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^ Top   #1   11.26.2007

Redwolf Light Load Member   Last Seen: 2 Minutes Ago 02.21 AM Member Since: Jan 2007 Location: IL Trucker? 3 Years Age: 42 Posts: 292 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 12 Times

Diesel's surge stings truckers Think filling up the SUV for a Thanksgiving road trip is expensive these days? Consider the plight of Chuck Ahn. At $3.46 a gallon for diesel fuel, Ahn, a driver for Key City Transport Inc. of Dubuque, Iowa, spent about $1,000 on Tuesday filling the twin 150-gallon tanks on his rig at the Flying J truck stop off Interstate 255 in Alorton, Ill. — a daily routine on his 2,000-mile trek from California to the Chicago suburbs to deliver furniture. [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. __________________ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood;." THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne,1910)

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^ Top   #2   11.27.2007

Dry Throat Bobtail Member   Last Seen: 04.17.2008 08.44 AM Member Since: Nov 2007 Location: Machelen, Belgium Trucker? 23 Years Age: 47 Posts: 6 My Trucking Photos: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked: 0 Times

here in belgium we pay about 1,25€ (that is about $1,85) for 1 liter, when i fill up my truck when it's empty it costs my boss about 1250€ ($1,857.56) this i have to do every 2 days, my truck consumes around 100 liter/100km when it's fully loaded, when i can drive empty (doesn't happen much) it is still around 50 liter/100km.reason for this here in belgium is the high taxes that are on it

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myminpins MIA (Banned or Retired)   Last Seen: 04.08.2008 12.01 PM Member Since: Sep 2007 Location: Dartmouth, NS, Canada Trucker? Trucker's Significant Other Age: 44 Posts: 1,941 My Trucking Photos: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked: 9 Times

It's up to $1.14/litre here in Canada so we're catching you very quickly!!

^ Top   #4   11.27.2007

Bayle Light Load Member   Last Seen: 01.26.2009 06.53 PM Member Since: Aug 2007 Location: Ma Trucker? 0-1 Year Age: 36 Posts: 155 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

But it's all relative as shipping costs etc... are set to some extent, and the prices rising so quickly it can be difficult to adjust the cost of shipping accordingly. There are the fuel surcharges that companies charge yes, but they usually aren't keeping up, and it's even more difficult for the O/O because they won't get a bulk discount like many of the large companies, and with so much fuel use, those few pennies help out.

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