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Old 07-03-2008, 12:25 PM   #10 (permalink)
tblount
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Re: a good panther week

Well, like they say, the devil is in the details. Probably the reason so many truckers go out of business. They keep taking cheap loads and eventually the truck depreciation and maintenance catches up with them.

The way I look at it, if I haul freight for only enough profit to buy food and pay for the fuel, I'm just a homeless person, living in a truck with enough dignity to go through life without begging for food.



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Originally Posted by LDB View Post
You should have been told and for that matter done enough research before getting into this to know that fuel costs are part of the costs of doing business and that the fsc is to help cover the cost of fuel not to pay all of the cost of fuel. At $4.64 national avg fuel price the fsc should be 43cpm to bring fuel to $1.20 per gallon. Customers need to be required to pay a reasonable fsc but not necessarily the entire fuel bill.
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