NSW, Queensland and Victorian motorists are being urged to remain patient with patchy petrol supplies amid an interstate crackdown on a transport company.
More than 80 Cootes Transport vehicles have been grounded in NSW and Victoria after one tanker's fiery crash on Sydney's northern beaches killed two motorists.
In a massive audit of the Cootes Transport fleet, authorities have grounded 10 vehicles in NSW and 73 in Victoria.
A VicRoads spokeswoman said six vehicles previously grounded had been cleared for operation.
With the vehicles off the road, service stations are juggling petrol shortages.
Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association (ACAPMA) chief executive Nic Moulis said Melbourne would be the worst city hit and Queensland second but Sydney would not be as bad.
However, Colin Long of the NSW Service Station Association said a BP service station near Sydney Airport was running "very, very low" on Tuesday.
"This is an absolutely unprecedented situation," he told AAP on Wednesday.
"There will be pockets of service stations that will be out of some product."
Mr Long expects fuel deliveries to return to normal by next week.
Shell is increasing fuel deliveries to service stations across Australia, but said only Victoria, Adelaide and southeast Queensland will be affected.
The number of fuel tankers available to supply 7-Eleven's NSW stores is back to normal and tankers supplying fuel to Queensland service stations were expected to be available by Friday morning.
The company's Victoria stores are not impacted, a spokesperson said.
Amid the safety review, Cootes's parent company McAleese has also voluntarily pulled out of the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme.
The move means a Cootes truck registered in a particular state will be subject to that state's inspection requirements.
A NSW Roads and Maritime Services spokeswoman said in NSW, that meant annual inspections.
NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay has requested a review of the national scheme, as NSW is the "through state" for trucks travelling in Australia's eastern seaboard.
"We have the safest fleet in the country but we have trucks crossing our borders that do not have to be inspected annually in NSW," he said.
Mr Gay has written to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator asking for a review of the scheme and its effectiveness.
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