Diesel prices keep on trucking

Cybergal · Mar 10, 2008

Diesel prices keep on trucking
3/10/08

Local diesel prices hit an average of $4.01 a gallon Sunday after some South Bay fueling stations jacked up prices nearly 20 cents over the weekend.

It was the first time the price of any fuel has shattered the four-bucks-a-gallon mark in Silicon Valley. All-time highs for both gas and diesel are being broken daily across California and the nation.
The diesel run-up that began Friday left motorists and truckers stunned - something that was hard to do following several weeks of soaring prices.
And it came after a week filled with bad economic news: Home foreclosures continued to rise, the jobless rate got worse, the dollar fell to record lows against the euro and the stock market went further into the tank. U.S. employers cut 63,000 jobs in February, the biggest drop in five years.

If you're fortunate to dodge those bullets, you may not dodge this one. While gasoline prices have caught the attention of motorists, it's the rising price of diesel that they should be more worried about because it hammers all consumers, from big rig haulers whose incomes are being eaten up by fuel prices to hybrid car owners paying more for groceries and other supplies that truckers deliver.
"The only thing my company can do is pass this increase along to the customers, who will need to mark up their product also," said Lindamar Morehouse, president of G&L Supply in Morgan Hill, which transports construction materials such as sand and gravel. "So the increase
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outlawwv · Mar 10, 2008

it's $4.10 here in west virginia

Semperfi66 · Mar 10, 2008

$4.24 gal for diesel in Alturas, Calif. today

Cybergal · Mar 10, 2008

High Diesel Prices Impact Truckers
3/10/08
WDEF News 12, TN

Most of us don't think about how our food and merchandise reaches its destination, but independent trucker Jessie Smith does.
Jessie Smith, "Small guys that own one to five trucks it's just definitely hurting us, our profits."
independent truckersMany independent truck drivers say the record high price of diesel fuel might put some of them out of business. Charles Monroe has been a driver for more than 30 years.
Monroe, "Since I've been driving fuel prices have tripled at least, it's about 600 dollars to fill this one up if she's empty."
David Blackburn says his boss owns one small truck, but even he's had to cut back as fuel prices increase. Blackburn, "It's 300 dollars per trip for less than five hundred miles, we used to do it twice a week but now we do it once a week."
With diesel prices at almost $4 per gallon, many drivers are cutting back or parking their trucks.
Smith, "If they got three or four trucks they're parking them and running just one and doing short hauls, the rate of the freight is not going up with the fuel prices. I'm doing mostly short hauls, they pay a little bit more per load and per mile and that helps with my fuel bill."
Smith says there's more freight in the summertime, so expect to see prices on everything inch even higher.
Smith, "Stuff you buy in the grocery store and at Wal Mart because the more freight you get the more competitive it gets to get drivers, because you have more freight than you have trucks."diesel fuel
Many truck drivers have taken a wait and see attitude. They expect to see both diesel and unleaded gas prices well over 4 dollars per gallon by summer.

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Matthews · Mar 10, 2008

Cybergal said: ↑

High Diesel Prices Impact Truckers
3/10/08
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No real Comment on this You all know how I feel about it...

WHEN drivers, WHEN!????

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