From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 20 2005 - 09:18:12 PST
At 8:55 PM -0600 11/19/05, grntrks@juno.com wrote:
>
>2. Some large trucking companies are collecting the surcharge and buying
>their fuel under contract at lower prices. I read of one national company
>that made several million dollars in fuel surcharges alone last year (
>2004). The fuel was contracted prior to the rapid price increases of
>late, so the contracted price remains valid.
This is still a gamble. Prices could continue to
rise they buy their new batch of fuel/contract at
the higher price and then prices drop. They
charge a surcharge then, and they'll loose
customers.
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