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FUEL COST TROUBLES * USA - Truckers to rally, discuss protests
Independent truck driver Mark Kirsch is organizing a regional rally to bring attention to rising diesel and gasoline prices
Lebanon,PA,USA -The Lebanon Daily News, by STEVE SNYDER -19 Mar 2008: -- Encouraged by a local meeting that attracted between 70 and 80 truck drivers and supporters Sunday, independent truck driver Mark Kirsch is organizing a regional rally to bring attention to rising diesel and gasoline prices... Among the ideas coming out of Sunday’s meeting at Esther’s Diner in Bethel Township was setting up a truck convoy to the state Capitol and possibly another to Washington to protest fuel prices... Independent, union and company drivers joined Sunday’s meeting, along with a representative from Swift Transportation... “It was better than I expected,” Kirsch said of the turnout... Kirsch said yesterday that he expects several hundred truck drivers to show up for a rally/meeting at Wilco/Hess truck stop at Exit 77 (Grantville) of Interstate 81 at 2 p.m. Saturday.
* Truckers feel fuel pressure - "We're losing big money"
Charlotte,NC,USA -The Charlotte Observer, by CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK -19 Mar 2008: -- The average price per gallon of diesel fuel is poised to bust through the $4-per-gallon mark in the Charlotte area today, adding further upward price pressure to trucked goods such as groceries... Truck driver Scott Taylor said he would spend hundreds, maybe even $1,000 to fill up his truck. He leases his truck from a national company and as an independent driver watches every gallon, he said. He used to make $70,000 a year two years ago. Now he makes about $50,000, a loss of income he blamed on the price of fuel... Even though independent drivers and trucking companies get to assess fuel surcharges, drivers have to go slower and avoid idling to conserve, he said. So the trips take longer and that eats into productivity and wages, especially if a driver is paid by the mile, he said... "We're losing big money," said Taylor, a Kentucky-based driver, who had picked up a load of pipes Tuesday from Charlotte Pipe and Foundry. "It's real hard on us."...
* Diesel price surge drives new thinking
Newton,MA,USA -Purchasing.com, by Dave Hannon -19 Mar 2008: -- ... With diesel prices continuing on an upward surge, truckers and industries that rely heavily on trucking and freight are re-thinking the way they operate... Wachovia analyst Justin Yagerman writes in a research note that “We currently expect high diesel prices coupled with tractor licensing and prepayments (for items such as insurance policies and tolls) to be a catalyst for truck capacity to exit the market during the first half of 2008.”...
* Diesel prices hurt local trucking company
Muscatine,IO,USA -WQAD (Moline,IL,USA) -March 18, 2008: -- The Newcomb Family, owners of a small local trucking business, struggle to make ends meet in the midst of high diesel fuel prices. The family is pooring all income into the gas tanks... "I think what you are going to see happen is you're going to see a lot of the small truck companies fail," commented one of the Newcombs...
* Higher diesel prices hurt truckers from two directions - "The truckers do the hardest work for the country, and they are least appreciated"
Las Vegas,NV,USA -Las Vegas Review/Journal, by JOHN G. EDWARDS -Mar. 20, 2008: -- Rick Rash, 52, a married father of two adult children and an independent trucker since 1980, can't remember when it was harder to make ends meet... "This is probably as tough as it's ever been," Rash said... Shipping rates for trucking, with the exception of fuel surcharges that cover part of the increased cost of diesel, haven't changed much since he bought his first rig but other prices continue to ratchet up, Rash said... The trucking industry is suffering from a double whammy -- slack demand for shipping, which depresses prices, and spikes in the price of diesel... (Photo by Sara Tramiel/Review-Journal - Luke Fennewald, a driver for DATS Trucking, on Wednesday fuels a company truck's tank with diesel at a Cheyenne Avenue fueling station)* Trucker keeps wheels turning despite increasing operating costs
Marietta,GA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -March 20, 2008: -- OOIDA member Ted Gennick of Marietta, GA, just wants to make a decent living doing what he loves – trucking... But as diesel prices continue to climb higher and freight rates continue to drop daily, Gennick told, he’s worried about how much longer he’s going to be able to stay in business – and show a little profit for his efforts... Gennick said he has talked to other drivers who are frustrated, are desperate and want to take action to curb high diesel prices now... However, Gennick said he’s not opposed to an idea some truck drivers are proposing – a “freight slowdown.”...
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