IFTA and Lease Operators

The price you are seeing is the cash and credit card prices. Comdata is the same as cash.

You should be getting a good sized discount with Swift, atleast 10 cents off the price. If not, then they are making money off your fuel purchases. Paying cash would screw them out of their/your money...

Also, that .34 cents is a write off.

 

i have to ask a question first here.

when i was at swift if the load i was under on wednesday didn't drop or tcall till thursday or friday it wouldn't matter if i fueled on wednesday cause the fuel went with the trip no the day..



if not under dispatch it went with the day but either way..

is this not the same now??

on another note fueling for the week makes sense as does fueling for home..
coming out of the house empty and usually in the red why would you want to put $500 in fuel right away that doesn't add up to me

 

if you are in an area of oregon that borders another state, you will notice that the price of fuel is only a few cents lower the bordering states but has no tax on the fuel so you are paying for the fuel and not getting any tax benefits from it

a few weeks back Jubitz in portland was $3.89 a gallon while just 54 miles up the road theres a small truckstop which takes all the fuel cards, was $3.93 a gallon but i get the washington fuel tax with that price so it just doesn't make sense to stop in portland

i can see if you didn't plan on it and you used for fuel then you thought you may have to get fuel their but i would only get enough to get out never fill up..

 

You can fuel anywhere that takes Comdata. The ma and pa shops are where you can do some bargin hunting for fuel.

Why use your cash, the comdata fee is only .34 for each transaction at the pump. Remember you are paying your taxes at the pump. Go off the books and you will be buying yourself a book keeping headache. You will have to keep all your receipts, make copies and send them in to Swift every month to square up your IFTA taxes.

 

As what was said.... Keep using Swift's fuel card. You get massive un published fuel discounts with it. The cash/credit price are for those individuals who do not have a fuel card program....

I'm not sure what Swift's discounts are.... But they should be published somewhere to where you can view them. To give you an example of discounts, I'll show you a couple of my carrier's discount locations....

OKLAHOMA CITY TA EXIT 140... Cash price today is $3.879 My price is $3.61.

KNOXVILLE TA EXIT 374... Cash price today is $3.829 My price is $3.62.
(The TA at exit 369 doesn't give us a discount. To fuel there I would have to pay cash price of $3.799... For fuel 18 cents cheaper, I'd drive the extra 5 miles.... Even if it means going out of my way)


ONTARIO MILLIKEN ROAD... Bothe east & west have a cash price of $4.399 today. My price at both is $4.17.

Now those are just a few examples to show you the unpublished prices... Swift is a carrier of 13,000 trucks & should get the same discounts if not a greater discount because of their size. But in able to take advantage of the cheaper discounted fuel, you have to use your carrier's fuel card. Other wise you'll be paying $4.399 a gallon of fuel with cash versus $4.17 a gallon with the card.

Which one is going to save you money?

Not only that.... But it prevents your fuel from getting stolen.... If & only if you fuel & pretrip before you start driving. With rising fuel prices, do not fuel then shut down. A theif could get all your fuel while your sleeping.

 

Please explain. I think I know what you mean, but when I asked my DM about this he said it was big no no.

 

your DM don't have your back with making it work...

what you do it tcall it to get the miles you have run on the load paid to you then get it replaned and dispatched back on you... some DM's won't do it but the ones that want to help you and are on your side will