Your crew, your numbers
Every field is yours to edit — the numbers below change as you type. Fields marked illustrative default are your own estimate, not a Propane Insider claim.
Your own headcount — everybody who works out of a truck, not out of the office.
Count the whole trail — the ticket at every stop, the inspection sheet, the work order, and whatever gets re-keyed at the office. A driver runs 15 to 40 stops a day.
45-60 minutes a day is our own published estimate on tankspotter.com — our figure, not a survey. We start you at the low end. Edit it to your crew.
Your calendar, not an industry figure — the days your crew is actually out, after weekends, holidays, and time off.
Pre-filled from the national average delivery-driver wage: $29.08/hr (Gray, Gray and Gray, 2025, National Propane Industry Survey). Loaded cost — payroll taxes, benefits, insurance — runs higher than wage. Edit it to yours.
What your numbers add up to
Built from your inputs above. This is what paperwork costs your crew today — not a promise about what any app gets back, ours included. No price for our product, anywhere.
Our own published estimate for a typical 8-person crew at a full hour a day is $57,600 a year (tankspotter.com). This page starts you at 45 minutes, not 60 — lower than our own marketing on purpose. Our estimate, not a survey, and not a guarantee.
One field day = one person, one 8-hour day. Your crew size × your minutes ÷ 60 × your workdays ÷ 8. At the numbers this page starts with: 8 × 45 ÷ 60 × 240 ÷ 8 = 180 field days.
Every number above is arithmetic on the fields you entered — paperwork hours = your crew size × your minutes ÷ 60 × your workdays; cost = those hours × your own hourly figure; field days = those hours ÷ 8. No hidden multiplier. An estimate of what paperwork costs your crew today — not a guarantee, and not a measured TankSpotter result.
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