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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Yes.
Though, in fairness to Trump, policies well before he was in office during the Obama and Bush Jr. years are also to blame.
Blaming any one person or administration is pointless...
You can only kick cans down the road for so long.
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Not this time. Biden declaring war on fossil fuels was the start of the problem.
Unless you are buying items from your local farmer's market or the like
a trucker had a hand in delivering that item, and even if Farmer John is selling his own wares a trucker transported the fertilizer and plant food he used to grow his corn.
Trucks burn fuel, most of them diesel that has went up more than gasoline.
Unfortunately even though Biden wants oil companies to do their patriotic duty and cut prices they aren't going to. Hopefully trucking companies will be patriotic and take increased expenses out of profits to help inflation. We should also ask for drivers who aren't owner operators to voluntarily take pay cuts to share increased fuel cost with their employers.
Let us do some easy math, for simplicity let us say diesel is up an average of $3 a gallon from Trump era averages. The average big rig gets 6 MPG.
So it cost 50 cents a mile to hail freight compared to what it used to. Instead of fuel surcharges, extra expense factoring with mark ups, take all that away.
Trucking companies, owner operators, contract drivers, and drivers paid by the hour need to be patriots and help stop inflation.
My plan is simple, it is like revenue sharing in the NFL. It cost 50 cents a mile more to operate a big rig, to help stop inflation that 50 cents needs to come out of a combination of company profits and driver compensation.
Trucking company eats 50% of lost profits, the remaining 50% is split between the drivers. Owner operators take a huge hit, but as Obama said
"You didn't build that" Who the hell is more of a parasite than a self employed trucker or a trucking company, according to Obama?
Without the federal highway system they have nothing, who gives a crap
about all the fuel taxes they pay. As far as the truckers who are employees, screw them to. Especially the hourly ones, they get paid to sit it traffic jams, maybe even getting overtime. Everyone one else could be late getting to work, getting to an appointment or missing dinner. The dude in the big rig is eating a burger and fries sitting there making $35 an hour,
his gold bricking ass can do his part.