Don't Service Fleet Accounts - Corp won't pay you

Fleet. Express Fleet. It doesn't matter. Central Billing is the equivalent of "we got it you don't get it." Almost every owner I've talked to on this subject is outraged. When you service a fleet account you take only get paid a reduced "national fleet" amount. Then you'll receive a reduced payment on that amount since the corporate fleet department negotiated the national fleet account. Then if corporate can convince the national fleet ot let corporate collect all monies and pay out to the franchisee, corporate will hit you for another fee. Together these fees usually amount to 10+%. But you'll wait 30-60 days for payment, and you'll have to go into attack mode to finally get them to release the money. By the way, if a fleet account goes into financial trouble, you might not get paid at all. If the fleet has any money, Corporate will pay themselves first, the Express guys second, and if there are pennies left over they might pay the rest of us. Now you can avoid this by signing up for Fleet Express Pay - you'll pay an additional 2% but you're supposed to get you money in five business days. But you'll still have to call and demand your money. And if Corporate gets behind in their cash flow, you won't get that money for weeks (but you'll still lose the 2%) or longer, depending on how loud you scream. these guys are a joke. and they'll rape your bank account while telling you how grateful you should be.