Re: [BULK] Re: gas and fuel costs

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 05:46:32 PST


At 8:27 AM -0600 11/19/05, Sonny Heath wrote:
>Anyone with their eyes half open know that what
>you say is true but I want to know the reason
>why this is. Why am I required to pay almost
>twice what a trucker pays???

Because the truckers are probably given tax
breaks on the fuel costs OR they're given bulk
rates for buying fuel regularly from the same
vendors. One way to look at it is the trucking
company buys the fuel ahead of time, they just
don't take possession of it until later.

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