrol station owners were confronted 709 times this year with non-paying customers using fake number plates and SODA’s affiliated petrol station entrepreneurs faced 526 cases of PIN breakdowns resulting in payments not being settled, intentionally or unintentionally. SODA managed to recover €2 million worth of damages from perpetrators over 2025, doubling from last year, according to the service organisation.

Challenges

According to the organisation, the latest figures give “a clear picture” of the challenges faced by pump owners facing fuel theft. As such, the company says it will continue to work with the industry and security companies on ‘an effective approach and prevention’.

SODA specialises in damages recovery through civil law and, in an existing service, supports petrol station operators in recovering damages arising after fuel theft. The organisation is supervised by DAAD, the direct liability to offenders foundation. DAAD monitors the quality of organisations that implement damages recovery from perpetrators of criminal behaviour.

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Paul Blonk

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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