Tips on Saving Gas Money
posted by Jeff Novak: Thursday, September 4th, 2008

The BusinessWeek Small Business Section is often a great place to get tools to help run your small business more effectively. Recently, the topic of one article was how to reduce your gas expenses. The article gives advice if you are only using one or two trucks or if you have an entire fleet.

The article recommends AAA.com as the site has a gas finder that after you plug in the zip code it pulls up a map of local gas stations and prices. I prefer to use gasbuddy.com, as it is more community based (people are encouraged to join and post gas prices) which keeps the site current and up to date. They also have a mobile site as well as a partnership with Where, which adds a widget to your GPS device so you can get gas prices while on the road.

For larger fleets, Businessweek recommends Rand McNally’s Intelliroute which costs about $1500 and a $300/mo fee but it is one of the most complete route finding services. Also mentioned in the article is Roadnet Anywhere from UPS. There are several other tools and services, which ones do you use?