With Mobil Delvac™ lubricants, we are committed to providing quality products and services to customers across the country — an effort made much easier, and more efficient, by the company’s incredible network of distributors. One such distributor is Indiana-based General Petroleum, Inc. (GPI), which sells Mobil Industrial Lubricants, Mobil Delvac™ lubricants, Mobil SHC™ and Mobil 1™ lubricants and antifreezes throughout the Midwest.

GPI has recently started working with Indianapolis-based U.S. Aggregates, which sells rock aggregates used in a wide variety of building products for the construction and infrastructure space. When GPI initially connected Mobil Lubricants with U.S. Aggregates, the customer was operating their quarry machinery with more than 13 varieties of grease, nearly all of which were from different vendors. After collecting data, Mobil Lubricants and GPI were able to suggest consolidations that would allow U.S. Aggregates to manage only four greases — thereby helping the customer lower costs and the chance of incorrect grease usage.

Mobil Lubricant’s relationship with U.S. Aggregates didn’t end there, though. The customer voiced concerns about how often their maintenance teams needed to change their machinery’s engine oil, so Mobil Lubricants offered a potential solution in the form of the “Double your Drain” (DYD) challenge. The Challenge promises to double the length of time between oil drains for participating customers when they trial one of Mobil Lubricants’ recently launched engine oils for the off-highway sector – or their money back¹.

Based on U.S. Aggregates’ needs, Mobil Lubricants engineers recommended that they trial Mobil Delvac™ Modern, a premium synthetic blend that is specifically designed for the extreme conditions and heavy loads that off-highway machines typically have to handle. Both Mobil Delvac™ Modern and Mobil Delvac™ Ultra, an advanced full synthetic oil also eligible for the DYD promotion, are formulated with higher-quality base oils that can better protect against the viscosity bleed that most off-highway engines experience while operating. Mobil Lubricants recommended Mobil Delvac™ Modern to take U.S. Aggregates from 500-hour drains to 1,000-hour drains.

Other key benefits include:

•  Lower operating costs

•  Fewer oil changes can translate to less money spent on operations.

•  Higher fleet uptime

•  Mobil Delvac™ Modern and Mobil Delvac™ Ultra have 40% and 45% reductions in wear, respectively, compared to standard products.

•  Increased sustainability 

•  Less oil consumption can help reduce waste oil generated.

•  Reduced risk and safer operations

•  Fewer oil drains help decrease both the number of people needed onsite and how often people interact with equipment.

From the outset, GPI has been instrumental in establishing a healthy line of communication between Mobil and U.S. Aggregates and has assisted with everything from coordinating orders and meetings to providing the materials needed to transition to Mobil Lubricants products. GPI has also set up U.S. Aggregates with the Mobil oil analysis program and has been diligently tracking the results. Ultimately, GPI’s work illustrates just how important distributors can be when it comes to facilitating relationships with customers.

If you’re interested in trying out the Double Your Drain challenge yourself, click here to learn more.

¹Qualifying fleets that are accepted by Mobil into the promotion will be supported to double their oil drain interval for qualifying equipment, up to maximum of 2,000 hours. Terms and conditions apply. Contact your local Mobil distributor for additional details.

^*This Proof of Performance is based on the experience of a single customer. Actual results can vary depending upon the type of equipment used and its maintenance, operating conditions and environment, and any prior lubricant used