terex herder
Senior Member
$4.19 for gas and $4.89 for diesel yesterday.
I'm in the same boat, spending around$200+ every fill up, plus DEF$35 +, and fuel for the welder$20+! Had to go up on hourly rate and travel mileage rate..... like you said it would bankrupt me to not pass the cost on. With all that, work has not slowed down...actually increased!My service truck cost me $258 last week to fill up. Most weeks I’m filling up at least twice, sometimes 3 times a week. DEF is costing me around $35 every 5 fuel fills.
The last fill I remember before 2021 was $60 in the same truck and DEF fill up was $12.
My credit is running thin with all the cost increases over the last 2 years. My rates are going up because if I don’t pass the cost on it will bankrupt me before the end of the year.
Not that you guy's don't feel the pain, try fueling every 850 miles at $1,100 a whack. A year and a half
ago three of our drivers decided to make a jump to owner operator/lease to own. Right now they are
netting after expenses $500 every two weeks. All three are looking to return, one asked me before he
made the jump what I thought--{It's a good way to go broke}. To collect on freight charges with fuel
surcharge a company will receive it in the next accounts receivable cycle, so your hanging for a while.
Why are the O/O getting paid that much less then a company truck though, I know the company takes a cut but it shouldn't be that big of portion. If they are netting that little,
By the time fuel, tires, any repairs, food, plus brokerage fees, permits, insurance, and being low man on
list-setting at docks waiting to load/unload which cuts into miles. There is not much left.
We run drop and hook-drivers don't set very long. Normally there is a preloaded trailer and down the
road they go. A break down and it's a wait at the back of the line at dealers. In this environment with
fuel prices the freight rate doesn't change as fast as the price of fuel. 6% brokerage in most cases.
Right now most companies are at break even point. So no one is cutting a fat hog, average cost per
mile was 1.60 now 2.40.
When i started hauling scrap to the city if i had $20.00 i could gas up and eat and have a little left over now $ 100.00 for gas and nothing to eat. I all so make more dollars now. Its like i heared alot when i was young it will take a wheelbarrow to carry enough money to buy a loaf of bread.
Can't see why they would do it though, with high truck prices sell it and go back to being an employee or do something different.
I took some scrap in today I couldn't believe how much I got, 2620lbs I got $197. I've never bothered doing it for demos, but now i'm going to at those kind of prices.
Is $.075 per LB worth it with todays fuel prices for that little of tonnage?
He did better than i did on my last load and i had to haul it all most 40 miles one way. I had all most 2 times as much. I got .05. I am not all that green but i will go out of my way to see some thing not go to a land fill. I could be wrong and i often am but every day 90% of us send some kind of metals to the land fill will this cause a shortage some day ?Is $.075 per LB worth it with todays fuel prices for that little of tonnage?