NASTC Membership question

Hey all,

Seems like NASTC offers significant discounts on fuel, but they made if very complicated to sign up with them especially for fuel program. They want you to attend one of their seminars as an option 1 or as option 2 you have to enroll in their MSP Program. Anyone went with 2nd option? Got anything useful out of it? seems like with all the fees that you have to pay for MSP program etc, you mind as well use regular fuel card with standard discounts. Thanks.

 

I am a lease operator so I was able to bypass that part. I am trying to get our company to sign up for the program but he would have to attend the class. My understanding is that you don't have actually sign up for any of there other programs to qualify for the fuel program though. I save about $400 a month with the card on 1 truck. He has 5 trucks where he just uses a discover cards. Seems like it would be worth the 1 day seminar to me? But what do I know?

 

I'm a 1 man operation. I pay for my fuel as I go using smaller non-branded mom and pop type stations. What I pay is cheaper than what you can get with NSTC fuel card and certainly cheaper than those fuel "discount" cards. However, I run the same lanes and know exactly where to go.

 

If you are leased to company, you dont have attend the seminar.

 

I still fuel at a couple of mom and pops close to the house that have great pricing but, when I'm out running it is way better to have the nastic card available. I only have 100 gallon tanks so I usaly fuel every day when I'm out. I find the local mom and popis competitive to nastic at a petro. I don't have the hours to try and find the best pricing in some little town I have never been to before. Lol

 

Its really not complicated at all. I took a load close to their location, unloaded, spent a day at their orientation. Picked up another load and went home. Did not pay anything over $250. You can, but don't have to buy their other services, its up to you.
Trust me, its absolutely worth it to spend a day there, I save about $500 each month.

 

If he has 5 or more trucks he doesn't have to attend the class.

 

All you guys say you save hundreds per month, but are you calculating that off the already highly inflated cash price of ta/p? With a standard discount card without a $250 yearly fee you'd probably do about the same. Also no restrictions like "must buy 80% through ta/p or be booted out of program".

 

That's off the inflated prices. I wander All over the country so it's not like I go to the same places every week. I compair everything to the best price I can find local by my home. Usual do just as well or better. Except I can get my truck and trailer to the pump.

What is a standard discount card with no fees?

 

Standard discount is less than 10 cents usually, I have gotten as much as 60 cents off, maybe some small stations have the same price, but its hard to find those and you have to go out of the way to get to them. I personally have never seen a lower price than I get with Nastc