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GOLF COURSE FUEL DESK

Golf Course Fuel Desk Community™

Where superintendents and equipment managers share what fuel actually costs — and how deliveries actually go.

How sharing works today: the share forms below send your report straight to the Fuel Desk Team by email. We read every one, and standout prices and tips are featured on this page as the community grows. This page grows into its own board as the Desk grows — no fake posts, no pretend feed, just real reports from real courses.

What gets shared here

Fuel is the one bill every course pays every week, and nobody talks about it in the open. This is where that changes.

Share your last delivery

Your most recent load — price, gallons, county, and how it went. Area prices only help if courses report them, so be the first in your county.

“Share my delivery” opens your own email app with the report addressed to the Fuel Desk Team — you review it and press send. Nothing is stored by this page.

Share a tip or question

A tank or pump trick, an invoice habit, a question you want other supers to weigh in on — send it in.

“Share my tip or question” opens your own email app with your note addressed to the Fuel Desk Team — you review it and press send. Nothing is stored by this page.

Start here — guides from the Fuel Desk Team

Written by the Fuel Desk Team from the Fuel Desk research files, to get the first conversations started. Member reports join them as they come in.

FUEL DESK TEAM GUIDE

How a delivered fuel price is built

There is no shelf price for bulk fuel. Your delivered price is assembled on delivery day: the published rack price for your terminal city and exact product, plus your distributor's differential (its margin, in cents per gallon), plus freight to your tank, plus itemized taxes and fees at the exact statutory rates.

That is why two courses in two counties can pay different prices for the same fuel on the same day — and why the honest question is never “what's your price?” but “what's your differential, and off which rack?”

FUEL DESK TEAM GUIDE

Five lines to check on every fuel invoice

  1. Seller of record + FL fuel license # — the distributor's name and license should head the ticket.
  2. Exact product — grade and type spelled out (“ULSD Off-Road Dyed” is not “diesel”).
  3. Gross vs net gallons — both shown, with the billed measure marked.
  4. Rack reference + differential — the index, city, and plus figure your price was built from.
  5. Taxes itemized — each tax its own line; a dyed load should carry only the 0.1¢ federal LUST line plus sales tax, and the printed dyed-fuel notice.
FUEL DESK TEAM GUIDE

Dyed off-road diesel: record-keeping basics

Dyed diesel skips the highway fuel taxes because it is for off-road use only — and your paperwork is what proves the use. Keep it in its own labeled tank, never let it reach a vehicle registered for the highway, and keep every delivery invoice: the stack of tickets is your gallons record and your evidence if the off-road use is ever questioned.

Check that each dyed delivery's invoice carries the dyed-fuel notice — “Dyed diesel fuel, nontaxable use only” — and file it with the rest of that load's records.