Trucker Strike?

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Problem is that they are not passing it to the trucks.

Ever since this started we have not seen a rate increase.

I didn't read thru this entire thread, but has anyone mentioned the fuel surcharge that most trucking companies get? I hauled steel for a while out of the St Louis area up to Chicago. I worked for a small fleet owner. He was paid the same amount per 1,000 lbs but as fuel went up he would get a fuel surcharge. He showed me on paper one time where even at $3.29 a gallon (back over a year ago) fuel was actually costing him a little less per mile than it was when fuel was 0.89 a gallon.

 

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I didn't read thru this entire thread, but has anyone mentioned the fuel surcharge that most trucking companies get? I hauled steel for a while out of the St Louis area up to Chicago. I worked for a small fleet owner. He was paid the same amount per 1,000 lbs but as fuel went up he would get a fuel surcharge. He showed me on paper one time where even at $3.29 a gallon (back over a year ago) fuel was actually costing him a little less per mile than it was when fuel was 0.89 a gallon.

Yea, we talked about it. It ain't that much.
Most are 7-10% of the gross of the load.
So a 1K gross pay load= a extra $70-100 bucks.

If he was making that much on fuel surcharge please let me know where to send my trucks.

 

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Yea, we talked about it. It ain't that much.
Most are 7-10% of the gross of the load.
So a 1K gross pay load= a extra $70-100 bucks.

If he was making that much on fuel surcharge please let me know where to send my trucks.

Some of our loads, we were getting a 22-23% fsc. I'm pretty well clueless as far as being an O/O, but I know that is what the paysheets were showing. He was contracted to CRST Malone.