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FUEL CUBES ·  PORTABLE TANK RENTAL · ULC-LISTED

Fuel cube and portable tank rental for southwestern Ontario.

We drop a ULC-listed double-walled cube on the site, refill it on a cadence built around the burn, and pick it up at job end. Standing-route bulk delivery into the cube across nine southwestern Ontario counties. Coloured diesel for off-road equipment, clear for the service truck if you need it, certification documents and Ministry-issued labels on at install.

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01 / WHERE A CUBE FITS

There are four ways to put fuel on a site.

A rented fuel cube refilled by bulk delivery versus on-site refuelling, a stationary yard tank, or cardlock for the service truck. Each is the right answer for a different shape of operation, and the shape of yours usually tells you which to pick.

A cube is the right call

  • Single-site project with daily diesel needs and equipment the operator can pull up to the cube
  • Sub-trade running portable equipment — skid steers, small loaders, light towers, compactors — that fuels off one cube
  • Short-duration project under about six months — no point installing permanent fuel infrastructure for a job that wraps in a year
  • Daily site burn in the low hundreds of litres — a cube refilled weekly handles it cleanly
  • A multi-site GC running secondary sites where the heavy equipment isn’t — cubes at the satellites, on-site refuelling on the main yard
  • Temporary or transitional storage — a permanent tank being replaced, a remote parcel without infrastructure, emergency capacity for a peak window
  • The crew can manage the pumping and you’d rather not pay for dispensing labour on every fill

Something else fits better

  • Six or more pieces of equipment fuelling daily — the per-piece pumping labour adds up, and on-site refuelling pays it back
  • Hard-to-move or high-value equipment positioned for a phase — cranes, large excavators, gensets sitting where they need to sit through a pour
  • No secure spot on the site for a cube — no room for setbacks, no controllable access during the work day
  • A long-running single yard with a heavy daily burn — a certified stationary tank on bulk-into-tank is the cheapest per litre once you’re at that scale
  • A small fleet of plated trucks with no off-road equipment — cardlock is the simpler answer

SOURCE · CAN/ULC-S601 · CSA B621 / B626 · ONTARIO FIRE CODE O. REG. 213/07, PART 4 · KB DECISION FRAMEWORK

02 / THE COMPLIANCE SHAPE

For the duration of the job, the cube is your tank on your site.

SOURCECAN/ULC-S601 · Aboveground steel tanks
CSA B621 / B626 · Transport Canada portable-tank rules
Ontario Fire Code O. Reg. 213/07, Part 4
Fuel Tax Act s. 2(7.1) · R.R.O. 1990 Reg. 464
CFA Colour-Symbol System · Fire Code s. 4.3.1.7

Tank certification

The cube is built to CAN/ULC-S601 — the standard for shop-fabricated aboveground steel tanks holding flammable and combustible liquids. Double-wall construction gives the cube its own spill envelope. When the cube is moved on the road with fuel inside, CSA B621/B626 governs the transport portion under the Transport Canada portable-tank rules.

What runs through it

Coloured (dyed) diesel for unlicensed off-road equipment — excavators, dozers, light towers, compactors, gensets. Clear diesel for anything carrying a plate under the Highway Traffic Act. The bright-line rule is Fuel Tax Act s. 2(7.1); the implementing regulation is R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 464. A cube storing coloured carries the Ministry-issued labels and tags and shows the red CFA Colour-Symbol band; clear shows white.

Site responsibility

Once the cube is in service, the site operator is in the position of an on-site fuel storage operator. The Ontario Fire Code, Part 4 governs siting — setbacks from buildings, property lines, ignition sources, and watercourses, and secondary containment where the Code prescribes it for the volume on hand. We handle the delivery and the refills under TDG; a spill from the cube once it’s on the pad falls to the site operator under the EPA. Your rep walks through the siting with you on install.

Cube sizes

Common sizes are 1,000 L, 2,000 L, 5,000 L, and 10,000 L double-walled cubes (Western Global TransCube and equivalent ULC-S601 units). The right size follows the daily burn and the refill cadence the site can sustain — a 2,000 L on weekly refill is the most common single-site setup; a 10,000 L on weekly refill covers a heavier site or a longer interval between trucks.

03 / HOW WE HANDLE IT

Drop, refill, pick up — with the paperwork handled.

One rep on the account year-round. The cube delivered on day one, refilled on the cadence that matches the burn, picked up at the end of the job. The rest, below.

  • Drop and certify

    We deliver the cube to the site on day one and place it where your site super wants it. The CAN/ULC-S601 certification documents land with the install, the Ministry-issued labels and tags go on the cube, and your rep walks through the siting against the Fire Code with whoever is going to live with it. The cube is in service as soon as the first refill goes in.

  • Refill on cadence or on-call

    Most cubes settle into a refill cadence built around the burn — weekly is the common rhythm, mid-week and end-of-week on a busier site. When the burn shifts — a phase change, a pour week, a long cold stretch — the cadence steps up. The same dispatch line answers, day or night, for the unscheduled top-up that has to land before first shift.

  • One supplier, both colours

    Coloured for the off-road equipment, clear for the service truck and pickups that need to keep their plates clean. We can run coloured and clear out of separate cubes on the same site, or run a single cube for the equipment and a cardlock card for the trucks. Whichever shape fits the work, both colours come from the same supplier on one account.

  • Off the pad at job end

    When the project wraps, we collect the cube. Closing inspection of the install, residual fuel reconciled to the account, the pad cleared. No leftover cube the next sub-trade has to work around, no paperwork still hanging.

TANK + DISPENSING · CAN/ULC-S601 · CSA B621 / B626
COLOURED VS CLEAR · FUEL TAX ACT S. 2(7.1) · R.R.O. 1990 REG. 464
SITE IDENTIFICATION · ONTARIO FIRE CODE O. REG. 213/07 S. 4.3.1.7 · CFA COLOUR-SYMBOL SYSTEM

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04 / BY INDUSTRY

Three shapes a cube fits.

Cubes show up most often on construction, but the same service handles temporary storage in ag, industrial maintenance, and any situation where permanent infrastructure isn’t the right answer.

  • CONSTRUCTION · SUB-TRADE / SINGLE SITE

    On the construction site

    Excavation, paving, concrete, light-civil work. The equipment moves between sites week to week, but on a given site the cube sits in one place and feeds the crew. Single-site builders and sub-trades with portable equipment are the common shapes — 2,000 L on weekly refill is the median setup.

    • Equipment mix
      Coloured for off-road, clear for service truck
    • Project length
      Months, not years
    • Typical setup
      2,000 L on weekly refill
    Fuel cube & tank rental for construction
  • CONSTRUCTION · MULTI-SITE GC

    Across multiple secondary sites

    A multi-site GC running on-site refuelling on the main yard with the heavy equipment, and cubes at the secondary sites where the sub-trades work. One supplier, one account, one rep across the whole project portfolio. Multi-site billing rolls into a single statement; per-site allocation runs as the cost-coding requires.

    • Equipment mix
      Cubes for portable equipment; on-site for the heavy
    • Cadence
      Site-specific, set by per-site burn
    • Best when
      Two or more concurrent sites
    Construction overview
  • AGRICULTURE · TEMPORARY · INDUSTRIAL

    Temporary and transitional storage

    A permanent tank being replaced and the operation can’t go without coloured for a week. A satellite parcel without permanent fuel infrastructure. An industrial maintenance project with a finite window. The cube is the bridging answer — full ULC certification, no tank purchase, off the pad when the work is done.

    • Typical use
      Tank replacement gap · remote parcels · short-term industrial
    • Cadence
      Sized to the bridging window, not the calendar
    • Best when
      Permanent infrastructure isn’t the right answer right now
05 / FAQ

Practical questions.

01What size cube do we need?
It comes down to two questions: how many litres a day the operation burns, and how often the cube can be refilled. A 1,000 L cube refilled weekly handles a small sub-trade with a piece or two of portable equipment. A 2,000 L cube on the same cadence is the most common setup for a single-site project with a few units fuelling daily. The larger sizes — 5,000 L and 10,000 L — come into play when the daily burn is heavy enough that a smaller cube would need multiple refills a week. Your rep needs the equipment list and the rough daily hours to size it; they work backward to a cube and a cadence in one conversation.CAN/ULC-S601 · KB DECISION FRAMEWORK
02Can we run coloured diesel in our service truck or pickup from the cube?
No. The Fuel Tax Act rule is the same on the job site as it is on the road — anything carrying a plate under the Highway Traffic Act runs on clear. The service truck, the crew pickup, the foreman’s truck — clear. The coloured cube on the site is for the off-road equipment. The truck refuels at a cardlock, or off a separate clear cube. The rule isn’t about where the fuel is sitting; it’s about what’s drinking it.FUEL TAX ACT S. 2(7.1) · R.R.O. 1990 REG. 464
03Who is responsible if there is a spill from the cube?
On a delivery into the cube, the spill is ours — our driver leads the response and contains it with the TDG-prescribed kit on the truck. Once the cube is in service on your site, the cube is your tank — a leak from the cube while it’s sitting, or a spill during the crew’s pumping into a piece of equipment, falls to the site operator under the EPA. The cube’s double-wall construction is the first line of containment; the Code’s siting rules cover the rest. Your rep walks through the siting against the Fire Code with you on install.ONTARIO FIRE CODE O. REG. 213/07 PART 4 · EPA PART X
04Can the cube stay on the site over the winter shutdown?
Yes. The cube doesn’t need to come off the pad for the season. Keep it locked, treat the fuel inside with cold-flow improver for a southwestern Ontario winter, and have someone check the cube every couple of weeks for the obvious things — visible leaks, the secondary cavity, the lock. We can run the cold-treatment as part of the standing refill and schedule a top-up before the shutdown so the crew comes back to a cube that’s ready to work.CAN/CGSB-3.517 · WINTER DIESEL BLEND
05What happens if we run out at 2 a.m. before a 6 a.m. pour or harvest?
The dispatch line answers at 2 a.m. — that’s what the after-hours line is for. The truck rolls as soon as the call comes in. The variable in a four-hour window is whether the road and weather will let a tanker through at that hour; the rest is logistics we already know how to run. The way most accounts avoid the 2 a.m. call in the first place is a cadence with enough slack that a heavier-than-usual day doesn’t run a cube dry. That’s the conversation when the account is set up, and again whenever a phase change or seasonal shift moves the burn.AFTER-HOURS DISPATCH
06Can a cube replace a permanent tank during a replacement?
Yes — that’s a common bridging use. When a permanent tank is being removed for replacement or relocated for a build, a cube on the pad for the duration covers the operation’s coloured-diesel needs without interruption. The cube comes off when the new permanent tank is in service. Same ULC certification, same labels, same Ministry compliance — just on a rental footing.CAN/ULC-S601 · O. REG. 213/07
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Talk to dispatch about a cube for your site.

Tell us about the equipment, the daily burn, the project length, and where the cube needs to sit. We’ll size the cube and the cadence, walk through the siting against the Fire Code, and sort coloured, clear, and (if Tier 4 equipment is on-site) DEF on the same conversation.

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05 / COVERAGE ·  SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO · 9 REGIONS

Across southwestern Ontario, by named rep.

Standing routes across nine regions. Same rep year-round; off-hours emergency dispatch through the same number.

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