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Originally Posted by p38fln
The problem with skyrocketing fuel prices is that would punish everybody in america, not just the equipment owners that refuse to upgrade to a more efficient vehicle. Enough of these vehicles are on the road that they drive overall freight rates higher just because they suck down more fuel.
I'm not going to say EVERYTHING arrives by truck, but odds are really good that "if you bought it, a truck brought it." Increased fuel prices simply to force companies to buy more efficient trucks are going to be passed through to the trucking company customers, and from them on to you.
We are talking about incredibly stubborn people - they will change their ways when they go out of business, and enough of them have the same mentality about bigger is better that it will be a very long time before someone with a 'brick' will actually be at a disadvantage (because the freight rates will simply raise to pay for the increased fuel cost) - and in the meantime, the extra fuel they're sucking down is getting passed through to YOU.
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Well, like was said earlier, the companies that are more efficient will win out in the marketplace. Diesel has tripled in the past 20 years, and yet, owner-operators have continued to replace their trucks with the same crappy inefficient vehicles and continue (even to this day) to drive them at 80 mph.
Fuel prices will continue to climb as global demand rises, and perhaps if these guys would save up their money instead of spending it on chrome bits and hundreds of side marker lights, they could afford the innovative fuel-saving upgrades that these regulations will no doubt empower the free market to create.