owner operators over the road: is the lower fuel prices helping you out

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by OldHasBeen, Jan 2, 2015.

  1. blessedman

    blessedman Light Load Member

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    If you are a leased owner/operator getting paid by the mile plus a fuel surcharge you may benefit from higher prices.

    If you operate as an independent with your own authority as I do most if not all your loads will be a flat rate. This way the cheaper the fuel the better your bottom line. The less you pay the better.

    As an independent of course I make more when fuel is cheaper. The hauling rates now are being driven more by supply and demand and less by the price of fuel.
     
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  3. mc8541ss

    mc8541ss Road Train Member

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    Even as an independent if you have long term contracts or you haul directly for shippers the fuel surcharge would help. If you are hauling for brokers, or spot freight not so much.
     
  4. skateboardman

    skateboardman Road Train Member

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  5. flood

    flood Road Train Member

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    again READ..... that was to Tommymonzy when he asked
    what I posted was how the FSC works NOT what mine is...
     
  6. mitchtazz

    mitchtazz Road Train Member

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    Truck drivers and math is always like watching a cat climb a curtain, interesting as hell, and someone always end up butt hurt.
     
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  7. HDFatboy

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    I have done specific loads before for X amount of money but lately the rates on these loads have dropped because of the fuel prices dropping. Even though I work in the spot market, the brokers have contracts with the shippers for set rates + FSC and therefore have to lower the rate.
     
  8. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    There are seasonal headwinds too:

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  9. OldHasBeen

    OldHasBeen Road Train Member

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    In my home town finally gas went below $2.00, 1st time in many years its been that cheap, in some places its now $1.99. But I've been buying my gas at Texarkana just east of State Line Avenue and about two weeks ago I paid $1.84 per gallon.
     
  10. skateboardman

    skateboardman Road Train Member

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    I guess back when fuel was less than a buck and fsc hadn't been invented we should have all starved to death.
     
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  11. skateboardman

    skateboardman Road Train Member

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    I did read it, youre giving an example of at two different price levels what a fuel surcharge would be , at the end of the example you raise the fuel surcharge from .45 to 60 to show a 15 cent increase in profit, in the example of fuel charge figures you would break even at higher costs.

    simply makes no sense.
     
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