Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Mar 25, 8:00 am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Since truckers get paid by the mile, a speed cut is a pay cut. That can
really hurt a professional driver.

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That is why the independent truckers are getting creamed.

TMT


Truckers get paid by the MILE, not MILE PER HOUR. Slowing down does not
cut what they are paid. They can only drive so many hours in a day,
regardless of the speed and a five or ten mile per hour reduction will
not make that big of a difference. Twelve hours at a five mph reduction
is only 60 miles. 120 for a 10 mph reduction. The same load will still
go the same number of miles, it'll just get there a little later. As
for the "Bush gas prices", if he is screwing us so badly, why then are
the folks in England, Europe, Australia, etc., paying $6-$7 per gallon?
Can you explain that? Didn't think so.

Jim