Fuel card

A fuel card or gas card is a means of payment , published by the networks of service stations , which provides fleet management means on behalf of businesses ¹ . It allows companies to automatically track the fuel consumption of their fleet of vehicles ² . It may also have restrictive use criteria in terms of geographical area, amounts, types of fuels or days to avoid abuse ^2 , 3 . Fuel cards can be associated with a particular user or a particular vehicle ⁴. The fuel card is also an important management tool for car rental companies ⁴ .

If the fuel card can be perceived as a reduction or loyalty card , it has a cost: either by subscription or indexed to fuel consumption ⁴ .

Initially set up by the oil companies , such as Total in France, these cards have also been published for several years by large retailers, such as Intermarché which offers a card accepted in more than 1,400 stations in France, after that It has created and strongly developed its networks of gas stations ¹ . A trend of this market is the creation of fuel cards common to several networks of service stations such as the map of Esso , Avia (company) and Shell and the map common to Avia and BP ¹or the Ticket Fleet Pro card, marketed by Edenred, the inventor of the Ticket Restaurant. This card is accepted in more than 2,300 stations in France including retail stations.

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