Hmmm, fuel is down but not shipping charge

[hoax]

Here is the opinion of a greedy greedy trucking company owner....

But seriously I know that when fuel prices skyrocketed it took me almost a year to get my prices to where they should be. I will not be dropping them anytime soon. I took it in the pants so I could stay in business , now it is time for me to make up some of that lost money.

I have dropped my prices some to become more competitive, but not to where they were before the fuel hike.

After this summer if fuel prices are still reasonable I will be dropping my prices dramatically.

It is not because I am greedy, it is because fuel prices are going to go back up this summer and we do not want to have our cost going up and down...

Also on a side note the price of natural gas is going back up... don't believe me watch it about June it will start to rise.

I am the evil man in the drilling industry... I know these things.

Hope this helps some understand why the charges are the way they are.

This is not the case with every business just mine. I know there are some that over inflated their cost and called it on fuel and now that fuel is going down they already have you paying that cost why go back down?

[iCandiBallPythons]

I was wondering why if my rates were raised to offset increased fuel costs last year, then why, now that fuel is less than half what it was then, am I still paying the increased rate?

Odd what you don't think about, isn't it?

Same as everything else ...Seems once they can get a price of anything high and ppl are still having no choice but to pay anyway.
Seems like the price kinda sticks. Ive watched my grocery bil generally go up about 10 bucks every 2 weeks and I buy the same stuff.

[Shadera]

Here is the opinion of a greedy greedy trucking company owner....

Nice to meet another hauler. How many trucks have ya got? Do you still drive, yourself? I used to be an O/O, lost my hind-end back when fuel touched three bucks a gallon. My hat's off to you for making it through last year.

[hoax]

Nice to meet another hauler. How many trucks have ya got? Do you still drive, yourself? I used to be an O/O, lost my hind-end back when fuel touched three bucks a gallon. My hat's off to you for making it through last year.

I am in an incredibly unique situation. I use mostly O/O I have one of my own. I drive when I have to but I have so much going on I just don't have time to.

I also work in the oil patch in North Texas, so we get to charge more when fuel goes up and the drilling companies pay it. They have to, if not the rigs go down, and a rig sitting around costing $50,000 a day.... They pay what ever it takes.

We had a hard time this past year with fuel, we give our O/O a fuel card so we carry their fuel cost for them. We made it through the first year.... but it helps that we had almost $3,000,000 in sales! I am so fortunate to be in the area and situate that I am in.

Do you still have your truck? I hope you can make it up this year. Good luck brother, this first 6 months we will have a hard time we will only have 1/4 of the rigs we had last year. After June the drilling will pick up and life will get back to normal.

[Shrap]

I was wondering why if my rates were raised to offset increased fuel costs last year, then why, now that fuel is less than half what it was then, am I still paying the increased rate?

Odd what you don't think about, isn't it?

That is pretty much the same on every product and service in American. Everyone and everything raised their prices because of the cost of oil.... but you sure as hell dont see them prices coming back down now that oil has went back down.

Burn all corporations to the ground, I say.

[Shadera]

Do you still have your truck? I hope you can make it up this year. Good luck brother, this first 6 months we will have a hard time we will only have 1/4 of the rigs we had last year. After June the drilling will pick up and life will get back to normal.

Sister. I was one of the few solo lady drivers out there. No hairy legged pot bellied freighthauler here. LOL I ended up having to sell the truck at a huge loss which just broke my heart because I was only about twenty grand from paying it off. I'd had her since she was new and was the first to fart in the seats. I hauled mostly meat and beer which were some of the better paying loads I could find and lumped it myself to save those outrageous fees at the other end. I usually did a produce backhaul. Fuel just kept going up, and the surcharges weren't enough to cover it. I was hauling for Rocor out of OKC, and when they sold out to Prime I just threw my hands up and got out. I drove local company stuff for a while and had a good gig driving into downtown Pittsburgh every day to deliver produce.

I hung up the steering wheel for good a couple years ago, but I still get the itch to chase the white line once in a while. I miss falling asleep to the purr of the caterpillar and the smell of diesel.

Best of luck and be safe out there. Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your... you know.

[Dragnbaron]

Part of it is because some large companies buy their fuel months ahead of time and have a filling station where they fill the tanks or trucks, airplanes, busses. etc.
So, they spent 4.20 on gas and still have 40% of that fuel in the tanks that they need to remove but can't take a loss on the fuel.
It's not the same with every company, but the shipping companies i know that deliver to the airports store the fuel at the airports. The airlines bought the fuel months ago and since the amount of shipped goods dropped, and the amount of travelers dropped, they still have the expencive fuel sitting in their tanks.
Just what i have seen, by no means is that every company.

[elevatethis]

Burn all corporations to the ground, I say.

Yeah! Hail Communism!

People complaining about prices not going down...how about people making the decision to earn more? Take a second or part-time job....Go to school...ask for more responsibility at work to justify a raise...market your business better...do something, anything, to be more productive. Seem like the working generation here can't get over their sense of entitlement, and make a change to combat the problem, rather than just complain about it.

[cassandra]

It's kinda like property taxes. Due to the current real estate market my house is now worth quite a bit less than it was when I bought it two years ago, but somehow I am still paying the same amount of property tax. Gotta love it.

My accessment when down and the taxes went up!

Ditto, ours too.

[wilomn]

On a side note about property taxes out here, it's a fixed rate. If your house appraises for less now than the last time it was appraised, you should be paying less in taxes.

Check with your local appraiser. Be sure they are licensed and bonded before you allow them to do anything for you professionally though.