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On Apr 1, 10:12 pm, "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
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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.

Wasting fuel to protest high fuel prices. Genius!
An to be sure the parkers were running those engines to keep amused and
warm.

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.

Yeah, you are missing something. Can you say "indepenent truckers"???


I certainly can, and I certainly see a lot of freight bills from the
independent truckers with the fuel surcharge. I'm paying it so they should
have the money to buy fuel. Sure, there may be some lag from pump increase
to actual surcharge change, but change they do.

Our local carrier does the same thing. He buys fuel in bulk (usually once a
month) and applies the surcharge accordingly. He does it to cover costs and
he is not hurting from the fuel cost for that reason.