Fuel Card Companies for small trucking companies?

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Quality Plus Network | NASTC - Fuel & Maintenance

 

QuickQ is what my company just switched to from ComData. These fuel card companies must change different rates for different people. When I was at Landstar and had my own truck Landstar gave us ComData and it was very cheep. We only paid $1.50 to load fuel money onto the card for each load we did. We got the Price+ discount at TA and Petro. That was the same price the truck stop paid at the rack. Plus we paid 3 or 4 cents per gallon for every gallon we pumped at truck stop.

This QuickQ seems to have very good discounts. I can see the price my company is paying because they show is the price on tables in truck and like us to buy the cheapest fuel.

We also have the RFID tags in windshield. When we pull up to fuel it reads the RFID tag and turns fuel pump on. We just swipe driver rewards card and put in driver ID and fuel and go. No need to go inside truck stop

 

Just something for you to think about. You’re small like me and probably deal with the same price issues I do. I don’t have a supplier name to drop on you, but I do have something I’ll share that you might want to think about before you shop for one. I operate 7 trucks but my volumes just aren’t high enough to give me any sort of meaningful discount with my current supplier. What I’m looking into now is to partner up with 2 of my buds and run all 3 fleets on 1 fuel account. We buy yard fuel together 20,000L at a time and get pricing on those purchases. Those two are farmers and have diked tanks in their yards and I have an old tanker pup behind the shop. We have the 3 Amigos tire solution. We jointly buy tires a container at a time. Just starting to look into applying the same principle to our over the road fuel. Our combined volumes should give us better pricing than we get as individuals. We’re looking at that now. The farm boys already knew how co-ops work when I first pitched this to them years ago, didn’t take much convincing. We’ve saved ourselves a lot of money this way over the years. I know I didn’t help with your immediate supplier problem, but I hope I gave you an idea toward saving yourself some bucks other places. Not that it isn’t at any time, but I think for the next while every nickel and dime we can hang onto is going to be even more important.

 

NASTC

National Association of Small Trucking Companies

For the win.

 

NASTC, TCS or RTS (they have a new discount program for Pilot/Flying J that make the same discounts like NASTC for TA/Petro).

 

If you’re setup with Amazon, you can get their cost plus program on a Comdata card. Cost plus is where the real discounts are, it’s what NASTC, Landstar, TCS offers. The Amazon deal gives you .30+ off at Loves as well.

 

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