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In February, gas and energy costs ranked ninth on small business owners' list of economic…
In February, gas and energy costs ranked ninth on small business owners' list of economic worries. Eleven percent named it.
SBE Council's new Check Up Survey, released this week, has it at number two. Twenty-nine percent. Only inflation ranks higher.
That's a fast move for a cost most owners don't manage as one number. It shows up in pieces: the fuel card, the utility bill, a surcharge on a supplier's invoice. Nobody owns it, so nobody sees the total.
For a lot of service businesses, the biggest lever isn't the price per gallon. It's the schedule. Trucks that cross town twice in a day. Jobs booked in the order the calls came in. A second trip for a part that should have been on the van.
Pull last month's fuel and energy spend into one line. Then put a week of routes next to it. The miles you don't need to drive are the cheapest ones to cut.
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