Posted by trucker40 on March 11, 2008 at 08:31:20 from (69.155.110.160):
In Reply to: Re: GAS at the pump posted by jdemaris on March 11, 2008 at 07:17:18:
My big truck has been parked since September.Part of the reason I am about half mad all the time.When the price of fuel went up the last time,brokers decided they wouldnt pay a fuel surcharge,I decided I wouldnt run without one.Not all of the shippers,but a lot of them.The big companies did pay a fuel surcharge,but they took their sweet time to pay it.The trouble is when its 3.00 a gallon that means the fuel surcharge,to be fair to me,needs to be about 40 cents a mile.So if freight costs 1.50 per mile,that means its 1.90 per mile.A bunch of brokers got together and decided its time for them to offer loads at a discount.I had many loads offered to me for 1.10 per mile,which is what we got when fuel was a dollar a gallon or less.Think I am obsessed with conspiracy?Also nobody is going to do anything about it,not congress,not the company,the only choice is quit,or go broke.It is a conspiracy to make you work for a big company at whatever they can get away with paying you.Next they will have Mexicans in the trucks driving them for nothing and cant even speak English or read it,already do. I live about 1/4 mile from the railroad tracks and there are at least 4 times more trains going through than there were.The trouble is there are container trains,coal trains,and hopper trains hauling grain,stuff that people like me dont haul anyway as I haul food.If it keeps on,looks like food is a low priority,at least with the crooks in charge for now.
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