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March 24, 2025
What Is Fuel Management? 6 Best Practices
A fuel management tool optimizes energy consumption and ensures shippers pay only for actual carrier use. Discover best practices for efficiency here.
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March 10, 2025
How Fuel Recovery Impacts Each Part of Your Company
Enhance transportation energy management and streamline fuel reimbursements with Fuel Recovery. Use shipment-level data to improve efficiency across stakeholders.
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February 5, 2025
Oil In Motion: How Crude Oil Transportation Works
Learn how crude oil moves from refineries to oil facilities and see which crude oil transportation methods are best for various needs.
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January 29, 2025
Diesel Tax Changes in 2025: What You Need to Know
Stay informed with our overview of the January 2025 diesel fuel tax per state adjustments and learn about their impact on your transportation spend.
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January 27, 2025
Elevate Fuel Surcharge Management with a Zero-Base Rate Strategy
Explore how Breakthrough's zero-base strategy—a fuel surcharge base rate approach—brings transparency to fuel and freight costs and boosts operational efficiency.
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January 22, 2025
How Much Do Fuel Surcharges Cost You?
Simplify your fuel surcharge process with Fuel Recovery. Our solution helps you optimize transportation costs and strengthen shipper-carrier relationships.
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January 20, 2025
Comprehensive T-Fuel® Implementation Guide
Mitigate volatility with data-driven diesel fuel hedging strategies. Learn more about the T-Fuel implementation process to achieve greater budget control.
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November 19, 2024
What’s In A Crude Oil Barrel? A Breakdown Of Crude Oil Refined Products
Read about the distribution of refined products that come out of one barrel of crude oil and how these outputs influence prices and trade.
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November 8, 2024
The Importance of Unbundling Your Fuel and Freight Costs
Discover how unbundling fuel and freight costs through Europe Fuel Recovery can lead to cost savings, increased transparency, and a lower carbon footprint.
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October 31, 2024
PADD vs. Fuel Recovery: The Case for a Lane-Level Calculation
Discover how switching from regional diesel fuel price indices to lane-level fuel reimbursements boosts shippers' cost accuracy, transparency, and fairness.
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October 4, 2024
Your Fuel Surcharge Program Is Hurting Your Bottom Line. Here’s How To Fix It.
Fuel surcharge programs lead to shippers routinely overpaying for fuel. Here’s how a market-based fuel reimbursement program ensures fair and accurate fuel prices.
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September 26, 2024
3 Myths About Implementing Fuel Recovery in Europe
Discover how Breakthrough dispels misconceptions about energy price management in European transport logistics with transparency, efficiency, and data security.
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September 13, 2024
Understanding Fuel Reimbursements: Europe vs. North America
Learn how Europe fuel surcharges, including the flat fuel share system and transport energy solutions, differ from North America. Discover opportunities.
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September 10, 2024
How Fuel Recovery in Europe Works
Discover how Fuel Recovery in Europe calculates fair and accurate transport charges and maintains strong partnerships with transport contractors.
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April 23, 2024
Fuel Recovery and T-Fuel Fortify Energy Market Risk
Discover how Fuel Recovery and T-Fuel can transform your fuel price risk management strategy. Achieve budget certainty, maintain relations, and mitigate risk.
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March 4, 2024
Rethink Your Europe Fuel Management Transportation Strategy
Fuel Recovery redefines Europe fuel management for leading shippers, enabling cost reduction, continuous improvement initiatives, and transport decarbonization.
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February 22, 2024
Do Carriers Increase Linehaul Rates When Shippers Implement Fuel Recovery?
Explore the findings of a third-party study conducted by e2open, which delves into the impact of linehaul rates after a shipper implements Fuel Recovery.
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January 30, 2024
How To Facilitate Productive Fuel Recovery Change Management Conversations With Your 3PL
Learn how best-in-class fuel management software, like Fuel Recovery, improves transparency for the shipper, 3PL, and carrier, and change management strategies.
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January 12, 2024
Mitigate Budget Uncertainty With Fuel Recovery
Unlock cost savings and increase transparency with Fuel Recovery. Learn how this industry-leading solution helps shippers reduce truckload fuel spend by 20%.
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December 28, 2023
A Record-Breaking Week: Spreads Reach Over 100 Cents
For the first time in Breakthrough history, we experienced an over 100-cent spread, the difference between the weekly DOE index and the daily cost of wholesale diesel, for fifteen consecutive days. Shippers on the Breakthrough Fuel Recovery program reimburse carriers closer to the reality of fuel procurement.
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November 22, 2023
Maximize The Effectiveness Of Fuel Recovery Change Management Strategies
Master change management with Breakthrough’s Fuel Recovery solution. Learn to effectively communicate its benefits and unlock your business potential.
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September 26, 2023
How The Future Of Diesel Will Impact Your Transportation Network
Diesel isn’t going away, but it is beginning to cede market share to alternative fuels. Here’s how shippers can prepare for a polyfuel future.
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July 18, 2023
How To Answer Tough C-Suite Questions On Diesel Fuel Costs And Emissions Reduction Strategies
Market-based fuel reimbursements empower shippers to save up to 20% on fuel costs while pinpointing strategic opportunities to reduce emissions.
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February 1, 2023
3 Global Fuel Trends Set To Define The 2023 Energy Market
The 2023 energy market will bring price volatility. Here are the 3 global fuel trends set to define energy prices — and how shippers can stay agile amid fuel cost fluctuations.
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January 31, 2023
Diesel Fuel Volatility Shrinks Shippers’ Budgets
Many shippers experienced extreme diesel fuel volatility in 2022. In 2023, leading shippers are using market-based fuel reimbursements to combat it.
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September 15, 2022
Autumn U.S. Diesel Market Outlook: Transparency Amid Conflicting Views
The U.S. diesel market is expected to remain difficult to manage through autumn and winter. Learn how transportation fuel market costs are being influenced.
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June 30, 2022
DOE Index Impacted By Technical Issues | Advisor Pulse
The DOE Index has been impacted by the EIA server failures, resulting in unknowns for shippers and carriers who rely on the index. The server has been delayed for two weeks.
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June 27, 2022
It's Time To Take A Second Look At Your Base Rate And Fuel Surcharge
Fuel surcharge schedules and outdated base rates are no match for 2022’s volatile energy market. Here’s why you should reconsider your fuel reimbursement program.
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August 25, 2021
How Is Breakthrough Fuel Recovery Calculated?
Learn how Breakthrough's fuel recovery calculates fair and accurate transportation fuel reimbursements. Get an clear picture of your transportation network fuel costs.
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August 11, 2021
Bring Agility To Your Supply Chain With Fuel Management
As agility in the supply chain gains increasing importance in today's rapidly changing industry, new applications for the concept emerge.
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April 6, 2021
How Data Makes The Difference In Your Intermodal Shipping Strategy
A dependency on inaccurate fuel cost data has held shippers back from seeing the advantages of using intermodal transportation as a fuel management strategy.
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April 5, 2021
How Shippers Can Address Transportation Fuel Costs In Their Next Carrier RFP
Breakthrough helps explain how true fuel cost visibility during the RFP process can help create a competitive advantage for shippers and carriers.
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March 22, 2021
The Industry-Leading Transportation Fuel Reimbursement Solution
See the difference between Breakthrough Fuel Recovery and the DOE Index with this infographic. See how a market-based approach is superior to a surcharge.
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February 3, 2021
The Importance Of Fuel Efficiency Benchmarking And Improvement Initiatives For Shippers
Over time, fleets update technology and the industry makes strides in improving fuel efficiency - are your fuel reimbursements reflecting those changes?
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January 12, 2021
3 Things Shippers Need To Know About Fuel Forecasting In 2021
Energy prices, including crude oil and diesel, have behaved erratically. Read what you need to know looking head.
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December 29, 2020
Transportation Industry Trends: 2020 Year In Review
The records set thus far in 2020 could point to shifting trends throughout the year and beyond! Read the most important events for shippers.
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December 18, 2020
Supporting Food Shippers With Industry Leading Technology And Insights
Breakthrough is proud to be featured as one of Food Logistics' Top Software and Technology providers in 2020!
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October 30, 2020
The Supply Chain’s Guide To Comparing Policy Of 2020 Candidates
As we face an important election in November, be aware of the implications that each candidate would have on your supply chain strategy.
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September 14, 2020
What Is OPEC? | An Overview And Implications On Crude Oil
You see it in the headlines and hear it in the news, but what exactly is "OPEC" and how does it affect prices in the international crude oil market?
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September 4, 2020
Baffled By Your BAF? A Look At BAF 2020
New strategies in the post-IMO 2020 marine fuel industry are taking off, but the already divisive BAF landscape has proven to be even more inconsistent.
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July 24, 2020
Diesel Fuel Tax By State: Impacts On Transportation Costs
Diesel taxes vary greatly by state. What are recent state diesel tax changes and how do they impact shippers?
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July 17, 2020
How Do Geopolitical Events Impact Diesel Fuel Prices In 2020?
Read why oil prices rise when geopolitical events happen in non-oil-producing countries. Breakthrough's Vice President of Advisory Services explains.
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July 13, 2020
The Cost To Produce Diesel Fuel: What Drives Transportation Fuel Prices
Why did diesel prices go up? Learn the inputs that drive up transportation fuel costs and how you can manage change.
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July 1, 2020
Factors That Influence Crude Oil Refined Products
Learn the four key factors that influence crude oil refined products output — and see how these variables impact prices.
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June 20, 2020
OPEC’s Changing Role In Global Price Dynamics
OPEC historically had the majority market share of crude oil, driving prices and forcing the market. Read about new producers and how the game is changing.
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June 19, 2020
The Risk Of Over-Correcting A Low Crude Oil Price Environment
High prices cure high prices, low prices cure low prices. Read one outcome of current crude oil prices!
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June 12, 2020
Why Do Shippers Use The DOE Fuel Surcharge? A History Of The National Fuel Surcharge
Learn about the history of the DOE fuel surcharge and see why it has endured as an inaccurate pricing practice for decades.
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May 27, 2020
Fuel & Freight Update | COVID-19 Improvements Help Markets Find Stability
Wholesale diesel prices have maintained upward momentum since the widespread relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown measures revitalized fuel consumption. Many suppliers also remain motivated to restrain production in the push to reduce the supply glut brought upon by the pandemic’s demand blow.
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