Mileage, compliance, and the business of running trucks

The pump price is only one of three things that decide what a gallon costs you. IFTA, the FedEx fuel supplement and your miles per gallon, with worked numbers.

Price per gallon is what you see; cost per mile is what you pay. Miles per gallon, the fuel surcharge and IFTA fuel tax, worked out with real numbers.

The trip-by-trip record behind your IFTA return — and the document an auditor asks to see when they want your mileage totals proved rather than stated.

The KIs moved from supervisor behaviours to driver behaviours. What each one allows per tractor per month, and a six-step guide to staying under it.

Events linked to the driver who was behind the wheel, a text with the footage while it is still fresh, and a coaching record that stands up at grading.

Miles can be reconstructed after the fact. Give us the trips — truck, date, origin, destination — and the reports come out the other side.

Base plates, apportioned plates, and how the fees are worked out from the share of miles you run in each jurisdiction.