Every trip to site burns fuel you rarely put a number on. Work out what a run costs from distance, your vehicle’s economy and the pump price — per trip, week and year.
Add travel and fuel to your job costs in traqR so the drive to site is priced in — not quietly eating your margin on every job.
Start free trialDistance divided by 100, times your litres-per-100km, gives the litres a trip burns. A return trip is double the one-way distance.
Litres times the price per litre is the fuel cost of the trip. It’s the number that quietly rises every time prices jump.
Multiplied across the trips you do each week and the weeks you work, small per-trip costs add up to a serious line on your budget.
Multiply the distance by your vehicle’s fuel consumption (litres per 100 km) divided by 100 to get the litres used, then multiply by the price per litre. For example, a 80 km return trip in a ute using 10 L/100km burns 8 litres — about $15.60 at $1.95 a litre.
Use your vehicle’s real-world figure, not the brochure number. A loaded work ute or van typically uses 9–13 L/100km, and towing or lots of stop-start city driving pushes it higher. Checking your own fill-ups against kilometres travelled gives the most accurate figure.
If travel is a real cost of doing the job — and it is — it should be recovered somewhere, either as a call-out fee, a travel line on the quote, or built into your charge-out rate. Absorbing it silently on every job is one of the most common ways trades leak margin.
No — this is fuel only. The full cost of running a vehicle also includes rego, insurance, servicing, tyres, finance and depreciation, which together often cost more than the fuel. Use our vehicle running cost calculator for the complete picture.
This calculator is a general estimate. Actual fuel use varies with load, driving style, terrain, traffic and vehicle condition, and pump prices change constantly. Use your own real-world economy and current prices for the most accurate result.
Add travel and fuel to job costs in traqR so the trip to site is covered, not quietly eating your margin. Try it free for 14 days.