FEMA loads - reasonable daily rates?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by windsmith, Oct 30, 2012.

  1. cominghomesc

    cominghomesc Light Load Member

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    Do you want me to PM my address to you to mail a check to I need some help and it is not my fault.

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  3. gokiddogo

    gokiddogo Road Train Member

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    Perhaps that is why she lives in the truck with her man ...... To each their own, I guess ...
     
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  4. afterburn25

    afterburn25 Medium Load Member

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    no that is such bs we are being screwed all year long on crap rates everyone else is capitalizing during disasters and the government is more then happy to pay it i didnt ask to make 6k on a 1300 mile run up here hqauling a generator it was offered to me i never even quoted the rate you would be a terrible business person if you didnt take advantage of the situation
     
  5. afterburn25

    afterburn25 Medium Load Member

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    trust me generators are the way to go there in a hurry for them you wont be sitting long
     
  6. afterburn25

    afterburn25 Medium Load Member

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    compassion doesnt pay the bills we are in this business to make money end of story. i am up here in NJ working my tail off for every penny i am making traffic is horrible fuel is scarce cars drive more aggressively and have less patients then normal and you mean to tell me i should have compassion lol theese are the same people a lot of them own businesses and you think they will care about me when it comes to there business? its nothing personal its just business.
     
  7. gokiddogo

    gokiddogo Road Train Member

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    Yeah and the fuel you do manage to find is priced at about $8.75 per gallon. That gas station owner is real compassionate too.
     
  8. ironpony

    ironpony Road Train Member

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    Now that is price-gouging, and its rather expensive if you get prosecuted for it.
     
  9. afterburn25

    afterburn25 Medium Load Member

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    yes fuel prices are somewhat regulated by the government they cant just up and raise it that high with out good reason however supply and demand can raise prices but has to be a gradual increase and they cant do it without approval fyi gas stations dont really make much off the fuel anyway
     
  10. gokiddogo

    gokiddogo Road Train Member

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    Yeah I understand that part. Was just trying to make a point of the supply and demand thing. I'm pretty sure gas stations are told what to set the price at and get paid for how many gallons are dispensed. I don't see how it would be possible for an owner to actually own the fuel in the ground in his tanks - with having say $50,000 or more worth of fuel down there, if the price rises or falls then the competition around him will crush him. I'm not sure if this is how it works, but it'd be how I would run it.
     
  11. afterburn25

    afterburn25 Medium Load Member

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    well it maybe going up soon just heard on cb there out of fuel everywhere and were moving tons of generators and yet they have no way to fuel them lol
     
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