Hauling gas

No way your paying 15-20 cents in freight. That's insane. Is your carrier doing split loads or small,small loads to each stop. Charging you for a full load. Read your contract should be a minimum of gallons hauled per load. Small stations here are 6500 gallon minimum load and balance (8500)of load goes to another store. Same station owner.

 

@Jtmart20
You may want to find a contract hauler to direct source from.
Main factor is where your stores are located.
If you're a long way from the racks, you may save by splitting the load between stores.
We have a client that is in a similar situation that we run one load a week to. It's an all day affair for the driver.
The stores are about 40 minutes apart, drive time, and it's almost 3 hours to get there.
Nobody wants it because there's no money in that load for the driver.
It has to go absolutely perfect to have enough time after it to pull another load to have a decent day.
That means everything fits, no traffic, no delay at the rack, no supply delay, no blocked drops.
Here's a couple things that can help you get the supply you need in a timely fashion...
Don't be a call on demand store... Let the hauler manage your deliveries.
COD puts you back of the line for deliveries behind managed stores. It lets the hauler schedule you in instead of having to shuffle to fit you in on short notice.
Run unbranded fuel. Having flexibility helps get you best pricing.
It's tough being a small player in the industry.
Pm me if you like.
Maybe I can better help you knowing particular specific info to point you in the right direction.

 

Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out what the process is for being a fuel jobber. Does anyone know what the upfront deposit would be?

 

I first am not or have any experience as a fuel jobber .I’m not sure what you mean by a deposit.A fuel jobber is basically a middle man between the fuel rack or company and customers like gas stations.A fuel jobber buy’s fuel from the racks then sells to customers.So I don’t know why a deposit would be necessary as you are paying upfront for the fuel. I think what you need is the customer to buy fuel from you

 

What was told by a fuel hauling business is that you need at least a million dollar deposit so you could pull gas under your own account. But maybe it's more like allocated funds.

 

that information could be very true. I don’t have any working knowledge of the profession I only know what it is.I would think an escrow account would make sense.Personally I think the word deposit kinda thrown me off.