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5 Ways a Fuel Program Can Save Your Truck Fleet Money

This article first appeared in the June 2022 issue of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine. Photo: Deborah Lockridge If you buy bulk fuel, check to make sure you’re getting the best deal — and don’t forget to double-check those invoices. Decreasing the amount of fuel you use, via better miles per gallon or improving freight efficiency through routing or more efficient use of trailer space, is not the only way to save money on fuel. Taking a close look at how

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Get Your Diesel Fuel Ready for Winter with These 8 Tips

Every year the transportation industry faces new perils during the winter and this year will be no exception.  With that in mind, here are a 8 simple tips to help maintain your equipment and fuel tanks to prevent problems with diesel fuel during those challenging cold months:

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Are Your Fuel Prices Stuck on the “Sticky Down”?

Diesel fuel prices have been declining for an extended period of time and have reached some of the lowest levels we’ve seen over the past couple of years. Supply has been strong and demand has been modest so it looks like prices will remain lower for a while, at least until we see what the upcoming winter has in store for us.

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The Pump – September 2014

When it comes to fuel, improving efficiency is important, but lowering the price you are paying can have a bigger impact. There are a number of things you can change/try in order to increase efficiency within your fleet and I encourage you to look into them. These things include tires, mud flaps, side skirts, onboard computers, additives, etc. Hopefully, the companies selling these products have goals that align with yours; saving money. However, at the end of the day, you’re

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Using the Same Fuel Card for Multiple Vehicles

During an odometer audit Sokolis Group will point out transactions that have the wrong odometer reading. There are many reasons an odometer could be wrong. Sometimes it’s as simple as a typo. But what if the odometer reading is completely wrong. We have found that this is possibly a result of a driver or drivers using the same card for multiple units. It is important to keep drivers from randomly using any fuel card that is not assigned to the

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Card Management Quick-Fixes

It’s very easy to get sidetracked while multitasking and letting an unrecorded fuel card update pass by that sparks an endless string of errors in the transaction data. Sokolis Group Fuel Management is here to step in to manage a company’s fuel cards by maintaining the data to keep the reporting clean with the most current changes. Inaccurate records create inaccurate reporting, and one small slip-up could cause a lengthy process of unweaving an erroneous web stemming all the way

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Diesel Exhaust Fluids Updates

The Integer Meeting for DEF was held in Atlanta this past week on October 21st. Integer reported the 2013 North American DEF volume finishing at 215 million gallons. Truck companies are putting approximately 30,000 new SCR medium and heavy-duty trucks on the road every month in addition to the 900,000 SCR vehicles currently in operation today.

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Layup For Lower Fuel Prices

“It’s a layup for me to predict lower prices until Columbus Day weekend,” says Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst for Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). The national average for gas prices are down to $ blank until 9/30 DOE. The national average for diesel fuel prices are $blank until 9/30 DOE. Read more on diesel fuel prices click There are many reason why we are all paying less for gas at the pump. Gasoline demand always drops after Labor Day

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The Pump – September 2013

As summer comes to an official end, there are things to look forward to. For me, fall means football. There is little better than watching college football Saturday, and your favorite pro team on Sunday, and Monday, and Thursday, and so on. It also means no more vacations and a pick-up at work. Okay, so maybe there isn’t that much to look forward to!

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