Re: gas and fuel costs

From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 07:17:41 PST


hmmmmmm,,, and you're still in business? OOOOKAY

Sonny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Shannon" <fordpart@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] gas and fuel costs

> Sonny Heath wrote:
>
>> How can you say "the cost is being passed on to the trucking industry"
>> when, in fact, trucking companies are somehow getting as much as a dollar
>> a gallon discount on diesel fuel? I see advertisements and hear on
>> satelite radio all the time saying they will give $1.21 etc a gallon
>> rebate if owner operators will come haul for them?
>>
>> I don't understand it. You haven't heard one iota from truckers
>> complaining about the cost of fuel yet diesel prices on the boards are
>> twice what they were a short time ago.
>>
>> Sonny
>>
>>
>>>>>>
>>
> I pay 3.19 a gallon, plus $3000 for tags, $550 to the IRS and $400 a month
> insurance all of this per truck. Trucks DO NOT get a discount at the pump
> they DO NOT get any kind of cash back. If a truck does into another state
> they have to pay that states fuel tax as well as there own so you can stop
> feeling sorry for yourself for having to buy $50 of diesel a week to play.
>
> We did a load a couple of weeks ago and made almost $50 on the load that
> took 2 days to do and a trailer was destroyed in the process.
>
> Joe Shannon
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