Re: gas and fuel costs

From: Joe Shannon (fordpart@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 06:44:11 PST

Sonny Heath wrote:

> How can you say "the cost is being passed on to the trucking industry"
> when, in fact, trucking companies are somehow getting as much as a
> dollar a gallon discount on diesel fuel? I see advertisements and
> hear on satelite radio all the time saying they will give $1.21 etc a
> gallon rebate if owner operators will come haul for them?
>
> I don't understand it. You haven't heard one iota from truckers
> complaining about the cost of fuel yet diesel prices on the boards are
> twice what they were a short time ago.
>
> Sonny
>
>
>>>>>
>
I pay 3.19 a gallon, plus $3000 for tags, $550 to the IRS and $400 a
month insurance all of this per truck. Trucks DO NOT get a discount at
the pump they DO NOT get any kind of cash back. If a truck does into
another state they have to pay that states fuel tax as well as there own
so you can stop feeling sorry for yourself for having to buy $50 of
diesel a week to play.

 We did a load a couple of weeks ago and made almost $50 on the load
that took 2 days to do and a trailer was destroyed in the process.

Joe Shannon 

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