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Missing gallons

Paid for, and not in a tank.

This is the loss owners mean when they say fuel is walking away. The card was charged. No fleet tank took the gallons. Everything else is a different problem.

Three labels, and only three

Verified in a tank. Needs review, with evidence. Unverifiable. I do not keep a fourth bucket called suspicious so that hard fills can be dumped there.

A wrong unit number with gallons in a fleet tank is not this page. A sensor that jumps is not this page. This page is the fill that still has nowhere to go.

The example, labeled as an example

On the sample Monday report, 340 gallons and $2,220 were bought and never showed in a tank. 81.4 percent of that example week sat in a fleet tank, and 88 percent could be checked. Those figures are an example. Names were changed. They are not a promise for the next fleet.

I will not invent a single stolen-gallon total that the source records do not support. If your week does not reconcile on the first pass, the unclear fills stay unclear.

What I look for

Before a gallon is called missing

01

Card gallons

The purchase, not a rounded weekly total.

02

Tank movement

A change that could hold those gallons.

03

Another unit

The fuel might be in a different truck because of a typo.

Short answers

Before you book.

Next step

Let's count gallons that never arrived.

If the audit does not pay, we stop. You keep whatever the two weeks found.

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