Has anyone else...

[Matt]

...noticed that things do not add up when you look at the main reason given for the price of everything increasing? How many times have you heard that the reason the price is increasing on most everything we buy these days is because fuel price is increasing?

They say that the cost of transportation has increased due to the increase in fuel cost.
Well that is just not true and in fact the cost of transportation in many areas has decreased due to many small trucking companies and even some independents that need the loads competing just to keep their heads above water.

So if it is those in the transportation industry who are taking that hit on the back side and we are all taking the hit on the front side where does that leave the guys selling the fuel, corn, beef, clothing and everything else that we all buy everyday? MAKING BIG MONEY that’s where.

Does any one else see it from another angle?

Matt

[rex6666]

I buy and sell truck/tractors and trailers, none of the trucking co. can pay $4.00 a gal. for fuel
and haul for 6 month ago freight rates and stay in business very long, the owner operators have been
becoming fewer and fewer for years this put many of them out of bus. Many of the 3-4 truck
operators are parking the equipment that is paid for and selling the ones that are not. Many of the
owners that are leased to a big co. are still getting the same rate per mile, but do get a fuel surcharge
not enough, but it keeps them thinking they are OK. It is strange to us that we keep hearing of recession
things are going down hill but we keep selling almost as many flatbed trailers each month as before.
flatbed trailers sales is a sure sign of construction, some one is building some where. In the transportation
business seems like every 7-10 years their is a changing of the guard, some go broke, then new people
come along and get in the business and it starts again. Think about this, IF YOU HAVE IT A TRUCK BROUGHT IT. when trucks in the U.S. stop the U.S stops unless you have a railroad spur very close by.

[victorcharlie]

It's the dept the US is in......money leaving the country and higher risk by holding dollars.

Every thing imported is on the rise.

It seems simple to me, as the dollar falls, imported goods rise.  We now live in an economy where most every thing is imported...

To quote the rev. Wright..." it's the chickens come home to roost"!