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4Refuel: Ask the Fuel Expert Article Number 2 -Rising Fuelling Costs – Technology to the Rescue
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How many different jobs do we all do in a day?  If you’re like most managers, you wear a lot of hats. You probably manage people, resources, equipment, timelines, budgets and more. Among businesses in fleet or construction, most have general managers, human resource managers, equipment managers and fleet or operations managers; but almost none has a Fuel Manager. Perhaps not surprising, but consider that fuel is now the highest operating expense in these industries – higher than equipment and even labour.

Without effective fuel management your company is wasting thousands of dollars each month.  Fuel is just like any other expense.  It can be controlled only if it is measured, along with a number of other critical operating practices. But you need access to all that information.

The good news is that technology exists...

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