Simard Gas & Oil Co

Simard Gas & Oil is the kind of fuel company people stay with for a decade and only get around to reviewing later. Its Google page sits at 4.8 across 36 ratings, and the recurring thread isn't a dramatic rescue — it's that the truck shows up, the price is fair, and the same people answer the phone. The company works out of 53 Florence Avenue in Haverhill and says it started there in 1939 as a family-owned propane and heating oil supplier, still family owned and operated. What it sells is fuel and the hardware around it: automatic and emergency delivery to aboveground and underground tanks, pre-buy plans, propane tank and appliance installation, and grill-cylinder refills at the office. Its stated service area runs across northeastern Massachusetts — Haverhill, Bradford, West Newbury, Boxford, West Boxford, Georgetown, Merrimac, Groveland, Methuen — and into southern New Hampshire towns including Plaistow, Atkinson, Sandown, Danville, Hampstead and East Hampstead. The review history is shallow in count but long in span: 14 reviews stretching from 2021 to 2026 across three sources, none of them negative. A homeowner writing in February said they've come back to Simard every year since closing on their house nine years earlier, called the pricing fair, had never had a delivery problem, and singled out a staffer named Dave. Another recent note is barely a sentence — someone getting a grill tank filled and going on with their weekend, which is roughly the point of the counter service. What's worth knowing before you call is what the company itself puts front and center: this is a supplier, not a 24/7 service outfit. The website lists separate emergency numbers for propane and heating oil, and it limits those lines to October through April; emergency burner service and oil burner cleanings are pointed to an outside contractor entirely. If you want one number that covers both the fuel and the equipment year-round, ask how that's handled before you sign up for automatic delivery. Simard suits a homeowner in the Haverhill area who wants a small, long-established local supplier for propane or oil and values talking to a person over a portal. Confirm the current delivery schedule and which pre-buy or budget plan you're on, and clarify who to call for burner work outside the heating season.