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Perfect Fuel Prices!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by jasonb1, Mar 14, 2008.

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  1. Mar 23, 2008 #61
    Hilltop

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    You are totaly correct there ...Nice post.
     
    Hilltop, Mar 23, 2008
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  3. Mar 23, 2008 #62
    iowabmw

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    I have read 7 pages of some serious debates on this thread. I am seriously concerned about some of the posters here and their ideas.

    A strike will get us NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!! Just wait and see how the strike plays out. I mean what are you striking for exactly? Why don't we just strike with NOT HAULING CHEAP FREIGHT!

    Fuel prices are not our problem, the FREIGHT RATE is! Fuel prices are a expense for our operating cost, which means when we have a bigger expense our rate should go up.

    If it costs Walmart $1.00 for a loaf of bread and it suddenly went up to $2 what do you think they are going to do? Eat the cost, yeah right they are going to jack up what the consumers pay. So if it costs us $3 a gallon and the fuel jumped up to $4 a gallon then we need to charge more to the shippers!

    You won't see me striking, because I will be out there hauling the frieght making the big bucks and because I have no reason to strike!
     
    iowabmw, Mar 23, 2008
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  4. Mar 24, 2008 #63
    liner

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    Finally...someone gets it right!!!
     
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  5. Mar 24, 2008 #64
    mich_white_tiger

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    As a truck stop cashier, I am more than aware of what you are paying for fuel...all I am saying is that you are letting personalities interfere with intelligent discussion...
     
    mich_white_tiger, Mar 24, 2008
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  7. Mar 24, 2008 #65
    mich_white_tiger

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    More refinery storage would increase supply
     
    mich_white_tiger, Mar 24, 2008
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  8. Mar 24, 2008 #66
    liner

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    With fuel at $4.00 gal why in the world would anyone still run for a buck a mile and still expect to put food on the table.Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that maybe you need to raise you rates.!!
     
    liner, Mar 24, 2008
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  9. Mar 24, 2008 #67
    bametrucking

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    The biiggest part of the problem is the amount of brokers involved... These brokers have been driving the rates down... now they are starting to feel the pain, a lot of truckers have said "enough is enough"... it going to break...
     
    bametrucking, Mar 24, 2008
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  10. Mar 24, 2008 #68
    iowabmw

    iowabmw Medium Load Member

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    The brokers are not the problem, its the o/o's hauling the freight so cheap that is the problem. If you are a o/o and you haul a cheap frieght you are showing the shippers/brokers that you can get it hauled that cheap. if nobody hauls it that cheap it will obviously pay more.
     
    iowabmw, Mar 24, 2008
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  11. Mar 24, 2008 #69
    Hilltop

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    Yes the Brokers are part of the problem..They have a set amount of money there going to pay..And if you do not take there offer..Guess what. They will find someone that will haul cheaper..They do not care who you are
     
    Hilltop, Mar 24, 2008
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  12. Mar 24, 2008 #70
    Brickman

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    All too often that is the case.

    We've all heard the horror stories of brokers saying that this cheap rate on the load is as good as it gets. When come to find out the shipper was paying more than twice what the broker was saying that was the best rate they could get.

    There was an example on this very forum of a O/O that was barely able to squeze $1700 out of the broker. When he got to the dock he found out the shipper actually paid $3900. There is absolutely no call for this sort of greed and highway robbery from a broker.

    One load I hauled I found out later that the broker made more than $100 more than I did off of the load. Needless to say that was the last load I hauled for their company.
     
    Brickman, Mar 24, 2008
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