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Filled up Friday. Got a little over 18 gallons for $100.

Brandon hasn't seen anything yet:

Wait until people are starving AND freezing!

It can cut pretty good sized brush. But I prefer to pull mesquite and huisache. It doesn't come back that way.



Puller is the way to go.



My machine really drinks diesel too. High horsepower = high fuel costs.

Nice machine... I wish I could run rubber tracks.

Filled up My F-350 yesterday 5.49 , 175.00 , Wifes car @ 4.00 per gallon, 60.00 . Thanks Brandon. UFPOS.

Most of the pumps here cut off at $200.00 now. Sadly thats not a full tank.

I have two diesel trucks, Yee haw!! Driving old jeep around as much as I can!

You can't just raise rates to compensate for fuel.

Trucking Sector fallout from Target's 1B freight cost INCREASE

Yep.

Sooner or later it's got to have a ceiling.

When people quit buying products that need to be trucked, and truckers and farmers can't make any money because of fuel costs, they quit buying or go out of business, then the ceiling will be reached.

Problem is govt. sticking their fingers in the pie and messing with things. They prop things up artificially with subsidies etc. and prolong the agony.

$519 for Regular and Diesel in ER AK Tday thanks JOE

I agree, but there's the fuel surcharge on every load nowadays isn't there? At least there used to be when prices soared.

I get one on our nightly delivery from CalArk

$6.07 as of this morning here.

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I've got a load sitting in Oakley, ID and need it moved to Frederick, MD. I usually use TQL as a broker for this lane. Two years ago, I was paying about $4000. Last year it went to $5000, then to $5500.00. Then last October I paid $6200. That's about a 45% increase in two years. My broker just sent me an email telling me that it might go as high as $7000 to get it moved. I told him that I wanted to start off at $6000. I'll bump it up every day or two until it moves. The brokers hate it when I do that. Sometimes I get a deal, and sometimes I don't. It's the game I have to play so that I don't have to raise the price of the material.

No. Not on spot freight.

I would think so - that's contract freight.

Cost right now on the average truck is about .80 cents a mile just in fuel to operate the truck right now and that assumes a 7mpg truck. Each FSC will be set in that contract based on a peg etc.

The average price paid to the truck on that lane over the last 2 weeks? $4525 and that includes fuel. Assume VAN freight.

Flatbed is $7541 over the last 30 days but that's crap/old data, nothing newer is available and I'd not trust it as far as a rate to be looking today. DAT's national flat bed average in the west right now, overall is 2.95 a mile.

Right now - I see your load posted by TQL on the board (posted 12 mins ago) without a price listed - hoping a carrier will offer theirs to start things off. There are 34 trucks posted to that same board looking for freight - directionally the same as your load. The nearest one that can make your posted weight - 146 miles away.

2 other competitor loads - W. Jordan UT to Brooklyn NY - similar miles (2196 to your 2218) and they're being offered at 4900 to the truck but have sat a while.

Probably asking for a truck @ 5500, premium to competitors freight but also - not NYC - that's still quite the mark up for TQL at 7k when average broker margin is 15%, the 6k would be in line.

Barron’s has a good article on “Fears of the freight recession just got real”.

Follows much of what you and Dutch have been saying for a while now.