Fuel Was the Line You Budgeted Flat
Fuel held steady at about $0.48 a mile in 2025, per ATRI. It is now the fastest-moving cost on the truck, and your surcharge recovers last week’s price.
The Savings Are in the Gallons, Not the Price
Two trucks on the same lane pay close to the same posted price, and a discount moves that by cents. What moves the fuel bill is how many gallons the truck buys, which states it buys them in, and how far off route it goes to get them. Large fleets hire somebody to run that math on every load. EKA EconFuel AI does that job.
A fuel tool added on top of routing you do not control produces savings you cannot verify.
How It Works
Optimal Stop Selection
Picks the stops with the lowest delivered cost per gallon on that route, using live pricing and your negotiated discounts.
Granular Planning Variables
Factors tank level, burn rate, state fuel tax, IFTA exposure, hours-of-service and driver amenities into the same calculation.
Direct Driver Workflow
Sends the stop, the gallons and the reason to the cab, at the moment the driver decides.
Driver Fuel Compliance
Flags out-of-plan purchases in real time and reports them monthly by driver and by lane.
The Fuel You Paid For and the Fuel in the Tank Are Two Numbers
EKA EconFuel AI matches fuel card transactions against your fuel management system data. Theft does not look like theft on an invoice. It looks like a slightly high gallon count at a price that was correct.
Why We Built It This Way
The Route Comes First
Fuel optimization runs on top of routing, so an unoptimized route produces an optimized answer to the wrong question.
Drivers Need Answers, Not Data
A stop, a gallon count and a reason, in the cab. Nobody reads a fuel report at 70 miles an hour.
Days, Not Months
The agent uses the order, route and carrier records already in EKA Omni-TMS, so there is no data project in front of the first optimized load.
Scale Is the Point
Cents on one load, a line item across every load.
You Do Not Have to Replace Your TMS
EKA is headless and API-first. Starting at the end of Q4 2026, EconFuel AI will deliver the fuel plan into the system you already run. For fleets with nobody in the fuel seat, EKA pairs the agent with fuel management advisory.
Talk to Us About the APIAny Fleet Without Somebody Whose Job Is Fuel
Carriers and private fleets
You pay the price directly and recover it late.
Shippers
You are quoted a surcharge built on an index that trails the market.
Ready to Stop Overpaying at the Pump?
Live in days, on the records you already have. Bring your negotiated pricing and we will plan the gallons around it.
Schedule a 20-Minute DemoFAQs
Why is my fuel surcharge not covering the increase? +
Most formulas index to the EIA weekly average, collected Monday and published Tuesday. When prices climb 30 cents or more a week, you buy at today’s price and recover at a price set up to seven days earlier. The formula was built for a market that moves slowly.
We already have good network pricing. What else is there? +
Discounts set the floor. Planning decides how many gallons meet it. A fleet with excellent pricing and no plan usually loses to a fleet with average pricing and a followed plan.
Can we run this without changing our TMS? +
Starting at the end of Q4 2026, yes. EKA is headless and API-first, so from then the fuel plan can be delivered into your existing environment, and EKA supports fleets with nobody in the fuel seat with fuel management advisory alongside the agent.
How much can we actually save? +
A typical fleet saves 3 to 8% on fuel spend within a few months. For context, a 10-cent per gallon difference across 100,000 miles at 6 MPG is $1,667 per truck per year.
Does it account for Hours of Service? +
Yes. A cheaper station isn’t cheaper if the detour costs you clock time or dwell. The optimizer factors in the full picture, not just price per gallon.
How do drivers get the plan? +
Stop-by-stop instructions transmit directly to the in-cab mobile communication units, showing the location and the exact gallons to buy.
What if a driver ignores the plan? +
You get real-time alerts when a driver doesn’t follow the optimized plan, plus monthly out-of-plan reporting for fleet operations management, driver managers, and drivers.