[<1/1,000,000th%]

So the Dems new taxes on fuel should really get these guys’ attention.

[trane250]

Factoring means that the companies that hire the truckers to transport their merchandise aren’t paying their freight charges. A bad omen.

As an aside, our freight transportation system is almost 100% petroleum dependent. This is a recipe for disaster, but the congressional mealy mouths don’t seem to recognize the problem.

[cinives]

That’s OK, it’s a good thing all the Mexican trucking companies will do it for less...

[patton]

What is “factoring” in this context?

[Hazcat]

3.55 / gal National average as of today per DOE

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/wohdp/diesel.asp

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Which means I’ll be on the unemployment line soon if fuel prices continue to rise. I work in logistics, and we handle many of the top trucking carriers.

[Tailback]

Methinks if the Teamsters really wanted to put their actions where their big mouths are, they’d organize a nationwide strike for a week and shutdown every single truck in the country to force drilling in the Gulf, off Florida, in the Caribbean, and in ANWR.

Will it ever happen? Nope. Will the Teamsters endorse a Republican candidate if he promises to do the above things? Nope. Are the Teamsters a Mafia connected wing of the Democrat party? Yep.

[bikerman]

If you have it a Trucker delivered it.

[gathersnomoss]

The crisis is fuel, period. What POS politician will take this on? He/It who does, wins.

Watch as this economy and the incredible shrinking green back (or whatever color it is) comes to a screeching halt, as the government bows to environmentalists, and we continue to be the oil producers bitches.

Kiss your 401k goodbye....AGAIN!

This country, and its politicians, are in the bag for foreign leaders. Shaking HEAD.

[montag813]

I hate the Arabs.

[investigateworld]

Ping

There are a whole bunch of decent trucks sitting on dealers/bank repo lots, realllly cheeeep. You game?

[Just mythoughts]

So why isn’t a gasoline tax cut in the works? Government is the real profiteer off the price of gas/oil. Maybe government wants big trucking like they wanted big agriculture. One would think that a conservative candidate who still sits in the Senate would see a gas tax cut as something people would VOTE for him.