ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN FUEL.....
When a Dollar a mile was a good rate..fuel cost was 60 cents a gallon...( 12% of your cost. .60 divided by 5mph ) ...I Believe today it should still be 12% of cost..RIGHT!!!!!....so when you do the math...Fuel is $4.00 a gallon...(giving the mph gallon to 6mph) ...$4.00 divided by 6mph..equals...66cents per mile..if this is 12% of cost how much should your rate per mile be?.......$5.50 per mile.....we would no longer see shaby trks in harbors..everybody could afford health ins....and you might be able to a DAMN VACATION WITH the wife and kids..and possibly have a little bit of profit left over for a set of new drive tires at $4500...$120 shop rates should I go on???I don't think CEO's would be getting there million dollar BONUS...I think its time we finally do something about it. You would think as an industry we have saved the country a lot of money. We have not..it just went some place else.