"Kurt Ullman"

| Shippers, not truckers have been applying a surcharge. Little if any
is
| getting to the independents.
|
| We use a lot of independents. Every one of them has a fuel surcharge.
So,
| where is the money.?
|
| There was a rather interesting thing on 20/20 or one of the similar
| shows about how the brokers are getting the fuel surcharge and then
| keeping it instead of sending it along to the truckers. Sorta surprised
| no one has sued over that.

Don't file suit and you get the short end of the stick. File suit and get
beaten with the stick (i.e. no jobs)

As to the oil companies maintaining 'it's not our fault' reminds me of many
of the pronouncements of the ENRON bunch.