Q8Truck stations: the network that used to be IDS
On 2 June 2025, International Diesel Service became Q8Truck. Same stations, same cards, new name: the network moved under the Q8 brand of its parent, Kuwait Petroleum International, forty years after it opened its first truck-specific sites in 1985. Today it lists 1,200+ automated stations in 27 European countries, sited at border crossings, major junctions and freight hubs. This page covers what the rename changed, the fuels on offer, what the card controls, and how Jornee ranks these stops by added detour time on your route.
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Q8Truck at a glance
If you know the network, you know it as IDS. International Diesel Service opened its first truck-specific stations in 1985 and kept that name for forty years, until a rebrand on 2 June 2025 folded it into the Q8 brand its parent, Kuwait Petroleum International, already runs across Europe. Nothing about the forecourt changed: the stations stay automated, truck-only and open around the clock, sited where freight actually crosses, at frontiers, major junctions and transport and trading hubs. Pumps are high-flow, lanes are wide enough not to have to shunt, and the terminals carry multilingual instructions because the driver at 3am may not read the local language.
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Diesel, HVO100 and gas
The pump list is built around long-haul diesel rather than a spread of alternative fuels. Heavy-duty diesel and AdBlue are the backbone; red diesel is available where national rules still allow it. HVO100 is on the network and Q8Truck has said it wants to widen that coverage, so treat it as a per-station check rather than something you can assume on a corridor. Natural gas, LNG and CNG, is offered at selected sites. Electric truck charging is not a network service yet: it is being piloted in Scandinavia, and the company has published neither a charger count nor a rollout date.
| Energy | Availability |
|---|---|
| Heavy-duty diesel + AdBlue | Network-wide |
| Red diesel | Where nationally permitted |
| HVO100 | Selected stations, expanding |
| LNG / CNG | Selected stations |
| Truck charging | Scandinavian pilot only |
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What the card does, and what it stops
The Q8Truck card is a contactless RFID chip with a PIN, and the security story is the part worth reading if you run a fleet. Every transaction is authorised online in real time against the account, so a card that has been stopped is dead at the pump rather than dead at the next invoice. Cards can be blocked instantly, and so can individual sites or whole countries, which is the control you want the hour a trailer goes missing rather than the week after. Stations carry CCTV. Day to day the account runs through iAccount, where limits, vehicles and transactions live. Tolls, parking and financial services sit alongside the card rather than on it: a toll-payment product Q8Truck says covers the European network, parking at secured locations, and VAT and excise recovery run with partner BH International, including net-of-VAT invoicing through NOVI. Which of those apply depends on the countries you run, so confirm coverage with Q8Truck before you plan a route or a cash-flow assumption around them.
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Where Q8Truck sits on your corridor
The siting logic is the useful thing to plan around: these stations went in at border crossings and freight junctions, not in town. That is a good fit for a long run and a poor fit for an improvised detour, because the nearest one may be an exit you already passed. Jornee answers that in detour minutes rather than straight-line distance, so a station four kilometres away on the wrong side of a junction reads as what it costs you. Fuel stops show alongside the truck parking, showers and secured-parking options around them, which is usually the same decision.
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One app, four driving modes: you pick, Jornee filters.
Switch between car, HGV, motorbike or EV. The map only shows stops that physically fit your vehicle: HGV-rated services, EV chargers with the right connector, height and weight restrictions baked in.
- Car
- EV · 350 kW
- Motorbike
- HGV