Yes. A municipality, special district, or local agency that fuels its own vehicles can hold a fixed price fuel supply agreement the same way a private fleet can. FuelAnchor is a fuel supply company: the fleet's expected monthly gallons are quoted at a locked maximum price per gallon for a term of 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, the volume is prepaid, and vehicles fill using a FuelAnchor card at the stations the fleet designates. If market prices rise above the locked rate during the term, the fleet keeps paying its locked rate and FuelAnchor absorbs the difference on every gallon.
The reason this matters more for public fleets than for almost anyone else is how public money works. A town's fuel line is set in an appropriation months before the fuel is bought, and the number has to survive a fiscal year no matter what the market does. When fuel runs past the budget, the gap gets covered the hard way, through transfers from other lines or a mid-year request nobody enjoys making. A locked maximum turns the appropriation into a figure that can actually hold, because gallons times a written ceiling is a bounded number rather than a hope.
Which public fleets fit
The scale question answers itself in most towns. Public works trucks, plow and salt vehicles, parks and grounds equipment, water and sewer service vehicles, code enforcement and inspection cars, senior and paratransit shuttles, and small transit operations together put real gallons through a modest fleet every month. Many small and mid-sized municipalities land in the 500 to 5,000 gallon a month range that FuelAnchor's agreements are built around, and a school district's activity and service vehicles can sit in the same band.
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Fitting the term to the fiscal year
A 12 month agreement aligned to the fiscal year makes the budget line and the fuel ceiling the same fact, which is the cleanest version for an annual appropriation. Seasonal exposure can be handled separately: a 3 or 6 month agreement can sit under plow season, when consumption spikes with every storm, sized from last winter's fuel records rather than a summer month. Diesel, gasoline, and off-road diesel are each quoted independently, so the plow trucks, the sedans, and the grounds equipment each carry a real number.
Common questions
Is this a financial arrangement the board needs special review for? It is a fuel purchase: a supply agreement with a fixed maximum price, prepaid, from a fuel supply company. Procurement review is whatever your ordinary purchasing process requires for a supplier agreement.
What if prices fall during the term? The locked figure is a maximum. On days the pump price is below it, the fleet pays the lower pump price, so the budget's worst case simply never gets reached.
How are quotes priced? Per request, on demand, from current market prices in your area, your fuel types, your volumes, and your term. There is no rate card, so the number for your town is generated when you ask.
A fleet manager can request a quote in about a minute with the fleet's monthly gallons and service area, and take an actual bounded figure into the next budget season instead of an estimate.
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