Every FuelAnchor agreement asks one structural question: how long? Terms run 1, 3, 6, or 12 months, and operators sometimes stall here, treating it as a market prediction they are not qualified to make. It is not a market question at all. It is a question about the shape of your own work, and your work already knows the answer.
The principle is to match the term to the commitment you are protecting. Fuel exposure is not abstract; it attaches to specific promises, whether that is a bid you signed or a year of routes you will run regardless. The term should cover the promise, start to finish, and then stop pretending to know more than that.
One month: the project
A 1 month term fits work with edges. A contract with a start and end date, a surge you sold for a specific stretch, a one-off haul. The gallons estimate comes from the same math that priced the job, and the term ends when the promise it protected is delivered. Nothing about next quarter is decided, because nothing about next quarter needed deciding.
Three months: the season
A 3 month term fits the recurring pushes that structure a year, like a harvest or a quarter of committed rates. It is the natural rhythm for businesses that reprice quarterly anyway, since the fuel cap and the customer rate sheet can share a calendar, each renewal quoted fresh against the market of its day.
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Six and twelve months: the operation
The longer terms fit exposure that never closes. If your trucks run the same routes every week of the year, your fuel risk is not attached to any single job; it is the operating condition of the business. A 6 month agreement covers a working season in trades where winter changes the game. A 12 month agreement puts one ceiling under the whole operating year, which is what turns the fuel line of an annual budget from a guess into a bounded number. This is where the certainty compounds: every quote you give your own customers during the term sits on a known worst case.
Mixing terms is allowed, because your work mixes
Nothing forces one answer. An operation with steady base routes and a sharp seasonal peak can run a 12 month agreement under the base and a short agreement over the peak, each sized to its own gallons. A contractor can hold a seasonal agreement and still lock an extra month for an unusually large job that lands mid-summer. Each quote is its own request, sized to a volume, a term, and a coverage area you choose, and each is computed at the moment you ask from current prices, with no rate card behind any of it.
The practical way in is to list the fuel promises you are currently carrying, from jobs signed to routes that run regardless. Whichever promise worries you most is the term to quote first. Request a quote for that one, with gallons from your own records, and let the term fit the work instead of the other way around.
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