Houston-based 3L uses FleetPanda’s Unified Dispatch Platform to Streamline and Automate Operations across Companies
Uncovering the 3L Success Story Background Spec Oil, a leading fuel trading company, saw the potential for higher profit margins through expansion. This meant acquiring trucking companies to strengthen their distribution. So they acquired 3 major fuel delivery companies (3L being one of them), which they now run under the name 3L. To make this […]
WPMA and M-PACT 2023 Showed Petroleum Marketers How Rapidly Their Industry Is Modernizing
Downstream petroleum is one of the most mature industries around, but it’s been slow to adopt new technologies. This is starting to change, as the 2023 Western Petroleum Marketers Association (WPMA) Expo in Las Vegas and M-PACT Fuel & Convenience Tradeshow in Indianapolis showed. Cloud-based software companies in particular made a strong showing at both […]
Houston fuel distributor 3L Energy Solutions integrates three acquisitions into one large operation, plans to grow
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17, 2023 – 3L Energy Solutions merged three small fuel distributors into one 50-plus-truck operation by modernizing its logistics with FleetPanda, a unified dispatch platform. The move vertically integrates 3L Energy Solutions’ parent company, Spec Oil, into the downstream sector of oil and gas, where it can capture last-mile distribution’s potentially […]
Alex Salazar modernized 3L Energy Solution’s fuel operations, now he eyes 10x growth
Alex Salazar, Vice President of Operations at Houston-based 3L Energy Solutions, looked back on one of his most ambitious projects yet. “We turned three fuel distributors that were previously five- to 10-trucks big into one giant 50-, 60-truck operation,” he said. Two years before, Salazar worked in dispatch. He was an MBA grad eager to […]