Fuel, driver wages, tyres, repairs and financing sit in company-level ledgers, never against the trip that consumed them.
Growing revenue while margin quietly falls
A fleet can add vehicles, win customers and increase turnover every quarter while the business gets less profitable. The reason is almost always that nobody can cost a single trip.
Why this keeps happening
By the time a loss-making contract appears in the year-end review it has been running for eleven months.
The return leg costs real money and appears on no invoice, so it is rarely counted against the lane.
Rates get renewed at last year's number because nothing shows what the work actually costs to deliver.
What changes
Distance, fuel drawn, driver hours, tolls, maintenance accrual and overhead are attributed to the trip at completion.
The same records aggregate by vehicle, route, customer, depot, branch or business unit without re-keying.
Round-trip calculation treats the outbound and return as one economic job, so empty running is priced in rather than ignored.
A lane that loses money for three consecutive weeks is escalated with a return-load suggestion attached.
What the business gets back
Rate negotiations start from a defensible cost per kilometre instead of a guess. Loss-making lanes surface in weeks rather than at year end, and the decision to keep, reprice or drop a customer rests on the cost of serving them.
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