by A Crude Estimate
Road Transport Contractual Chain Order · Fuel Cost Recovery 2026

Know the exact week the fuel-cost recovery duty switches on.

The Order's recovery obligations apply only while the AIP weekly national diesel terminal gate price sits at or above $2.00/L. Levy Watch tracks that one number and tells you, with a dated record, precisely when the duty is ON so you start (and stop) recovering on the right week.

What it does

One published number, watched for you, turned into a decision you can cite.

01

Live ON / OFF state

A single, unambiguous read of whether the recovery duty is currently switched on, with the latest index value and how far it sits from the $2.00/L line.

02

Dated flip log

Every week the index crossed the line and flipped the duty on or off. Dated and sourced: the record a shipper or carrier can point to.

03

Alert on every flip

We email you the moment the duty switches, so a recovery window never opens or closes without you knowing.

How it works

The Order (in force 21 April 2026) makes fuel-cost recovery a duty across the road-freight chain, and switches it off when the AIP weekly average national diesel TGP falls below $2.00/L. That figure is published weekly by the Australian Institute of Petroleum. Levy Watch reads the official series, applies the switch rule, and shows you the result. The rule is held as a setting, not an assumption: the current reading is single-week, and the TWU has proposed a four-consecutive-week rule, so we track both. A week with no published figure is left blank, never guessed.

Levy Watch is the free tier

Two paid tiers turn the indicator into a working recovery tool.

Free

Levy Watch

The live ON/OFF tracker, the dated flip log, and flip alerts. This page.

Levy Pro

Rise & fall calculator

Turn the index into per-invoice recovery amounts, with a printable certificate you can attach to a claim.

Chain Assurance

Shipper audit

Reconcile billed levy lines across a whole contract portfolio, with variance and a full evidence trail.

Want Pro or Chain Assurance? Talk to us.

Get the alert the moment it flips

Free. Leave your email and we notify you when the recovery duty switches on or off. No sign-in needed for alerts.

Prefer to look now? Open the live tracker.