How to Track Fuel Cost and Consumption per Vehicle

To track fuel cost and consumption, you record both the money spent and the litres purchased. One without the other hides the thing you actually want to know: which vehicles are costing more than they should.

Why fuel spend resists analysis

Fuel is the largest recurring fleet cost and usually the least analysed.

Total spend known, per-vehicle spend unknown
Price changes confused with consumption changes
No baseline to judge whether a vehicle is inefficient
Outliers invisible in a single monthly figure

What to measure

Total fuel cost over the last thirty days
Cost per day, to see the pattern rather than the total
Litres consumed, separating volume from price
Consumption per litre registered on the vehicle, as the expected baseline
Comparison across vehicles, to find the outliers

How to configure it in Jestor

Register each vehicle in Jestor with its expected consumption per litre.
Record each refuelling with litres and value; the total calculates automatically.
Build a dashboard indicator for total fuel cost over the last thirty days.
Add a daily cost chart showing spend and litres per day.
Compare actual consumption against the registered baseline to find outliers.

Why choose Jestor for cost analysis?

Jestor stores the expected consumption on the vehicle record, which turns fuel analysis from a total into a comparison — actual against expected, per vehicle.

Because litres and value are tracked separately, a rise in cost can be attributed correctly: a price increase looks different from a vehicle burning more fuel than it should.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why track litres as well as cost?

To separate a price increase from a consumption problem.

Can I see spend per day?

Yes, as a chart across the last thirty days. See jestor.com.

Can fuel costs post to the ERP?

Yes, expenses can generate accounts payable entries.

Video Tutorial: Step by Step

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