Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 3.1% in September, Statistics Canada said on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. Strip out gasoline and the number is 2.2%. That gap is the story for anyone running trucks or excavators: fuel is the cost that moved.
What the numbers say
- Pump prices for gasoline were up 27.8% year over year in September, according to Statistics Canada as reported by CBC News.
- Diesel is up nearly 80% over the past year, according to Kalibrate pump-price data cited by CBC.
- Excluding gasoline, consumer prices rose 2.2% year over year, so the pressure so far is concentrated in energy rather than spread across the economy.
- The Bank of Canada announces its next rate decision on Oct. 28, and economists quoted by CBC describe it as a difficult balance.
Read the full report: CBC News, "Inflation rises to 3.1% in September, as fuel prices push higher: StatsCan" (Oct. 19, 2026).
Where fuel cost gets lost
When diesel jumps, the cost lands on the truck the same day. The recovery usually does not. A fuel surcharge that is agreed on the phone, remembered at the end of the week, and typed into an invoice a month later is a surcharge that gets argued about, shaved, or forgotten.
The fix is not complicated: record the charge at the time the work happens, on the same ticket as the load, so it travels with the paperwork instead of living in someone's memory.
How this works in Tragget
In Tragget's invoicing you can add a custom line to a specific ticket, for example a fuel surcharge with a description, units and rate. That line becomes part of that ticket's invoice. It is a manual line you add, not an automatic fuel-index calculation, so you stay in control of the rate you charge each customer.
If your surcharge is currently a note on a paper ticket or a text message, moving it onto the digital ticket is one of the cheaper ways to stop fuel cost from leaking out of the invoice.
Source for all figures above: CBC News, Oct. 19, 2026, citing Statistics Canada and Kalibrate.