[heavyhaulerss]

hey what do ya expect from an alabamian ?? :lol: just breaking the monotony.

[tootie04]

we were driving in AZ yesterday and ALOT of trucks including us were only going about 60-65 MPH

The fuel surge thing works like this fuel is 3.50 per gal, your FSC is say .45, you take the MPG your truck gets and times it by your fuel surge for instance ....truck gets 6.0 MPG

.45 X 6 = 2.70 take that number and subtract from 3.50 or whatever you are paying for fuel. 3.50-2.70=.80 you are paying .80 for fuel at 3.50 per gal.

When we were leased to arrow our tuck got 7MPG and there were times we MADE money with the fuel surge.

tootie

[allan5oh]

Ah, you listen to kevin as well do ya?

[tootie04]

Originally Posted by allan5oh

Ah, you listen to kevin as well do ya?

who the heck is Kevin???

[allan5oh]

heh, nevermind then!

He uses that exact same formula.

Kevin Rutherford on xm 171.

[tootie04]

Originally Posted by allan5oh

heh, nevermind then!

He uses that exact same formula.

Kevin Rutherford on xm 171.

Oh OK....never heard of him. We have the other radio starts with an S and I cant spell it right now.... :sad:

Tootie

[Raafi]

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

Politics is not about common sense or doing what is right. It's about pleasing the most amount of people and when your dealing with such a small group as truckers, who gives a sh**. Why waste your time when there are much bigger problems to solve.

and we have no one to blame but ourselves

i just joined ooida, but someone gave me this link recently, i thought his viewpoints were right in line with mine, i cant say how good or bad it is, but it makes sense

truckingunderground.org

[no_worries]

Fuel prices....how are you making it??

Charging more

[person]

Originally Posted by allan5oh

That "new refinery" thing is sort of a myth. Yes there has been no new refineries, but some of them have quadrupled in capacity.

If you guys would just kick off the heating oil habit, we wouldn't see this huge increase of 50-100 cents every fall. We don't run heating oil in Canada. We don't see this increase.

Diesel prices here have increased 5% in the past month.

I think about 7% of the U.S. heats w/ heating oil.

[tootie04]

Originally Posted by no_worries

Charging more

You may be charging more....but if you are taking broker loads.....they are NOT paying more!! :evil: :evil: