Truckers Call for Help on Diesel Prices

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It's "you're" not "your" get it right! and while you mr. motorcycle may have made an excellent choice in buying yourself a nice crotch rocket...truckers can't really deliver thousands of pounds of goods via motorcycle...
They have a right to complain. Oh and another thing, thank the speculators for bidding up the cost of fuel!

Karah of NH 3:48PM December 10, 2008

As Merle Haggard says "Are the Good Times really over for good?
I think so. We will never see in the next 10 years what we saw just 12 months ago.
No matter what we do to try and correct this problem, there is no fast solution.
I had a diesel Dodge truck and used about $125.00 worth of fuel per month just prior to Hurricane Rita, I just sold it because my last monthly fuel bill was near $350.00. I bought a gas powered truck and it is no better because I don't get the mileage I got from the diesel engine.( Lower gas prices than the diesel but lower mileage on the gas. I thought diesel was a by-product of gasoline) Last night on Glenn Beck the scroll on the bottom of the screen said oil had incresed by 5% in the last month. I feel extremely concerned about what this is doing to our country. The truckers that own their trucks can not survive. The larger companies will only pass it on to the retailers and they will pass it on to us. Which means we will not survive.Texas is trying to take hundreds of thousands of acres from private land owners so Spain can build the Texas Corridor (Which I might add is to be a toll road and the funds given to Spain) thru our state for Mexico to transport goods to Canada. Now why would we build a fence along the Rio Grande and then open the borders up to truckers from other Countries. Rick Perry is a very intelligent man?????? You see I can not even get on the net without being negative!!!! At least that is what a lot of people will say. You are sooooo negative.Can anyone show me something about this whole thing that is positive.

John Davis of TX 6:47PM June 03, 2008

That's what is happening now. I operate a small towing/roadside service in Atlanta, Ga and I have raised rates and added a small surcharge but to operate seven trucks my fuel bill used to be 5% to 8% of my revenue...It is now at 15% with no end in site. That percentage gap pays for maintenance which now comes out of reserves. Why is our own Government trying to destroy the transportation industry? Is it so trucks from Mexico can enter and do the work?

Peter Hoffman of GA 7:17PM June 02, 2008

Tell me how I can help do something about the price of fuel. Have a good friend who is an independent trucker and I want to help.

Donna Brandon of NC 12:15PM June 02, 2008

Truckers, It is time all Americans Truckers start pulling together. We have all control, we just have to exercise it. United We Stand Together... Time is NOW Thanks Rhonda Cramer (Truck Driver) cramer0792@sbcglobal.net

Rhonda Cramer of IN 11:26PM May 21, 2008

problem is we have to much government and no one can get anything done, because there's to much red tape, and they're concerned more about popular vote rather then what they're job really is. We need government that are good managers and know how to run a business. Frankly all the government does is run the country into the hole, they borrow money like there's no tomorrow. Fuel is only one problem thats a nail in the coffin for the average person. We need to stop borrowing so much money . Personally each person needs to manage in a reasonable manner, its time to sharpen the pencil and try to get thru these times.

Tim 5:05PM May 20, 2008

when I hear we have enough resources and technology to stand on our own as a country within 5 to 10 years and we continue to let our own policy makers and foreign goernments hold us hostage it makes me sick. When are we going to say "that's it , we are going to stop this lunacy now"! I love this country and am so sick of whats happening to her it 's not just breaking me financially it's breaking my heart. I pledge here and now to join with like minded people to do whatever I can to bring about the change that puts us back in the drivers seat.

John Houser of WV 8:01PM May 15, 2008

Ordinary people seem to have more and better answers to our fuel crisis than our stupid and catatonic government. They are still looking for solutions. Some solutions already do exist but are being ignored by our doodeling representatives ( especially the Democrats who control congress and who claim to have all the answers). All they have to do is look to Germany and the impact Diesel has on fuel efficiency in that country. Why can't it happen here? Why can't our Media stress this important issue more and bring it up for debate, rather than reporting on degenerate celebrities? The time to act is now!

WTH of VT 7:36AM May 12, 2008

Well releasing oil is all great and dandy however there are still the same number or close to that in oil refinnerys. So they could have all the oil in the world but those gas plants only produce so much in a day. If your demand was so high wouldn't you look to increase your product output by building more? hmmmm

of TX 1:00AM May 06, 2008

Why don't truckers raise their rates with the price of fuel? Seems like anyone who job depends on a commodity with such a volatile price, they would have a surcharge built it in that could be as fluid as the price of diesel.

Doug K of AZ 4:06PM April 30, 2008