"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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| "Jesse" wrote in message
| news:lNAIj.14848$oE1.11140@trndny09...
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| Elsewhere on Tuesday, many independent truckers parked their rigs and
| others slowed to a crawl on highways to protest high fuel prices.
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| Wasting fuel to protest high fuel prices. Genius!
| An to be sure the parkers were running those engines to keep amused and
| warm.
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| Maybe I'm missing something, but truckers have been charging a fuel
| surcharge for a few years now. Where is that money going? The purpose of
| the surcharge is to cover the high fuel costs.

Shippers, not truckers have been applying a surcharge. Little if any is
getting to the independents.