From ticket to spreadsheet to database....

Recently a roofing contractor called me to inquire about fuel management systems. He told me that he had 120 vehicles and that all he did was sit for hours every day entering fuel tickets into his spreadsheet program. I asked him what he did with them after that. He said, " I send them to my secretary to enter into our accounting program". It turned out that he was spending on average 1 1/2 hours everyday of his time and the accounting employee was spending another hour to update the accounts. When he couldn't read the writing or make out the odometer information, he would call the driver in at the end of the day and clear up the confusion. In a normal month he would spend 34.5 hours entering tickets and the accountant 23 hours. I asked him how much his time was worth and he said that his pay worked out to around $28 per hour and the accountant was $20. I calculated how much money it cost him and it came to $12,360 per year just to do this one small task. I told him that our SmartMile product would completely remove that task from his day and allow him to focus on more productive activities. The best news was that the SmartMile would pay for itself inside of one year just on the labor savings alone. SmartMile is "Smart Business".
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How do you know?

If a company currently uses no management system and is operating on paper tickets, they are not controlling their fuel. You receive fuel from your fuel supplier but the only way that you know how much went IN to the tank is by the Bill of Laden. How do you know that the amount that went in to the tank is the exact amount on the bill? When the drivers write down the amount of fuel from the register on a paper ticket, how do you know that they only used that amount of fuel? How do you know that they put the fuel in your truck? How do you know that the driver is not siphoning fuel out of your tank? If fuel was only $1.75 per gallon, it would still be an issue but with fuel costs rising to $3.75, it has become a real problem.
The only way to know is to monitor. The only way to monitor is to install a fuel management system that keeps track of every drop of fuel. Savings of a minimum of 5% are commonly realized by companies moving from a manual paper ticket system to SCI's wireless Fuel Management system. That savings alone pays for the system within a year and usually in about 6 months. After that, you KNOW where your fuel dollar is going and you can control it. That's peace-of-mind! That's SCI, Smart Customer Integration. Check out SCI's website at www.sciww.com