FUEL

[dljtruck]

30-70 blend...3.70. straight 1....4.00 today. my question is: how much higher is it goin & why the hell isnt someone doin something about it????I'm ready to park it & sit it out. i won't leave my yard unless i'm FULLY compinsated {?] with an updated rate. I have not put in 25 plus years to get wiped out by cut rates & insane fuel prices! Thanks for lettin me vent....take care & WORK SMART!

[Admin]

30-70 blend...3.70. straight 1....4.00 today. my question is: how much higher is it goin & why the hell isnt someone doin something about it????I'm ready to park it & sit it out. i won't leave my yard unless i'm FULLY compinsated {?] with an updated rate. I have not put in 25 plus years to get wiped out by cut rates & insane fuel prices! Thanks for lettin me vent....take care & WORK SMART!

If we would be able to unite, we have the biggest power in this country and we could change that in 2-3 weeks . :yes: :yes:

[dljtruck]

I hear ya... :vmad: Ya think we'll ever see those days again?{back when people used to care about things other than just themselves}..I can only hope :yes:

[Acorn Trucking]

Want to see some change, get out and vote. Talk to all of your friends and family and explain to them how things are and who you feel is causing the biggest problems and vote them out. If every trucking family in the USA was active in voting and made sure that their families and friends were voting we would have the largest single group in the USA. Bigger than PATT, CRASH, MADD, AARP or anyone else.

[dljtruck]

If we cant agree to shut them off for a few days , how are we going to get everyone to vote?? I Do..EVERY election. My point was how to unifey independents so we are heard & respected.{if you see a convertahopper with the "just say no to cheap freight decal running around this area...that be me.}I don't wanna come across as a smartazz...im not. Seems like when you sit in one of these for hour upon hour you think about alota things .but, we , as independents need to do something SOON or all you'll see out there are the big companies runnin up & down our roads. Ooida member since 97 # 033942

[Acorn Trucking]

I wasn't trying to be a smart azz either and if you see a yellow condo running around pulling a faltbed you will see the same say no sticker right up top on the back. But if EVERYONE voted than we could also make a difference.

[Admin]

VOTE...that doesn't help. We vote for the same snake.....only this one has to heads ( Rep. and Dem. )

Only a one week Warn strike could help :angry:

[dljtruck]

Acorn1 All is cool...I hear what your sayin. hope our paths cross someday soon....would like to buy you a coffee& shoot the breeze. stay safe...& may all you loads be good ones.{$$$}

[David_Reed]

30-70 blend...3.70. straight 1....4.00 today. my question is: how much higher is it goin & why the hell isnt someone doin something about it????I'm ready to park it & sit it out. i won't leave my yard unless i'm FULLY compinsated {?] with an updated rate. I have not put in 25 plus years to get wiped out by cut rates & insane fuel prices! Thanks for lettin me vent....take care & WORK SMART!

If we would be able to unite, we have the biggest power in this country and we could change that in 2-3 weeks . :yes: :yes:

That is one mighty big IF.
Too big for me to tackle, even with YOUR help.

[accremonious]

VOTE...that doesn't help. We vote for the same snake.....only this one has to heads ( Rep. and Dem. )

Only a one week Warn strike could help :angry:
I respectfully disagree. A strike creates more problems than it solves. What both of our nations need to do is form a new political party(s) that represent only the people, not the lobbing interests.
Call it an Independant's Party for the moment. This is a very difficult move to manage and to fund. But the interests of the average working citizen needs to be addressed and championed.
Currently our political systems are out of control and politicians are catering to the vested interests, and the media who are no longer unbiased.
It should be illegal for the media to make slanted reports and try to form public opinion. Bluntly, it is sickening to see the amount of propaganda that is being pedaled by the media in order that they can sell advertising space/time to make a profit on half truths or any thing but the truth, Shame on them!

[dljtruck]

Admin...I agree with you & wish we could orginize to pull off a week long strike. WE Do need to vote out the bullsh!! in washington but that could take up to 4-8 years & I for one don't want to wait that long.7 days guys...& when the big boys in D.C. dont have any t bones to eat...mabey they will be motivated to do something about this fuel price. :wtf:

[McGee]

:rofl: :rofl: ....Sorry don't believe in a strike....ya can't even get these idiots to quite taking freight that they literaly have to pull money outa thier own pockets to move....Been sitting for 3 weeks now...hunting and pokin for a load....I can afford to sit tho...can you???

[dljtruck]

yeah...I too will sit until paying loads come up. ...but...if we all would sit.....5-7 days.....might do us all some good. ;)

[Uturn2001]

One thing that would help with fuel prices would be to curtail the demand for it, and the only way to do that is to use less.

If drivers would:

Slow down
Limit idling
fully maintain their vehicles
stop buying and driving fuel guzzlers because of the "cool" factor
and so on it would help.

[accremonious]

One thing that would help with fuel prices would be to curtail the demand for it, and the only way to do that is to use less.

If drivers would:

Slow down
Limit idling
fully maintain their vehicles
stop buying and driving fuel guzzlers because of the "cool" factor
and so on it would help.

If you want the price to go down then I agree use less. But with the sudden rapid expansion of the Chinese and India economyies that wont happen. If we were to develope the use of Hydrogen as a fuel, and ration the use of petroleum products like we did during WW2 then there would be some hope for lower prices. Currently too many people just jump in the car or truck and run down to the corner store for some more items that we really don't need instead of planning to make one trip a week. Our society today does not have the self discipline or the habit of planning when to use and when not to use our over powered SUVs! Just raise the price of the goods and services and demand more wages because it has always worked before! Well it won't always work. Face upto reality and do the numbers.........China has increased their imports of petroleum by over 25% this year with no sign of letting up! If we use less it means more for them! Next thing is when our population is double again what it is now, somebody is going to do with out! There are going to be more wars fought over energy and fresh water, too. So I again say Man is the stupidest animal to walk the face of the 3rd rock from the Sun, he is trying to screw himself out of his planet and succeeding all too well!

[SUNSHINE]

Maine truckers protest fuel prices; set up meeting with politicians

Truckers in Maine are gearing up for a second meeting with state and national politicians on what skyrocketing diesel fuel prices are doing to their businesses.

OOIDA member Larry Sidelinger, owner of Yankee Pride Transport in Nobleboro, ME, is organizing a session for Dec. 1 in Damariscotta, ME. He attended a similar meeting earlier this month and was inspired.

“It was probably the most gut-wrenching meeting I’ve ever been to in my life and I’m not much of a political person going to these meetings. I’m a truck driver,” Sidelinger told “Land Line Now” on XM Satellite Radio.

Truckers in the logging industry organized the first meeting Nov. 17 in Lincoln, ME. That event drew 400 truckers and logging industry representatives along with more than a dozen federal, state and local politicians and officials.

“People in the logging industry talk about their businesses that employed 100 men or 120 men or 50 men a year-and-a-half ago or two years ago and now they’re down to 10 and 15 and skeleton crews (because of) what the high cost of fuel is doing to them,” Sidelinger said.

He said small companies and independent drivers are getting hit hard.

“The same thing is happening to us in the Northeast,” he said. “We’re buried under the high cost of fuel.”

Sidelinger said his fuel costs have increased from $2.66 per gallon average in January of this year to $3.66 a gallon as of this week.

The U.S. Energy Department reported Monday, Nov. 26, that diesel fuel prices are at an all-time record high. The department reported the national average price at $3.44 per gallon

The next meeting between truckers and politicians in Maine is set for 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at the American Legion Hall on Business Route 1 in Damariscotta.

Some truckers have proposed waiving the state’s diesel fuel tax and suspending the sales tax on truck-related purchases.

But a spokesman for Maine Gov. John Baldacci said the state would lose too much revenue and that the governor would prefer seeing carriers form cooperatives to negotiate better deals on fuel.

– By Land Line staff


I knew the Gov would cry poverty when asked to help. He needs to go back to mama's kitchen and wash dishes and remember what its like
to work for a living.

In my 17 years out here I have never seen it this bad. I have seen a
proud, honorable and hard working profession go down the crapper
due to greed. Don't even get me started on PATT, CRASH and the rest
of those bleeding heart special interest groups who have no clue to what
our way of life is. But here are some things we can do.

Run compliant. So you run out of hours. Dispatch will have to reschedule.

Maybe if the load is rescheduled several times :wicked:

As for the idling. My health is as just as important as the paper and pencil
desk jockey. I'm not waking up in the morning with icleicles hangin' off
my azz for nobody.

[Jack5]

Maybe if the load is rescheduled several times



And who's time is lost when this happens?? Either way the driver loses. How about staying away from small flybynight carriers and not accepting an illegal dispatch in the first place. I agree though. The trucking industry is in the crapper.

[wesross]

I'd imagine this problem is going to have to get a whole lot worse before anyone does anything about it. I'm afraid thats how things work these days...