Believe it or not, some people feel that diesel fuel trucks could be overtaken by gas trucks. Ok, let’s get into some of the details of this and what kinds of gas trucks might displace diesel fuel trucks. This idea relates mostly to the medium duty or smaller duty fleet management companies.... Read More

Everyone always thinks they are doing it correctly or they at least want to do the right thing. The problem is your time or your employee’s time is stretched, when people are stretched things fall through the crack. With informational data from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Energy, we will show you where companies 7 Deadly Mistakes happen in fleet fueling. Don’t let them happen to you. Your company deserves better with its fleet fuel card information.... Read More

When it comes to one of your largest expenses, fleet fuel for your trucks - diesel fuel is has hard to predict as almost anything in 2012. The Department of Energy national price was as low as $3.648 in July and went as high as $4.15 in October. That is a 51-cent swing per gallon for diesel fuel prices and if you looked at the whole years chart, it basically made that kind of swing twice.... Read More

Diesel fuel prices will average $3.96 this year, the Department of Energy said, boosting its most recent forecast by 12 cents on projected higher crude oil prices.

Diesel fuel will decline next year to an average $3.73, DOE said in its most recent short-term energy outlook, released this week. That’s also up 11 cents from last month’s report.... Read More

When we watch gasoline prices climb steadily higher, some of us are stunned to see how high diesel fuel prices are going, especially, when most of us are in the transportation section and most of our fleet fuel comes from diesel fuel. The U.S. average today for unleaded regular gas is $3.83 per gallon and for diesel fuel prices is $4.12. It makes a lot of people ask why are diesel fuel prices so high.... Read More

Summer temperatures have been hitting all-time highs over the past couple of years. The outbreaks of food poisoning have followed that trend right along. A recent report by Today’s Rossen Report claims that some refrigerated trucking companies and their drivers are at fault.... Read More

Well, not all fuel cards will be in a “cloud” and although the “cloud” might be a little bit off, it’s close. Comdata has come out with a fuel card where you actually don’t need the physical card to get diesel fuel. The card-less transactions use an RFID tag to automate the fueling process, which should decrease the amount of time drivers spend at the fleet fueling island. More importantly, this should reduce the risk of fraudulent transactions by shutting off the pump when the truck pulls away.... Read More

Diesel fuel prices looked reasonable a couple of weeks ago, for that matter so did gas prices. DOE diesel fuel prices were around $3.64 a gallon and looked like they would go lower still. What has changed not a lot really from 4 weeks ago when fleet fuel prices were lower. The best way to say it would be to say the little things have changed. Oil companies usually start to ramp up storage of diesel fuel in May. Since the diesel fuel prices in May were low they delayed doing so in case the market went lower.... Read More

Hurricanes and tornadoes have been a regular focus on multiple occasions due to the magnitude of damage often produced, but more importantly the lack of preparedness many municipalities and facilities have for these events. Anytime a major storm or natural disaster strikes, you can be sure it will disturb the diesel fuel supply chain and fleet and fleet fueling prices will go higher. Increased diesel fuel prices under these types of conditions might be out of your control but often getting fuel supply is in your control.... Read More

Fuel is the number one variable cost that presents the biggest challenge for leaders in the transportation industry because it’s directly impacted by the laws of supply and demand as well as ramifications from global political events. In short, it’s the most variable of variable costs. As such, when the U.S. Economy picks up steam transportation volume increases and fuel prices are usually ahead of the curve.... Read More