The Pros and Cons of Biodiesel Fuel

It’s easy to see that alternative fuels are a thing of the future in the trucking industry. Depending on whom you ask, natural gas (CNG/LNG), propane, hydrogen, or biodiesel fuel could be the answer. Your guess is as good as mine, and I’m not writing to give you my opinion on which I believe will be the fleet fuel down

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AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report, Diesel Fuel Prices Up, Gas Prices Up

Diesel fuel prices and gas prices continue to go higher according to AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Reported today, diesel fuel prices were at $4.128 cents a gallon, compared to last week, when diesel fuel was $4.048. Last month, truckers main fleet fuel was only at $3.896. The climb is certainly on and could hurt many trucking companies.

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Oil Prices Keep Raising $100 a Barrel Next Stop

Oil prices rose on Tuesday as OPEC raised the outlook for the amount of crude it will need to pump this year to keep supply and demand in balance. Which I am still not sure if that is good that OPEC realizes it and they will produce more or bad because they will say oil is worth over $100 a

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Gas Prices Up 25 Cents in 2 Weeks

U.S. gas prices jumped nearly a 25 per gallon over the past two weeks as higher crude oil prices and refinery shutdowns drove prices upward, a nationwide survey reports.

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Fleet Manager at Times a No Win Situation

A fleet manager can make or break either big businesses or small businesses. They often have such hectic lives both inside and out of the office, they don’t even know they are making mistakes they could easily fix and save thousands.

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Fuel Management Survey Results

The Biggest Obstacle My Company Fears in 2013 is: Not Enough Good Drivers: 24.2% Economic Turnaround: 30.3% Price of Diesel Fuel: 24.4% Health Care: 12.1% Insurance Cost: 6% No Response: 3% How Many Vehicles in Your Fleet? 25-150 Vehicles: 50% 151-500 Vehicles: 18.1% 501-2000 Vehicles: 15.1% 2001 Vehicles or More: 9% Other: 6% No Response: 1.5% Do You Believe Hiring

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Gas Prices All Time High For This Time of Year

U.S. drivers are now paying more for gas prices to fill their tanks than they ever have at this time of year. I don’t know about you, I really haven’t paid that much to gas prices lately. This seems a little strange right for a guy who is a fleet fuel expert and owns the largest fuel management company in

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Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) Pricing

As we know with Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) pricing in its short life is they have had changes that have moved up and down. The pricing moves have not been as dramatic as diesel fuel prices but for a lot of fleet management companies, flat line is usually better than ups and downs.

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