Heating Oil Monitor

Scheduling heating oil deliveries used to be simpler.  But now, more than 23% of heating oil customers use ancillary heat sources – heat pumps, pellet or wood stoves, space heaters – you name it.

It’s impossible to tell when they start using fuel in fall, when they end in spring, and when they supplement in between.  A nationwide study of heating oil deliveries found the average company is losing money with every truck.  41% of all deliveries are either too small to make money, or too large to feel safe*  What’s more, during cold snaps, it’s impossible to properly triage who should get priority deliveries and who can wait.