Canadian contractors joke that the country has two seasons, winter and construction, and the joke is a scheduling fact. In most of the country, earthwork, paving, concrete, and landscaping compress into the months between thaw and freeze. Whatever the year's revenue will be, it gets earned in that window, and whatever fuel the year needs, most of it gets burned in the same window, from the excavators and skid steers on site to the trucks and crew vehicles circling between jobs while the daylight lasts.
That compression is a pricing exposure hiding in plain sight. A contractor bids spring and summer work in late winter, at late winter's sense of what fuel costs. The work then burns its diesel months later, in the heart of the season, and any market rise in between comes out of margins that were fixed the day the bid was accepted. A short season also means no catching up: hours lost to a squeezed budget cannot be made back in a month when the ground is frozen.
Locking the season before it opens
FuelAnchor is a fuel supply company. You request a quote for the litres you expect the season to burn, and the quote sets a locked maximum price per litre for your term of 1, 3, 6, or 12 months. You prepay the volume, then fill using a FuelAnchor card at the stations you choose, wherever the trucks and fuel jugs already stop between sites. Below your locked maximum, you pay the posted price. Above it, your rate holds, and the difference is carried by FuelAnchor for the rest of the term.
The natural fit is a 6 month agreement quoted in early spring, sitting under the entire working season. The litres estimate comes from last season's fuel records, which most contractors have in fuel card statements even if nobody has ever added them up. A contractor who wants tighter granularity can instead put a 1 or 3 month agreement under a single big project, quoted the day the contract is signed, so the fuel inside that bid is bounded before the first machine unloads.
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The bid-sheet argument
The deeper value is in how work gets priced. A bid has a fuel line, and on a fixed-price contract that line is a guess about the market months out. With a locked maximum, the guess becomes an input: your expected litres at a per litre cost with a written worst case. Whatever margin the bid carries is protected from the one input most likely to move against it mid-project. Landscaping companies quoting seasonal maintenance contracts get the same benefit across dozens of small commitments instead of one big one.
Diesel for the iron and gasoline for the crew trucks are quoted independently in the same request, so a mixed fleet gets a real figure for each fuel. There is no rate card: every quote is computed when you ask, from current prices in your area, your volumes, and your term. Request a quote before the ground opens, and a FuelAnchor representative will prepare your quote and follow up with you directly. The season will be short either way. It does not have to be uncertain too.
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