From the Horizon FrontLine

Private fleets rank fuel number one issue

Fuel costs are the number one concern of private truck fleet owners - so how are you managing them?

I just had a great conversation with Joe Michetti, one of our customers with Ameriline Transportion of Ohio. He's one of the best testers of our new Horizon trucking software release, coming out in June. While he was really excited about the new dispatching features and enhancements in Shipment Tracer, he wasn't aware of the new Billing Surcharges feature, now built into Horizon Billing - a GREAT benefit to trucking companies faced with constantly changing fuel prices and costs.

Billing Surcharges lets companies set up a spreadsheet of surcharges with start and end dates, specific to individual billing codes. Surcharges can be based on percentage or per mile calculations - so you can be sure to get the most out of your invoicing needs.

So I showed Joe how to set this up. Now when I first mentioned it to him, his comment was that his surcharges were fairly complex and that they changed every week - so it was always something they felt they could do better manually.

Within 15 minutes, we had set up Billing Surcharges for two of this customers and the rates were instantly being re-calculated just by changing the delivery date. As a result, Ameriline will be able to free up a lot more time billing loads, turning it from a calculation process into more of a monitoring one where the billing clerk reviews the charges but spends less time calculating them manually.

Fuel costs are changing daily - and fuel surcharges are just one of the ways trucking companies can meet that challenge. Horizon's new Billing Surcharges features can help you recoup those costs.

Private fleets rank fuel number one issue

posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 4:59 PM