OPERATIONAL HONESTY#002: Fuel Procurement Hygiene
Strategic Rejection of Retail Fuel Pricing
Fuel is the most volatile variable in logistics. If you aren't optimizing your procurement, you are letting your profit leak into the pavement.
In the moving industry, we obsess over labor hours and damage claims, yet we treat fuel as an "inevitability." We let drivers pull into whatever station is convenient. We let them pay whatever the sign says. This is not just a "cost of doing business"; it is a systemic failure of procurement hygiene.
The Polite Fiction: "Gas Prices are just High"
The polite fiction we tell ourselves is that we are at the mercy of the market. While you can't control the crude oil price, you can control your entry point. When a driver pulls into a station that is $0.20 more expensive than the one two blocks away, your margin just evaporated.
The Hard Stop: Strategic Procurement
An operator doesn't leave procurement to chance. You need a system that enforces the lowest possible cost for every gallon of energy your fleet consumes.
At JPG Systems, we use Upside as a strategic optimization layer. It isn't just about "getting cash back"—it's about building a systematic habit of margin reclamation.
The JPG Fuel Protocol:
Never Pay Retail: Use the platform to verify the lowest cost in your immediate radius.
Logged Verification: Cross-reference every gallon against the job's revenue in Move-Master.OS.
Automated Reclamation: Turn a variable expense into a predictable revenue stream.
Execute the System
If you aren't optimizing your fuel procurement, you are a data janitor cleaning up after your own profit leaks. Start reclaiming your margin today.
DOWNLOAD THE UPSIDE PROTOCOL HERE (Use Referral Code: JOE37229 to trigger the initial reclamation bonus)
THE NEXT STEP IN HYGIENE: Now that you've secured your fuel procurement, look at how we handle Inventory Hygiene in Operational Honesty or download the full Last Inch Manifesto for $5.
