Truck Owners ANGRY and Scared Over Fuel Costs

[mxell]

sorry i didnt say im not a trucker, i was merely commenting on our gas prices, as for the milage and rates i dont know, i cant see our trucks getting any better milage as we mostly have coe trucks here

[MedicineMan]

in that case let me inform you a lil bit okay. Mr. Bronc was just talking about pulling a load that would pay $1.10 a mile to the truck. I hauled for that same rate in 1994 when diesel fuel was $.82 gallon. Now it's at $4.00 a gallon. Back then I would not run for less than $1 mile. I doubt I need to get into the equipment cost increses in that same time not to mention insurance and shop rates. That nuber alone is frightening enough

[550hpW900L]

Set a date, ill park in front of the white house, hell ill be the first one there with my 4mpg W900!

[broncrider]

huh....i never see that many cab overs in boise,ID, USA!!!

sorry not trying to be mean, but it does say yer from boise, not the uk

i dont imagine rates are much better, if at all

and i really dought fuel mileage is any better

[broncrider]

not the white house....that phony freakin flower garden they plant on the lawn in montana is where i'll be

at least then ill be in my hometown jail where my family can come see me.....lol

[mxell]

yeh sorry i used to live in boise, were now in the uk, like i said i dont know anything aout rates here but i can try and find out, not that it really matters but it would be an interesting comparison.

[MedicineMan]

I know there fuel mileage isn't better. May be worse. But they also only work a few hours a day which is what I'm getting at. I wonder how many UK driver have ever seen 4000 us miles in a week so there obviously not going to have th fuel expense we do

[Brickman]

Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Thank you for your insightful post. I am by no means the smartest here, but I have do have some experiences to share. I like the idea of an O/O consortium. Strength in numbers was the premises of Labor Unions. But an O/O consortium is not out to "run" a company but rather negotiate a deal with shippers that benefits all parties to included the shippers' customers. If we have a deal to truck at say x amount pm and that is higher than what the "low-rates" will run, we have to justify our rates. We must have that shipper/customer walk away from the table satisfied that they will receive exactly what they paid us to do. We as O/O's must set the bar higher and deliver as promised. Trucking is every much a profession as a dentist, MD., lawyer, or an accountant.

Let's start acting that way.

If OOIDA was REALLY for the driver like they claim they would be leading the charge in changing the industry. But really they are a big group of lawyers looking for their next easy score thru a lawsuit.

Take their suit against Landstar for example......... didn't do a bit of good other than cost a lot of court time and wasted money as the case was eventually thrown out because they didn't have a leg to stand on.

[MedicineMan]

Originally Posted by mxell

yeh sorry i used to live in boise, were now in the uk, like i said i dont know anything aout rates here but i can try and find out, not that it really matters but it would be an interesting comparison.

Don't worry. I want to run away from this country too.

There is drivers from the UK on this bard. It's be faster to just pm them

[mxell]

like i say i dont know what sort of milage they do a week but most are international so they go all over europe not just the uk as its only a 90 min ferry crossing to france