A logging side is two fuel operations wearing one company name. In the woods, skidders, loaders, processors, and saws burn diesel and mixed gas all day without ever touching pavement, fed from transfer tanks and fuel trailers that somebody has to fill in town. On the road, log trucks make repeated turns between the landing and the mill, and those miles run entirely on retail fuel bought along the haul route. Put the two together and a small crew sits squarely in the range of a few thousand gallons a month when the side is running hard.
What makes logging fuel different from most trades is that the rate is often set before the fuel is burned. Cut-and-haul rates get agreed with the landowner or the mill, sometimes for a job that will take a season to finish. Trucking is paid by the load or the ton-mile. Once those numbers are inked, every fuel price increase between the first load and the last lands on the contractor, because nobody reopens a cut-and-haul rate over the price of diesel. The crew keeps working, the trucks keep turning, and the margin quietly narrows.
A locked maximum under a locked rate
That structure is exactly what a fixed-price fuel supply agreement addresses. FuelAnchor is a fuel supply company: you request a quote for the gallons you expect to burn, and it returns a locked maximum price per gallon for your term. You prepay the gallons, then fill with a FuelAnchor card at the stations you choose. When the pump is below your locked maximum, you pay the pump price. When the market climbs past it mid-job, your rate holds where you signed it, which means the cut-and-haul rate you agreed to still means what it meant when you agreed to it.
The card fits how logging fuel actually gets bought. Nobody delivers to a landing two ridges past the last named road, so crews already run fuel to the woods themselves. The service truck fills drums and transfer tanks at the station in town, while log trucks and crew pickups fuel along the haul route. All of that is card-at-the-pump buying, and every gallon of it can draw down a prepaid balance at a known ceiling. Diesel is the main event, and the quote form also lists off-road diesel among its fuel types, with each fuel in a request priced independently.
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Matching the term to the cut
Terms run 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, and the shape of logging work uses both ends.
A short term fits a single sale or a seasonal window. A tract that will cut out in two or three months can carry a 1 or 3 month agreement quoted right after the contract is signed, sized from the same estimate you used to bid the job. In country where spring breakup or fire season shuts the woods down, a short term covers exactly the months the crew can actually work, with no agreement running idle while the equipment sits.
A longer term fits the outfit with continuous work. Crews that move from sale to sale, truckers with standing mill contracts, and operations that cut all year in milder country can put a 6 or 12 month agreement under the whole program. Every job bid during the term gets bid against a fuel cost with a known worst case, which is a better foundation than bidding against a guess about next quarter's diesel market.
Getting to your quote
Every quote is computed when you ask, from current prices in your coverage area, your fuel types, your volume, and your term. There is no rate card, and a number quoted for another crew in another county says nothing about yours. The gallons figure is the only homework, and your fuel receipts and transfer tank fills already hold it. Pull a month you trust, decide whether you are covering a tract or a year, and request a quote. It takes about a minute and commits you to nothing. The mill sets the delivered price and the weather sets the schedule. The fuel under the job can be the one number you set yourself.
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