Logistics: vehicle costing and fuel documentation

Many vehicles, scattered routes, fuel and tolls dominating costs — the granularity of your accounting decides whether management is possible.

Industry characteristics

  • Vehicles are the core means of production — per-vehicle cost determines whether a job is worthwhile;
  • Fuel, tolls, maintenance and insurance are scattered across a huge volume of documents;
  • Driver arrangements vary, and cross-region haulage is routine.

Key exposures

  • Loose document management, leaving costs incomplete or non-compliant;
  • No per-vehicle costing, so it is impossible to tell which routes profit;
  • Unclear allocation of rights and obligations between affiliated and owned vehicles;
  • Cross-region tax matters not handled promptly.

How we work

  1. Set up a cost ledger per vehicle, aggregating fuel, tolls, maintenance and insurance;
  2. Build a collection and verification process that pushes compliance requirements to the reimbursement step;
  3. Separate affiliated from owned vehicles, clarifying obligations and settlement;
  4. Report per-vehicle and per-route profitability to inform pricing and dispatch.
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