Free margin check
Fuel cost audits for Upper Midwest fleets

Most businesses haven't looked at their fuel costs in years.
Your supplier is counting on that.

When nobody's watching, margins drift. A penny here, a penny there, until you're quietly paying thousands more a year than the fleet down the road. We look for you. If your deal is fair, you'll hear that from us and pay nothing. If it's not, you'll finally know what the last few years cost you.

Get your free margin check

Takes 60 seconds. No obligation, no supplier switch required.

What's the creep costing you?

Two answers is all it takes.

Fleets like this are typically overpaying
Based on the excess supplier margin we most commonly find on delivered and cardlock accounts. Your free margin check replaces this estimate with your real number, from your actual invoices. Find my real number
How it works

Three steps. Zero risk.

You don't change how you fuel. You don't have to leave your supplier. You just find out what you're really paying.

STEP 01

Send us your invoices

A few months of fuel invoices is all it takes. We line up every delivery against the published wholesale rack price for that exact day and calculate your supplier's real margin.

STEP 02

We fix the margin

If the margin is fair, we tell you and shake hands. If it's not, we negotiate it down, with your current supplier or with competing quotes. Most fleets keep the same truck showing up, at a better number.

STEP 03

We keep watching

Margins creep back up when nobody's checking. We audit every invoice, every month, against the daily benchmark, and send you a one-page statement showing exactly what you saved.

The problem

The creep is invisible on purpose

When your fuel bill goes up, you assume the market moved. Sometimes it did. Sometimes your margin quietly grew, and there's no way to tell the difference without the daily benchmark. That's the gap we close.

Rack: published daily, tracks the market Fair margin: freight + an honest profit The creep: what you pay for not checking
Who it's for

If diesel is a top-five expense, we should talk

We work with fleets across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas that burn 30,000 or more gallons a year, delivered to yard tanks, drawn at cardlock, or pumped at the truck stop.

Excavating & sitework contractors40k–150k gal/yr
Local & regional trucking (5–50 trucks)80k–500k gal/yr
School bus contractors90k–150k gal/yr
Paving, ready-mix & aggregate50k+ gal/yr
Landscaping, snow & towing30k–80k gal/yr
Ag services & grain hauling50k+ gal/yr
Layer two

Then we go after the card

Fixing the fuel margin is half the job. How you pay for fuel is the other half, and it leaks in ways nobody ever audits. We recapture all of it.

Pump price vs. your price

Trucks fueling at retail truck stops are usually paying the cash price when a properly set up cost-plus card would put them 20 to 45 cents a gallon under it, at the same pumps they already use.

Fees nobody reads

Out-of-network charges, transaction fees, report fees, late fee traps. Fuel card statements are built so you won't look. We read every line and get the junk removed or the program replaced.

Rebates and points you never claimed

Per-gallon rebates are negotiable and most fleets never ask. Same with the cashback and points on the cards running the rest of your business. That's your money sitting on the table, and we go get it.

One thing we do differently: if a card program pays us a referral, you'll know about it, in writing, with the math shown both ways. We only recommend what puts the most money back in your pocket.

Check my fuel and my cards

If we don't find savings, you pay nothing.

No retainers, no hourly bills, no software fees. We're paid a share of savings we can prove, measured against your own invoices and the published daily benchmark, from a baseline that's frozen in writing the day we start. If your supplier is treating you right, you'll get a clean bill of health and a handshake.

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Who we are

Built by someone who reads fuel invoices for a living

Midwest Fuel Group was started by Andrew Emberson, a Twin Cities business broker who has spent years valuing and selling fleet-heavy companies: excavators, trucking firms, bus contractors, landscapers.

Recasting those financials means reading fuel invoices line by line. And the same thing kept showing up: good operators, sharp on everything else, quietly overpaying on diesel because the wholesale benchmark is invisible to them.

This company exists to make that benchmark visible. We're not a fuel supplier and we don't take a nickel from one. We work for the fleet, we put every number on the table, and we disclose exactly how we're paid, always.

Based in Minneapolis. Serving fleets across the Upper Midwest.

Free margin check

Find out in 60 seconds

Tell us a little about your operation and we'll follow up for a few recent invoices. You'll get a straight answer either way: a number, or a clean bill of health.

No cost, no obligation, and we never share your information with fuel suppliers.