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FUEL SURCHARGES * USA - Diesel prices fuel trucker angst
Cost pressure is straining relationships between truckers and freight brokers and driving up prices for groceries, clothes and other goods
St. Peters,MO,USA -The St. Charles Journal, by Jeffrey Tomich -20 April 2008: -- For truck driver Jon Montgomery, the surge in the price of diesel is more easily measured in time than money... The pain of runaway fuel prices can be felt everywhere, from the biggest trucking firms to independent owner-operators with a single rig... Trucks move many of the nation's retail products and materials used in construction. And much of that freight is handled by small trucking companies — those with fewer than 60 trucks... Often, the only recourse for trucking firms is to impose fuel surcharges... But fuel surcharges don't cover "deadhead miles"— the distance covered when a trucker drops off a load in one city and hauls back an empty trailer to pick up another. And trucking companies don't recover expenses from time spent idling in traffic or at rest stops... The higher prices are increasing the tension between trucking companies and freight brokers. Truckers complain that brokers aren't passing on all of the fuel surcharges being imposed on shippers, and they've asked Congress to step in... "When that happens, shipped costs go up. Costs to the consumer go up. And the trucker goes out of business," said Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association. "That should be unlawful."...Labels: fuel surcharges
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