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Posted on 03/09/2022 4:05:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“...they are wasting incredible amounts of money”
Yes, but it’s nothing compared to the economic costs that slimeball Trudeau punished the Canadian truckers with. He took their trucks. He took their jobs. He took their companies. He threatened to take their kids and pets.
Before the pumps were changed, I remember stations printing a “1” with a Magic Marker on a piece of cardboard and taping it next to the price in cents.
Proof the democrats are bribed by “Big Oil”. Every time they get into office the price of oil goes up.
Impacting every person who buys food.
That would still fill my Suzuki Sidekick 2 1/2 times.
Wrong - it impacts everyone. Every product you buy has been shipped by truck at some point (and sometimes at several points) during the production and shipping process.
Note that we’re not only screwed at the pump, the grocery store and the retail store, but the food angle is going to REALLY heat up because Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe. They have planting to do starting now or in the next few weeks...and all of the farmers are carrying rifles and fighting the Russkies...so no wheat this year to speak of (and how would they plow their fields with Russian planes all over the place?). Further, fertilizer is made with natural gas (which has gone up along with oil prices), and a lot of it is made in Ukraine. Yields will be down, worldwide. So we are well and truly phucked WRT food prices.
I had a truck go up 2500 in two days going cross country.
American agriculture runs on diesel fuel so the cost of planting, harvesting and transporting crops to market will also go up. Those smug elites driving their Tesla to Whole Foods might find the cost of their organic tofurkey easily doubled.
April 2022
Poverty is joy.
Forward comrades!
Ok folks - a quick note from the other side of the steering wheel. I’m an independent owner operator of my own tractor/trailer for the last 14 years.
My fuel surcharge rate just went to 46% of the load today. My original rate sheet had fuel pricing at $1.75/gallon. Every $0.05 increase in fuel raises my price. So with my fee for taking a load to a customer, add 46% to it.
My fuel cost to drive one mile is now over $1.00 - my loaded weight is 105,500 pounds, average fuel mileage is 4.65 mi/gal. This is a business for every rig you see on the road, but most don’t weigh so much so they get better fuel economy.
I buy on average 110 gallons of fuel daily, at this rate my annual fuel bill will exceed $100,000 if I reduce my miles driven. For just fuel. Add insurance, maintenance, tires, taxes.
This is why everything you buy costs more.
Thanks!
Great info from a FReeper that lives it every day.
Average that at around 6 miles per gallon of diesel. Thats 416 gallons.
416 X $6 diesel fuel is going to cost you $2500 in fuel.
About a dollar mile just for fuel.
Just wait until the trucks stop running... I hope people are prepped and ready for it.
Thank you- as truckers we handle a lot of money. We just redistribute most of it to our suppliers and mechanics. Keep some, but not getting wealthy that’s for sure.
Most of us can’t do stationary work after years of driving.
Joke:
What do you get when you put 10 truckers in a basement?
A whine cellar.
Park ‘em for a couple weeks.
Simplistic perhaps, but it’d likely get either domestic production back online or DC burned to the ground.
Trickle down effect!
I believe that fuel will begin to cost so much that nobody will be able to buy it. What happens then? I guess that's their plan.
Great joke!
My uncle was a regional trucker. Always keeping busy. Didn’t like to sit still.
You want to know? It’s bad.
I work for a large commercial truck dealership and today management had a conference call with every location and told them to immediately cease purchasing of all used vehicles.
When inventories are at an all time low why stop buying now?
Because prices for used trucks have become ridiculous.
Trucks that sold NEW for $129K in 2019, now with 500K miles, are selling for $129K as well on the current used market with new trucks unavailable until the middle of this year, at best. A ROI for used trucks that’s amazingly for large figure fleets. Here’s your inflation origin.
So, with no new replacements, higher diesel prices, costs of maintenance, paying drivers, insurance, and higher shipping costs, many fleets are starting to park their trucks due to losses & lack of replacement trucks, instead of selling them.
Couple that with the port backlogs means reduced shipping and further shortages of inventories for all goods.
Cats & dog living together. Mass hysteria!
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