Fuel Monitoring System in Durg: Diesel Level for Plant and Estate Fleets

A fuel reading becomes useful only when the right person reads it. In a Durg fleet that usually means three people: the owner who pays for diesel, the transport manager who sends vehicles out, and the accounts clerk who settles trip bills. Trakzee Premium gives all of them the same underlying record, so nobody argues from a different number. Sub-users can be created with their own logins, which lets you give the manager live levels while billing summaries stay with the accounts desk.

The owner's view is the weekly total. Open the fuel and mileage report for the vehicles that serve the plant-supplier units and compare litres used with kilometres run. One truck sitting well apart from its neighbours on the same shuttle is a question worth asking, whether the cause turns out to be driving style, a long queue at a gate or something wrong with the engine. The report does not accuse anyone. It tells you where to look first.

The transport manager lives in the live screen and the alerts. A bus on a campus run or a plant shift should show a steady fall across the day. If a vehicle's level drops sharply while its location stays still, he can call the driver while the event is fresh, and the time stamp lets him ask a specific question instead of a vague one. Refill entries also tell him whether a vehicle left the depot with a full tank or a thin one.

The accounts clerk wants dates, litres and distances in one place. Day-wise fuel records, refill entries and trip distance can be matched against pump slips and against the trip payment owed to a driver or a sub-contractor. Because the same record carries the vehicle's location, a disputed claim such as an extra detour can be checked on the same screen. Fix one weekly slot for this review so the data is actually read and not just collected.

BearTech works from Bhopal, so in Durg the fitting is carried out by an executive who comes to your vehicle. The package is delivered in around two working days if stock allows, and the visit date is then agreed with you. The client pays for the executive's travel and stay, and BearTech tells you the amount before you order, so the final bill holds no surprise. The full price is paid at installation, while COD with a token amount is an option for places outside Bhopal.

On the day, the sequence is fixed. The executive checks the tank and the fuel, makes a small opening in the upper surface of the tank, cuts the probe to the tank's depth, then fixes and seals it. The FMB920 is wired to the vehicle and linked to the sensor, by cable or by Bluetooth. Calibration follows, and your vehicle is added to Trakzee Premium with a login for the phone and for a computer.

Calibration is the step an owner should watch. Fuel readings are matched to actual litres so that the platform shows true quantity for that particular tank, and the vehicle should stand on level ground while this is done. In a Durg yard, pick a flat spot and keep the vehicle free for the whole visit, because a truck called away halfway through spoils the session. The handover ends with a live check of the level and the alerts with you present.

Plan for later changes too. If the tank is replaced or repaired, or the sensor is taken out and refitted, calibration has to be repeated, and recalibration after such tank work is chargeable. Service visits after installation are chargeable as well, with travel and stay paid by the client outside Bhopal. For login, alert and report questions, support is reachable on 99937 84035 during working hours, and 97526 44035 remains the main call and WhatsApp line.

Mileage is simply kilometres divided by litres, and a fuel sensor finally supplies the litres figure for each vehicle without relying on a driver's word. In Durg the fair way to use it is to compare like with like: two trucks on the same supplier shuttle, with similar loads, over the same week. Anything else mixes too many causes together to teach you much. Write the pairs down in a simple sheet, so that next month's numbers have something fair to be compared with.

NH-53 offers a clean benchmark. A run towards Raipur or towards Rajnandgaon is a defined stretch, so the distance report and the fuel record for each trip can be set side by side. Keep a short note of the load and the driver. If a truck burns noticeably more on the same stretch with a similar load, check tyre pressure, idling at the gate and the route taken before assuming anything darker.

Gate waits distort mileage figures. A plant-side queue can keep an engine running for an hour while the odometer hardly moves, and that hour shows up as idle time in the Trakzee reports. Splitting idle consumption from running consumption lets an owner see whether the problem is the road or the queue, which matters when negotiating loading slots or deciding whether a particular supplier job is worth its diesel. Even a small saving of idle hours across several trucks adds up over a season of gate queues.

Short city duty behaves differently. Cabs near the Junction and buses on campus loops make many stops, so fuel per kilometre will look worse than on a highway. Compare a vehicle with itself across several weeks, and with a similar vehicle on a similar duty, never a bus against a long-haul truck. After a month of such comparisons you will know what normal looks like for each job in your fleet.

Fixed duty patterns make routines easy. Supplier trucks shuttle between plant-side units and the estates, staff buses follow shift timings, and campus buses follow a timetable. Pick one weekly slot, say Friday evening, and look at three things for every vehicle: litres used against distance, refill entries against the pump slips, and any sharp drops together with their times. Ten disciplined minutes beat an hour of scattered checking. Put the slot in the calendar like any other meeting, so that it survives busy weeks and a changed shift.

Talk to drivers with the data in hand, not with suspicion. If a bus shows a sharp fall at an hour when it should have been parked, ask what happened and listen; a leak, a mis-read gauge or a legitimate refill elsewhere can all explain it. The point is to build a habit where drivers know the level is visible, and where they bring odd events to the dispatcher before the report does.

Use alerts for the exceptions and reports for the pattern. A sudden-drop alert should reach the person who will actually act on it, with a named backup if he is off duty. Agree in advance what the first call says and what the vehicle does next. Without this agreement, alerts pile up unread, and the owner assumes he is covered when he is not. Name a backup person too, because the one night nobody answers is usually the night it matters.

At month end, line up each vehicle's total litres, distance and idle hours against the previous month. Pass a brief note on the numbers to drivers and supervisors. Note vehicles that stood unused while still showing fuel use, and routes that keep running late. Over a few months, this simple rhythm teaches you which jobs are worth taking, which drivers need coaching, and which vehicles are due for a mechanical check.

Price per vehicle first. For ₹19,999 you receive the Teltonika FMB920 tracker, a fuel level sensor of your pick, fitting, Trakzee Premium software, an Airtel SIM and a one-year warranty with AMC. Software and SIM renewal begins in year two at ₹3,000 per vehicle yearly. Tracked across three years, one vehicle totals ₹19,999, ₹22,999 and ₹25,999 at the end of years one, two and three. Those three totals are per vehicle, and they are the building blocks of any fleet sum below.

Now take a worked example for a fleet of nine diesel vehicles, say trucks on supplier shuttles and a few buses. On day one, nine packages come to 9 × ₹19,999 = ₹1,79,991. This is an illustration built only from list prices, not a customer story, and the real figure for your order is confirmed by BearTech after the vehicle and tank check, since price may vary as per requirements.

Year two adds the renewal for all nine vehicles: 9 × ₹3,000 = ₹27,000, which brings the running total to ₹2,06,991. Year three adds another ₹27,000, so after three years the fleet total is ₹2,33,991. That equals nine times the single-vehicle figure of ₹25,999. Renewing on time matters, because live data and fuel readings can stop if the service period lapses. Set a reminder a few weeks before each anniversary, so the renewal is paid without any last-minute rush.

Remember what sits outside the package. For Durg, an executive travels from Bhopal, and the travel and stay charges are paid by the client and confirmed before you order, so add that line to the budget. A second tank or sensor on the same vehicle is quoted separately. Judge the spend against your own diesel bill and your own disputes, and call 97526 44035 for the latest fleet price. That final figure can differ from a list-price sum, which is why a quote before ordering is worth having.

When the tank level rises, Trakzee Premium logs a refill entry with the date, the time and the approximate quantity added. That entry is independent of what the driver reports. Put it beside the pump slip and you have two records of the same event. Most of the time they agree closely, and the few times they do not are exactly the events an owner should look into. The refill log is therefore a second witness, one that never forgets a date and never argues.

Routes in this area give drivers more than one place to fill. A truck may take diesel at a depot tank before leaving a yard, or at a roadside pump on NH-53 on its way to Raipur or Rajnandgaon. Whichever it is, the refill entry shows where the vehicle stood when the level rose, so the accounts desk can see whether the slip's pump and the vehicle's position agree. Where both agree, the accounts desk can tick the line and move on to the next vehicle.

Treat small gaps as normal. Fuel moves about right after a fill, readings settle once the vehicle stands still, and tank shape affects how a level maps to litres. A large gap deserves a calm enquiry: was the tank filled partly, was a second vehicle's slip attached by mistake, or was the reading taken while the vehicle was on a slope? Ask first and conclude later. A calm question with the slip and the graph on the table settles most mismatches within minutes.

A simple process keeps this working. Ask drivers to hand in every pump slip with the vehicle number, date and litres. The accounts clerk matches slips to refill entries once a week and notes any refill that has no slip, or any slip that has no refill. Share exceptions with the transport manager, who speaks to the driver. After a few weeks the exceptions fall, because the record is visible to everyone.