Fuel prices

Maybe rates will bump up on Oct the 1st because of the "strike", and I'll go to work that day. Maybe....

 

300 gallon between the 2 tanks, little over 1/2 a tank….

 

Got a phone call yesterday from a friend who is outside the trucking industry, wanted to know if what he was hearing about a truckers strike was true, I guess the general public are listening too….

 

Have you heard of The Prisoner's Dilemma?

 

Yes, let's make ourselves a political scapegoat. Once the infrastructure and technology is closer to ready for autonomous driving they will bring this up too.

 

Honestly, fuel prices suck right now. That said im also not sure why anyone is suprised. We have had several major surges in fuel prices since obum and historically this is not the first nor will it be the last time this happens so long as we rely on forign oil often from at best unfriendly or outright bostile countries and refuse to extract our own and build modern refinerys to handle that type of oil. Frankly even if trump hadnt caused it, it would have been someone or something else eventually.

Me personally i always do my budget assumeing fuel prices can triple at any point and i have enough cards in my back pocket that shy of a complete economic collapse and my customers drying up ill be fine. Other companys or shoestrings....well good luck i guess

 

What a bunch of hot air. Company drivers can't strike. Foreign driver are uninterested. The only ones that can are independent drivers. From what I see they are in a vast minority. Only thing that'll bring down fuel is a conclusion to the war. I don't see how a trucking strike will get all combatants to come to terms

 

I was going to say, I don't even understand who exactly this strike would be appealing to. Is there any power that can unilaterally lower diesel prices?

 

I agree. I'd like to add, that although company drivers don't pay for the fuel directly, it still has a negative effect on all of our industry. Not to mention that ultimately the costs are passed down to the consumers. It seems like the American public is resigned to griping about it but they don't feel like they can change anything for the better at the ballot box this November, or any November, for that matter.
I feel like most people I know. It's one big sh*te sandwich and we all gotta take a bite no matter how bad it tastes.