

PTL, a leading irregular-route carrier, has realized significant annual savings with detailed daily wholesale and retail pricing feeds to identify and implement best-cost fueling plans for each vehicle.Įxpert Fuel has also given the carrier additional negotiating leverage with regional and national fuel vendors. With Expert Fuel PTL can easily download local pricing every day to make sure their drivers are purchasing fuel at the lowest available price. With nearly 1,700 power units, even a few cents per gallon could make all the difference in fuel purchase management even when prices are low.Įnter Expert Fuel from Trimble Transportation.

The company management needed a way to access local prices to confirm that they were really saving money on a daily basis. The approach did not account for the significant daily local variances in wholesale and retail fuel costs. In business for more than 70 years, Kentucky-based Paschall Truck Lines (PTL) relied on local intelligence combined with negotiated discounts to create a static map of approved fuel stops within each lane.
