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Tracking today's diesel price is useful. Calculating what fuel movements mean for budgets, customer pricing and margin is the harder part. This guide shows you how.

When higher fuel costs cannot immediately be passed on to customers, the difference can reduce your margin. This guide shows you how to work out what it could be costing you.

Every business owner knows exactly what they spend on fuel. Almost none know what rising fuel prices have actually cost them. What you spend is on every invoice. What the price rises took off your profit isn’t written down anywhere, so it never gets looked at. Think back over the last five years. A pandemic, a war in Ukraine, now the Middle East. Fuel fell hard in 2020, then climbed and kept climbing. Most businesses took the rough. The smooth never paid it back. Very few have ever checked how exposed they actually are. The ones that do rarely look at fuel the same way again. Link in the comments if you want to see where you stand.

If someone asked what fuel price movements have done to your margin this year, could you answer? Download the guide to work through the cost.

The tension behind this didn’t start this week. It’s been building for a while, and every so often, it pushes the price sharply. Know your exposure before it does it again.

It’s not a new story. It’s the same one, still unfolding, and it just moved your fuel price again.