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SPECIAL REPORT * USA - ‘Hot fuel’ lawsuit filed in San Francisco
The issue of “hot fuel” is now before a federal court
USA -Land Line Magazine -Dec. 14, 2006: -- On Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, truckers and motorists from seven states filed a lawsuit seeking class action status in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, charging 17 oil companies and retailers with “consumer fraud” for allegedly selling hot fuel and not compensating the buyer... The federal lawsuit seeks the return of alleged overcharges to consumers and the installation of temperature compensation equipment on all fuel pumps... Eleven individual consumers are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. They are also contending that state laws meant to protect them are being violated by the fuel vendors and oil companies... Although the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is not a plaintiff, the national trucker association is strongly supporting the legal action. It was the research of OOIDA Project Leader John Siebert, with the help of OOIDA members collecting data on fuel temperatures and costs, which led to an expose via an investigative news series in the Kansas City Star by reporter Steve Everly... Siebert said it’s estimated that hot – or expanded – fuel costs consumers more than $2 billion per year...
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