I'm a bit Ticked off...

[gim]

18 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Regular is running $3.19 here - I shop at my local Cub and for every $50 I spend there, I get $0.10 off a gallon at Holiday...the truck needs a fill now and I'll be paying $2.99 a gallon.

I have the cub rewards too. It’s actually 10 cents off per $100 spent. I also have a Luther card for 10 cents off per gallon. I filled up yesterday at $3.18 and it was $2.68 after my discounts.

 

I’ll go ahead and complain that gas is priced way too high. Peak summer travel season is long over and it should have been dropping since Labor Day. It’s pretty much been stuck around 3 bucks/gal here all summer, or a little higher. Natural gas has skyrocketed and that’s what most people use to heat their homes here.

[12poundbass]

I’m very fortunate that I have a company vehicle that I get to take home, so my personal vehicle gets about 50 miles put on it a week. My company vehicle on the other hand, I go through a tank every other day and average about 40k miles a year. I’d go broke if I had to pay for all that gas. 
 

 

[Glenn]

This is a pretty good article that explains the current situation, along with a prediction of lower prices coming soon...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/oil-falls-to-six-week-low-on-lockdown-concerns.html

 

[gim]

My uncle who drives truck told me there’s also a shortage of truck drivers in almost every industry, which includes gasoline tanker drivers to deliver fuel to the stations.

[volzfan59]

25 minutes ago, gimruis said:

My uncle who drives truck told me there’s also a shortage of truck drivers in almost every industry, which includes gasoline tanker drivers to deliver fuel to the stations.

Bingo! That is one of the problems.

[slonezp]

6 hours ago, Glenn said:

This is a pretty good article that explains the current situation, along with a prediction of lower prices coming soon...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/oil-falls-to-six-week-low-on-lockdown-concerns.html

 

I'm not holding my breath. 

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

My uncle who drives truck told me there’s also a shortage of truck drivers in almost every industry, which includes gasoline tanker drivers to deliver fuel to the stations.

My brother is an owner operator. Been driving for 35 years. He's made more money in the last 2 years than he has ever made in 35 years of driving. His added expenses are getting passed along to the end user. 

[desmobob]

I watched a documentary not too long ago that showed how "freight brokers" (or something like that) had managed to shoehorn themselves into the trucking industry between the drivers and the suppliers and were tapped into the money flow and making the business very stressful and unprofitable for drivers and unappealing for potential new drivers.  

 

I don't know if this is really the case, but it was my take-away from the show. 

 

Maybe the shortage and the shipping situation will make things better for the drivers and things will improve for them.  I hope so.

[slonezp]

14 minutes ago, desmobob said:

I watched a documentary not too long ago that showed how "freight brokers" (or something like that) had managed to shoehorn themselves into the trucking industry between the drivers and the suppliers and were tapped into the money flow and making the business very stressful and unprofitable for drivers and unappealing for potential new drivers.  

 

I don't know if this is really the case, but it was my take-away from the show. 

 

Maybe the shortage and the shipping situation will make things better for the drivers and things will improve for them.  I hope so.

It's all relative. My brother works with brokerage company's. He has a reefer trailer and runs mostly medical supplies because it pays the most. He used to run produce which pays half or less than medical. He's currently grossing $5K-$8k a week depending on what he hauls. Fortunately, he's got enough time behind the wheel he can pick and choose what he hauls. 

[gim]

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

He's made more money in the last 2 years than he has ever made in 35 years of driving.

I can believe it.  It's really not a bad gig if you don't mind being on the road.

[Bird]

Oh wow, isn't there many competitive jobs out there?

Why aren't they being filled?......curious. 

[slonezp]

53 minutes ago, Bird said:

Oh wow, isn't there many competitive jobs out there?

Why aren't they being filled?......curious. 

Mind you, my brother is an owner operator with 35 years of OTR experience. Minus fuel costs, he has $100k in expenses annually just with truck/trailer payments and insurance. Add in maintenance costs and whatnot, it's not an easy deal.

 

Take a look at Mike Rowe and what he's been doing to promote job growth in the less than glamorous industries. 

 

[Hammer 4]

Just drove by another Chevron station this evening, and noticed that Premium was $ 5.39 per Gal. I use to use Chevron Diesel all the time, not a fan of them any longer.