Freight now runs on real fuel
Every shipment now bills a fuel surcharge for the litres it actually burns, at the market gasoline price — carrier rate cards are pure freight margin.
Shipping quotes were quietly ignoring the biggest cost of the haul: fuel. A delivery could burn hundreds of litres of Gasoline while billing a fee that barely covered a jerrycan — player carriers were hauling at a loss.
From now on, every shipping quote is freight + fuel:
- Freight is the carrier's rate card — base fee, handling, and per-km rates. That's the carrier's margin, and for player logistics companies it's yours to set on the Distribution Center's Logistics tab.
- Fuel is a pass-through surcharge: the litres the haul actually burns (by distance, weight, and bulk), billed at the going gasoline price on your country's exchange. When fuel prices move, shipping follows automatically.
The carrier picker now shows each quote's fuel cost next to the litres, and the national carriers' 2× premium applies to freight only — fuel is at cost for everyone. If you run a logistics company, this is good news: the surcharge finally reimburses the Gasoline your vans consume, so hauling pays instead of bleeding.
Expect delivery fees to reflect true costs — and expect goods that travel far to cost more in the shops.