With rising diesel prices, the cost of fuel services can take a big bite out of your budget. Automakers are diligently working to design trucks and other vehicles with better fuel economy to help save you money on fleet management fuel services. Ultimately, designing more fuel efficient trucks is the best solution to high diesel costs, but this is a long-term solution.

How can you save on fleet management fuel services for the fleet of trucks you currently have on the road? Alternative fuel services, mobile fleet fuel products and trucking fuel service cards are just a few methods fleet owners and other businesses in the trucking industry are using to reduce fuel costs.

Consider the following tips to help you save on the cost of fleet mgmt fuel services:

1. Implement a process to track current fuel usage.

2. Use prepaid cards to purchase fuel services.

3. Purchase the lowest-priced fleet fuel products

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Use fuel services software to efficiently track costs of fuel services

With soaring diesel prices, you will need to track every penny spent on fuel service for trucking. Many companies offer software to help you effortlessly monitor your costs for fuel services for fleet and easily identify areas in which you can cut costs.

I recommend: Truckbytes offers downloadable software to help fleet owners monitor IFTA fuel tax. ProMiles Software Development is a leading provider of professional truck routing, mileage, fuel tax reporting and fuel management software.

Save money with trucking fuel service cards

Fleet diesel service cards allow you to monitor fuel services costs through prepaid accounts. Fuel service card providers offer a range of fleet reporting, fleet card and asset tracking services for your business.

I recommend: Multi Service offers a trucking fuel card and other fleet fuel services for fleet such as usage tracking and 24-hour customer support. FleetLegal Solutions offers the MoreTrucking Fuel Card designed to help trucking companies minimize fuel costs.

Get the best price on fleet management fuel services

Mobile fleet diesel service and alternative fuel services can help you save on fuel services costs. Alternative fuel services help to improve the performance of your trucks which in turn decreases fuel costs by increasing gas mileage. Mobile fleet diesel service firms provide onsite fueling stations to fuel your trucks during downtimes which increases productivity so that your drivers are spending peak driving hours making deliveries instead of fueling.

I recommend: NanoTech offers eeFuel, a fuel injection service designed to improve truck performance, increase mileage and thus decrease the cost of trucking fuel service. 4Refuel offers various fleet fuel services including onsite delivery, fuel logistics, automated fleet management and biodiesel.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Check out Internet diesel price listings to locate the best prices for fleet fuel services in your immediate area or on your drivers' dispatched routes.