Fuel Stops

Well I sure was schooled by all these replies. Thanks for all that information. It all makes sense now and I surely won't complain about the 'funny' fuel stops. Instead I will think my company is being very clever playing the fuel price chess game when I see that.

It's worse than you think. Not only do the companies have to deal with all that was said above they also have to out guess what the oil speculators In Washington will be setting the price at months in advance. Most large companies will have an army of Accountants crunching and crushing numbers to make them fit in budget.

See this was not mentioned at all. The single biggest expense for trucking companies is fuel cost. If they control it they make a profit for the year and if not they close their doors forever.

Remember when fuel got to $5 a gallon for fuel back when the economy crashed in 2008? Once the fuel got to $5 a gallon over 12000 trucking companies went out of business that year. Now granted that was mostly mom and papa trucking companies or mismanaged companies but fuel cost was serious what made them go under.

Yeah, it makes me wonder about this Washington connection. Here in Germany, diesel fuel is the cheapest out of all of them. Apparently in the USA, it is the most expensive; so they can tax those trucks.