We just filled up the truck here in AZ 190 gallons 611.00.... :shock: :shock:

I was waching CNN the other day and this guy was on there saying that if the oil goes over 100.00 a barrel then by next year it may double!! If that happens we will be paying around 7.00 a gallon for fuel.

How on earth are the small O/O (under 10 trucks) going to make it?? Is this where all the O/O get squeezed out and the big carriers take over?? Just wondering how you guys are making it....

tootie

 

yeah no relief in sight huh.....were 3.50 here at TA in Ontario....think its gina be $4.00 by xmas i bet.

Wonder what my dirty lil secrets runnung?.....Royal truck stop at I-215 n I-10

They were 3.00 all summer when everyone else was 3.20

 

20% fuel surcharge

 

yeah biggest reason im considering leasing now.....f'n brokers always keep it!

 

Funny thing is even though they are much higher here on the East Coast then when I started a few months ago, coming from out West where I saw the prices at $3.69 then $3.11 seems cheap now. But that's only due to what I call the mattress effect.

I read once that when the Palestinian prisoners start complaining for more things, the Israelis go in and take everything out of their cell. So when they get things like their mattress back they are happy and stop complaining for what they were complaining for in the first place.

Always stuck in my head that thing, so now it's like I'm happy to be paying $3.11 which is crazy.

 

On October 10 2004, for the first time in my life, I've poured in my fuel tank, $2...a gallon.
It took's 3 year, and 20 days, for $3...a gallon turn, and i do remember fuel was under buck a gallon, just 8 years ago....trucks still running.... :wink:

 

$3.50 seems cheap for Ontario, Ca. They always have ridiculously high fuel prices there... I'm surprised they aren't milking it for $4/gal as it is.

 

It's an easy fix, (even the hollywood writers have figured it out), all the independents go on strike for one week, and then we'll have the undivided attention of the politicians, namely GW. GW then gets OPEC on the red phone and tells them to increase production, or else, we'll annex them.

Some will say the independents don't have that much power, but they're wrong. The big companies only make up a small percentage of the industry, some say around 5%. Even big companies are forced to outsource some of their freight because they cannot get enough drivers to drive for peanuts.

Plan B would go like this...... We all go to Laredo and block I-35 with a few thousand trucks. That would shut down a lot of industry (especially the dope industry),lol. Or maybe the ports. How about nothing gets through but oil tankers. That's right, no lead painted toys, no fireworks, no imported beef, etc. etc.

Bottom line is, we're just not desperate enough yet.

jonboy

 

Not that it is any of your business....we WORK first and then make the best of whatever situation we happen to be in....and NO we DONT haul cheap freight!!

I never said the high price of fuel was affecting us personally....although it most likely will no matter how smart we run.

What is the average idle time on your truck?? How about the one you have drivers for?? ours is less than 3%.

tootie