Civil penalties for Hours-of-Service and DOT driver violations in petroleum transport fleets

$100,000–$300,000 annually (hazmat violations up to $194,691 per violation; marine fuel is regulated hazmat; multiple violations per year typical) • $100,000–$300,000 per year in combined FMCSA penalties (multiple drivers, repeated violations) plus 20–30% insurance cost increase; operational downtime from out-of-service orders. • $12,000–$55,000 annually (equipment downtime from fuel shortages; premium fuel purchases for urgent refueling; margin compression from passed-through hauler costs; administrative time managing supplier relationships)

AR manager manually tracks out-of-service vehicle impacts via Excel, estimates revenue loss via phone calls to dispatch, adjusts customer invoices manually post-facto • AR manager reconciles out-of-service events manually via dispatch phone calls, estimates delay impact in Excel, negotiates extended payment terms verbally with fuel customers • Convenience store manager coordinates deliveries via phone calls to independent driver; no ELD or real-time compliance monitoring; fuel delivery logs kept in handwritten receipt books