Lizardbreath

At the rate diesel prices are I can only wait in horror for the day when the truckers go on strike nationwide and our economy hits the ****ter.

Who here thinks we are a ticking time bomb?

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Ride Of The Month

theyve been "going to strike" for what, 2 years now?

screw them..another labor union screwing this country. let them bury themselves just like the union autoworkers are....

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brian1570

man all i know is that something has to give...i dont know what is gonna give yet but i hope it ends in lower gas prices

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2000AZ5.0GT

I thought that the trucking companies paid for the gas? Guess not, sucks for them.

Last time I checked, they were getting paid bookoo bucks just to sit on their ass and drive a truck around, what exactly would a strike consist of?

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brian1570

yeah the shipping co.sraise their price to pay for fuel therefore prices on shipped goods goes up to compensate...long story short the price of everything goes up.

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rmodel65

more merchandise will be shipped by rail, you will still have semi but i think the rising cost will cut them back

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86 5.0L

Ima former truck driver, and my dad owns his own trucking company, the prices really havent affected us

and theres two types of drivers,

those that own and maintain(pay forALL expenses)their own trucks and companies hire them to deliver loads, these are 'owner-operators'

then those that work for a company and they dont worry about anything on the truck, the company pays for all expenses,they just get in and drive, we call them 'drivers'

then these are divided into two types of loads, short-haul(usually a day trip)and 48 states(upto 3-4 weeks driving)

the ones REALLY hurting are the small owner-operators that do long hauls, since they can do a limited number of hauls at a time but fuelprices have cut DEEP into their net profit per haul

we(our trucks) get fuel from Mexico where its 2.10 a gallon, we fitted our trucks with extra fuel tanks(150gal capacity) and sell the fuel to other trucks at around 3.50/gal, which factoring in the cost of transporting the extra fuel comes out to a dollar profit per gallon x 150 gal = a nice little bonus

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rmodel65

hmmm intresting on the using mexican fuel. wouldnt they consider it illegal selling the fuel like that?

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86 5.0L

who? the govnt? the same ones telling you you have to pay taxes even though theres no law you have to pay?

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brian1570

wow thnx 86, learn somethin new everyday. [sm=thanx.gif][sm=interesting.gif]

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