Fuel Desk · Diagnose
Name the fuel job before you trust the number.
Pump price, card savings, diesel cost per mile, fuel recovery, and IFTA can all look like one problem when the truck is moving. They are not the same decision. Start here, identify what you are actually trying to prove, then move to the record, utility, Guide, or provider comparison that owns the next step.
Official Public Source / Weekly Benchmark
Weekly diesel price context.
The existing shared HSHQ source checks the latest EIA U.S. on-highway diesel release. When that bridge omits a requested regional series, this page checks the official EIA API for the same recorded week. This market context does not choose the operator’s fuel job.
| Area | Weekly average |
|---|---|
| U.S. national | Unknown |
| New England | Unknown |
| Central Atlantic | Unknown |
| Lower Atlantic | Unknown |
| Midwest | Unknown |
| Gulf Coast | Unknown |
| Rocky Mountain | Unknown |
| West Coast | Unknown |
| California | Unknown |
Checking the existing shared HSHQ Fuel source. Missing source values stay explicitly unavailable and are never converted to zero.
Market benchmark—not your net fuel price. These weekly EIA averages do not establish the pump, cash, card, app, account, rebate-adjusted, or final transaction price available to your operation. Use the actual pump/card net price for a stop or buying decision.
One truck can produce several legitimate fuel numbers. The decision tells you which one gets a vote.
Starting routes
Start with the job in front of you.
Each route names the evidence that controls the question. If a required fact is missing, leave it Unknown instead of borrowing a number from a different fuel job.
| Actual-period cost | What did diesel purchases cost per operating mile?Use final diesel transaction cost and operating miles covering the same completed dates and vehicle scope. A public diesel average does not belong in this record. |
Open Fuel Check-Up → |
| Today’s stop | Which practical stop is actually cheaper for this purchase?Use the price your payment method can actually buy, planned gallons, observed MPG, added round-trip miles, and any separate transaction fee. |
Read detour-economics Guide → |
| Current card setup | Is the fuel-card or payment setup producing real value where you run?Start with actual transaction evidence, eligible gallons, fees, usable locations, and funding terms. Audit the current setup before a provider list turns into a shopping trip. |
Open Fuel Providers → |
| Fuel recovery | The load shows a fuel surcharge. Did the settlement pay what the written terms support?Trace the written formula from rate confirmation or contract to invoice to settlement. Actual fuel cost is a different ledger and does not prove underpayment. |
Read surcharge-formula Guide → |
| IFTA | What does this quarter’s jurisdiction mileage and tax-paid fuel record support?Use the selected quarter, jurisdiction miles, supported tax-paid gallons, and official rates. Fuel-buying price and IFTA liability are related, but they are not the same calculation. |
Open IFTA Estimator → |
| Written offers | How do fuel-card offers compare on the same operating assumptions?Compare the same gallons, period, usable network, fees, funding or deposit terms, controls, and written conditions. Provider availability does not prove that a switch is needed. |
Open Fuel Providers → |
Ownership boundary
Fuel owns the fuel-economics question—not every decision around the truck.
The same diesel expense can create a cost question, cash question, written-term question, tax question, or mechanical question. Those questions can touch. They do not merge.
Finance owns the whole-business money decision.
Fuel can establish a bounded fuel cost. It does not decide whether the operation is profitable, whether cash arrives in time, or whether a reserve is adequate.
Open Finance →The written formula controls the recovery check.
Fuel can trace entered arithmetic against a supplied rate confirmation or contract term. This page does not establish disputed legal meaning, rights, or enforcement.
Equipment owns diagnosis.
Fuel cost can show that idling or poor efficiency is expensive. It cannot diagnose abnormal regeneration, engine condition, or why the truck consumed fuel.
Open Equipment Record →Fuel Guides · Desk support
Three Guides support the Fuel Desk diagnosis.
Use these before a number gets promoted into a conclusion. They cover the three Desk-side questions: whether an old fuel number is still usable, what leased-on fuel money actually reaches you, and what a written surcharge formula actually promises.
Diesel Moved. Did Your Cost Floor Move With It?
Use a completed fuel record as history, not prophecy. Reprice planning only when the current fuel assumption changes enough to move the decision.
Leased to a Carrier? Follow the Fuel Money Before You Call It a Discount
Separate the carrier card price, chargebacks, card fees, and fuel-related compensation before deciding what the program actually costs your side of the settlement.
Your Lane Has a Fuel Surcharge. What Is the Formula Actually Paying?
Trace the written base, index, MPG assumption, mileage basis, and settlement arithmetic before calling a difference an underpayment.
Fuel path
Four destinations. One owner for each job.
The Desk routes. Fuel Check-Up owns the matched record. The Decision Center owns the bounded next move. Fuel Providers owns written-offer comparison. Fuel Guides remain a supporting library outside this four-destination path.
Educational decision support only. Fuel Desk routing does not prove profitability, provider fit, contractual entitlement, mechanical cause, tax filing accuracy, or future fuel cost. Unknown stays Unknown. Use the record or utility that owns the question, and verify current written terms, transaction prices, official IFTA rates, and responsible instructions before acting.