[Alberta's Child]

No independent trucker with an ounce of business sense would be parking his truck over high fuel costs. These costs should be passed along to the customer. Any trucker who hasn’t figured that out probably went out of business a long time ago.

Based on what I’ve been reading in the industry publications, what’s REALLY driving this is that the trucking rates have dropped considerably in recent months as demand has declined. For all the reports we see every day about supply chain constraints, the grim truth is that there isn’t enough demand anymore to keep all these truckers in business.

[RomanSoldier19]

[FreshPrince]

“No independent trucker with an ounce of business sense would be parking his truck over high fuel costs. These costs should be passed along to the customer. Any trucker who hasn’t figured that out probably went out of business a long time ago.
Based on what I’ve been reading in the industry publications, what’s REALLY driving this is that the trucking rates have dropped considerably in recent months as demand has declined. For all the reports we see every day about supply chain constraints, the grim truth is that there isn’t enough demand anymore to keep all these truckers in business.”

Oooh look!

Reason finally appears! No “conspiracy” required!

[bankwalker]

the trucking rates have dropped

that is their customer ... they are being squeezed by higher expenses and lower revenues ...

[MortMan]

For all the reports we see every day about supply chain constraints, the grim truth is that there isn’t enough demand anymore to keep all these truckers in business.

It's not quite that black and white in my opinion, but I would agree with this assertion with one modificaton:

Supply and demand are balanced around a price point. Prices skyrocketing affect both sides of the equation. Because the commodity in question is the transport of other commodities, "demand" is created by the producers of those other commodities, who have their own balancing act around their own price point. When the cost of producing transport of those other commodities rises relentlessly, that price point pressure doesn't directly affect the price points for the transported commodity.

The deliberate inflation of the cost to transport material and product has depressed demand significantly. With the inflation already factored into the cost to produce the transported commodities, there is little room for the increased transportation cost in the price point for the transported commodities.

Sorry to be so long winded. The bottom line to me is that the fuel costs are another method to deliberately try to destroy the economy and country in order that the socialists can erect their Utopia.