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Diesel Is Your Biggest Line.
It Earns the Least.

A carrier profile at $275,000 a month of card-able spend earns about 549,000 points a month with every bonus rate capped on published terms, and nets about $9,530 a month after our fee at our current valuation. The routing is the work. The receipt is on the calculator.

Your numbers

See What You're
Leaving Behind

This page's profile is the starting point on the calculator. Move the sliders to your own numbers. Every bonus rate is capped on published terms, rent and payroll stay off the card, and our fee comes out before you see a number.

The starting profile

Diesel across fuel networks$185,000 at up to 4x
Maintenance, tires and parts$42,000 at 2x
Tolls and scale fees$14,000 at up to 4x
Insurance and permits$26,000 at 1x
Everything else$8,000 at 2x
Net, this month, after our fee$9,530

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The mistakes

What Trucking & Logistics Get Wrong

None of this is obvious from a statement. It is what the desk sees on a carrier profile, line by line.

01

Putting diesel across fuel networks on the same card as everything else

Your biggest line, $185,000 a month, sits in a 4x category on published terms and earns one point on the card most firms actually use. The rate holds on the first $150,000 a year of its pool, combined with the other lines in that pool, then drops to 1x. Routing it is the single largest decision in this profile.

The math

$2,220,000 a year. On the card most firms use, at 1x: 2,220,000 points. Routed, caps applied: 8,880,000 points. The difference is the whole argument.

02

Leaving the other bonus lines on the same card as everything else

The bonus lines carry this profile: diesel across fuel networks, tolls and scale fees, $199,000 a month on this profile. On published terms, 4x holds on the first $150,000 a year of advertising, software, fuel and tolls combined, and 3x on the first $150,000 of shipping, travel, internet and phone combined, then 1x. This profile passes the pool: $2,238,000 a year of bonus-eligible spend runs at the next rate down. Past the pools, a second entity or a second issuer is a desk decision, not a promise.

The math

$199,000 a month on the bonus lines, routed: 9,216,000 points a year. On the invoice card at 2x: 4,776,000. On a debit card: 0.

03

Forcing rent, payroll and non-card vendors onto the card to chase points

Left off this profile: factoring and financing costs, driver payroll. Rent and vendor bills can ride a bill-pay service at 2.9%; at this page's own defaults 2x is worth about 3.7 cents a dollar after the honest discount, so it clears by well under a cent. The desk decides those line by line.

The math

2 points × 3.0 cents × 85% redeemed × the honest discount = about 3.7 cents a dollar. Minus a 2.9% bill-pay fee = well under a cent. That is not a strategy; it is a rounding error with a fee attached.

How it works

Your vendors. Our routing.

Every vendor sends a merchant category code (MCC) when you swipe. That code determines your multiplier. The same $5,000 payment earns 5,000 points on the wrong card or up to 20,000 on the right one, inside the pool. We match every vendor to its highest-earning card.

MCC
Vendor Code Analysis

We've mapped how your vendors code with card networks. Verified, not guessed.

CAP
Spending Cap Tracking

Every bonus category has annual caps. We flag the pool before it fills, so the next dollar goes to the next rate down instead of to 1x.

CPP
Transfer Partner Math

Earning is half. We show you which redemptions clear our current valuation and which do not, and we print the call before the booking.

Your card stack, routing rules, and redemption strategy are built specifically for your vendors and spend. See what yours looks like.

Real math

What This Looks Like for a
$275,000 a Month Trucking Profile

Same spend. Different strategy. Different outcome.

One year, on the calculator's defaults

Monthly card-able spend$275,000
Annual spend$3,300,000
Points on one card at 1x3,300,000
Points routed, caps applied6,588,000
Blended earn rate2.0x
Travel value at sticker, 85% redeemed, 3.0 cents$167,994
Valued honestly, 60% you would have bought anyway$120,956
Our fee, twelve months$6,600
Net, this year$114,356

Illustrative profile, not client data. Point valuations are estimates based on common redemption benchmarks; actual value depends on how and when you redeem. Bonus rates capped on published product terms, before card annual fees. Not a guarantee of any outcome and not financial or tax advice.

How it works

Four Steps to Full Optimization

No apps to download. No spreadsheets. Just a conversation.

01

Message us

4 questions. Takes 2 minutes.

02

We map everything

Cards, balances, credits, programs.

03

Get your game plan

Card stack, routing rules, bonus calendar.

04

We watch. You save time.

Proactive alerts, weekly digests, strategy.

Trusted across industries

The same routing, applied to 20 verticals. Different vendors, different coding, one set of published terms, our fee already out.

Restaurants. HVAC. Dental. Salons. Fitness. Landscaping. Veterinary. IT. Consulting. Cleaning. Property Management. Auto Repair. And yours.
Where the money actually goes

The 4 lines that decide a trucking year

Generic card advice sorts spending into dining, travel and office supplies. That is not what your P&L looks like. This is.

01

Diesel across fuel networks

The dominant line, and the one where the right card is worth thousands a year.

02

Tolls and scale fees

High frequency, low visibility, frequently on a personal card.

03

Maintenance, tires and parts

Lumpy, expensive, and worth deliberate routing.

04

Insurance and factoring costs

Large annual lines suited to bonus timing.

The cash cycle
Fuel is bought today and the load pays in 30 to 45 days.
The calendar
Freight rates and seasonal lanes swing revenue more than expenses.
A profile at $275,000 a month
Roughly $3,300,000 a year of card-able spend, and the routing decision on the lines above is worth more than every other optimization combined.
Coding varies by processor, location and how each vendor is registered, so we verify yours against real transactions during the free check rather than assuming.
Point valuations are estimates based on common redemption benchmarks. Actual value depends on how and when you redeem.

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