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Originally Posted by Longsnowsm
Thanks Gman. I had looked at dieselboss.com and wondered how accurate it was and was wondering if there is a more convenient method to track fuel prices while in route and as the prices change.
I am surprised that they haven't integrated fuel pricing in the mapping software and offer suggestions for fueling on your route based on the best prices retrieved for your given route. Thanks again for the great feedback!
Longsnowsm
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Thanks GMan for the mention.
Here is some clarification as well:
On the web site fuel prices - the current prices are fed directly from the major truckstops themselves. They do a good job of updating them but if an individual station changes the price mid-day then in can be delayed as far as the web site price as that information trickles in to the main corporate data center. However, again we find it to be very accurate the majority of the time.
On fuel prices into GPS or routing software - we do see that there are products available from Garmen, Tom-Tom etc. that are integrating this on some models, but as usual, they don't take big trucks into account much on these products so the diesel fuel in truck stops is still largely ignored.
We are releasing a new GPS truck tracking product soon that actually does allow you to click on your truck on a secure web page and then check the current fuel prices around that vehicle. It is a very cool feature but it is not so much for individual drivers and not integrated into a mapping program at this point. It is more for trucking companies to keep track of their fleets online and direct individual rigs to the cheapest fuel around that truck at the time.
- Don
www.dieselboss.com