bushpilot said:
Crumm i agree...theres a saying "a bitching man is a happy man..."
some just like to have something to complain about.
if any trucker is eating the increase in fuel and working at lower
profit margin...then theyre STUPID business people to begin w/ !
At 1st it may have been a cash flow issue but i have NO doubt anyone
in business quickly recovered the cash flow "loss" and then some...
You don't get it, do you? It is WAY more fun and sexy to tell the story like a bunch of "working class heroes" are getting trampled by "the man."
The fact is, shipping has historically been insanely cheap in America. It is now costing more like what it is really worth. Any trucker eating the cost of fuel (or the cost of his truck, has anyone ever heard of charging depreciation?) is a poor business man. Every business in the Spokane area involved with ANYTHING that is burning fuel has increased their rates and surcharges for fuel. That means that I pass that on to the owner fo the project, who passes it on to their overhead costs in their building depreciation, which raises the cost of goods or services that they produce, but by the time it gets to that level, to the point to where it is so diluted, it is virtually non-existant.
What I don't hear anyone B&C'ing about on this whole thing is the raising of the rates by the fed, raising the rates at which truckers can finance a truck, which in the end will cost them a BUTTLOAD more than 6K for a DPF. But guess what? Theyhave seen that before, and they charge rates commensurate with the prevailing rates, and are compensated.
