From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Nov 20 2005 - 12:23:18 PST
Frank, Ryan, Joe, Everette, Kenny and anyone else who made sensible
contribution to the latest thread on fuel prices,
I really appreciate the input from you guys, it has straightened out a lot
of ( "I wonder's") for me. I know you all remember a few years ago when
fuel prices spiked up suddenly and the truckers shut off their engines and
convoyed to certain places to protest, well I was just wondering why they
didn't take that route this time but it appears that they are getting
certain relief, the big ones anyway, through this surcharge option and
upfront buying, and some of the smaller ones are "going south" Too bad but
I guess they can haul for the big boys and not make as much per mile if they
so choose.
I apologize for the part of the thread that became witless whinning instead
of positive input but as you all know, there is one in every crowd and yes,
I was honest about a month ago when I made comment that it would cost me a
grand to fill my RV Toter tanks when empty, each tank holds 160 gallons.
Sure glad to see it drop a little in the last few days.
Thanks again, many Thanks,
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: <grntrks@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] gas and fuel costs
> Sonny,
> With all due respect, here is what I found out from many sources.
> 1. Owner/Operators ( of the 18 wheelers, Doesn't apply to O/O's of small
> hot-shot rigs ) are being paid a surcharge for the cost of fuel above a
> bench mark price per mile.
>
> 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.
>
> 3. The smaller trucking outfits ( say 1 to 4 rigs, etc. ) are shutting
> down or selling out. I know of 4 operations personally so you won't be
> talking to these O/O's at the truck stops 'cause they aren't there
> anymore.
>
> We shut down in Feb '05 'cause we couldn't sustain the cost of fuel plus
> $600.00 per month insurance just to run intrastate LTL freight.
>
> I buy my fuel ( diesel ) just like everyone else and had to do the same
> when in business, I'm just not on the highway as many miles as before. I
> do not know of any LTL , independant trucker with 1 rig that gets the
> surcharge unless they are leased to a company. Joe Shannon hit the nail
> dead on.
>
> Frank Cox
> Vietnam 1966, USAF
> MVPA 14530
> 1945 GMC 353 DUKW "DUKTAPE"
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:13:51 -0600 "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
> writes:
>> Thats the first I've seen of the post from Joe Shannon. Did he send
>> that
>> post to our list? hmmm wonder why I missed that,
>>
>>
>> Okay Joe, tell me why you are the VERY FIRST I've heard from a
>> trucker
>> concerning the price of fuel? When I go in to Flying J with my
>> sixty series
>> Freightliner (my play toy) and pay a thousand dollars to fill it up
>> I hear
>> all kinds of pick up and car owners complaining about the high cost
>> of fuel
>> but when I sit in the drivers lounge or the restaurant I hear
>> ABSOLUTELY
>> NOTHING from the truckers concerning the cost of fuel being twice
>> what it
>> was a short time ago.
>>
>> I say there MUST be a subsidy somehow and they have been asked to
>> keep it
>> quiet, nothing else makes sense to me.
>>
>> Sonny
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] gas and fuel costs
>>
>>
>> At 8:44 AM -0600 11/19/05, Joe Shannon wrote:
>> >>
>> >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.
>>
>> Joe, after looking at the stuff like IFTA, IRP
>> and the amount of paperwork, I don't know how you
>> guys do it.
>>
>>
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