Trip fuel cost and fuel stops
Gallons, cost and fuel stops for a trip from miles, mpg, idle time and tank size.
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: fuel plan
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95.7 gal, 0 fuel stops, $367.18 all in ($0.574 a mile)
- Fuel needed
- 95.7 gal
- Fuel cost
- $368.51
- Cost per mile
- $0.576
- Fuel stops
- 0
- Range on a full tank
- 1,224 miles above reserve
Fuel plan for the driver
- Fuel needed
- 95.7 gal: 94.1 gal driving at 6.8 mpg plus 1.6 gal idling
- Fuel above the reserve at departure
- 180.0 gal, about 1,203 miles
- Fuel stops
- None: the trip fits in the fuel at departure, above the reserve
- Range per fill
- 1,203 miles on 180.0 gal above the 25% reserve
- Fuel left at the receiver
- 144.3 gal, 60% of the tank
Also on the sheet
- Trip cost sheet · 8 lines, starting with “Diesel at the pump”
- Idle cost · 5 lines, starting with “Idle fuel this trip”
- What if (diesel, net of the card discount) · 4 lines, starting with “mpg 6.3”
The plain-words read of this example
The 640-mile trip burns about 95.7 gal, 1.6 gal of it idling, and needs 0 fuel stops. All in, with the card discount, DEF and time at the pump, it costs $367.18, or $0.574 a mile. The truck reaches the receiver with about 60% of the tank. Idle fuel costs $6.00 a trip; DOE's yardstick is about 0.8 gallon an hour for a heavy truck, and an idle-reduction unit would save about $675.00 a year. Check the price against EIA's weekly regional average before dispatch.
5 cited sources
- Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (weekly on-highway prices) (US Energy Information Administration)
- Idling reduction for heavy-duty vehicles (fact sheet, 2015) (US Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center)
- Requirements for SmartWay Verification of Idling Reduction Technologies (IRTs) for Trucks (US Environmental Protection Agency)
- Summary of Hours of Service Regulations (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration)
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle (CO2 per gallon of fuel) (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.