FUEL SAVINGS

[dispatchn1]

Is there any fleet owners on here that buy fuel contracts?

I guess you can buy 42,000 gallon contracts from pilot and save some

anyone doing this now with pilot or anyother truckstop?

the problem I see with locking in todays price for the 42,000 gallons is I dont like todays price and hope someone comes up with a solution that will give us poor truckers cheaper fuel.

when farmers cant farm the goverment gives them money.
what happens to the farmers and everyone when truckers cant truck.

 

[LDB]

We get a better deal by using T/A and buying on the wholesale plus 4.5 cents program through Panther. You have to check the wholesale price at each location to find the best one. I paid $2.697 in Jessup when the pump price was $2.969 and in Lafayette, LA. I saved over a dime a gallon off the pump price. The Baytown, TX location was about 2.5 cents a gallon higher and the state fuel tax rate is the same in LA and TX so it was better to buy in LA. If a guy had several trucks and no system like Panther that might be a good way to do it.

Leo Bricker, 73's K5LDB, OOIDA 677319
Owner, Panther trucks 4958, 5447
Highway Watch Participant, Truckerbuddy
EO Forum Moderator
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[terryandrene]

Five years ago, the typical fuel consumer would have thought that buying a fuel contract at $1.00 would have been foolhardy; five years from now, a $3.00 contract bought today would have been a great investment.

 

[RichM]

However necessity is the mother of inventions. Right now some kid is figuring out a way to run your truck on the energy stored in a lump of coal. Perhaps a small nuc reactor will be the power plant of the future.
Wind sails might work,beaming up from one location to another is a possibility. Levitation will elimate traffic tieups such as I experienced today due to some guy on a motorcycle doing about 130, who ran into a rv doing about 60.