Maine Insurance

Experts say, whenever the price of fuel increases by 5 cents per gallon, a Trucker increase the annual cost of $ 1,000 between July 2007 and January 2008 have declined by 40 cents per gallon.

Rumford - For America to move, truck drivers trait each year more than 10 billion tons of cargo, according to the American Trucking Association.

It shows about 53 billion litres of fuel per year, including 38 billion litres of diesel.

Last month, the ATA has projected a record-high diesel fuel bill for 2008. The Trucking industry, he said, spend $ 135 billion on fuel consumption on current expectations of fuel prices.

That is $ $ 22 billion more than the 112.6 billion spent Trucking during the year 2007.

Small entrepreneurs truck drivers - those who have less than six or rigs - cover nearly 90 percent of the Trucking Industry, Jim Johnston, president and owner operator of the Independent Pilots Association of Grain Valley, Mo.

“Given the fact that the transport trucks account for 69 percent of all traffic of goods to the USA and are the only suppliers of goods of 75 percent of U.S. municipalities, small businesses drivers HGVs are in the truest sense, the backbone of our Nation’s Economy, “Johnston wrote in a letter to Jan 30 President George W. Bush.

He was seeking emergency assistance from the escalating price of oil, on behalf of OOIDA’s national 162000 members, including 776 in Maine.

“The cost of fuel is the biggest operational costs, with which small businesses are demanding drivers. Volatiles and often high fuel prices have devastated these companies in recent years. Trucking thousands of companies have not been able to survive, “said Johnston.

Herman drivers and Kimberly Brown Jr. Business, Brown and Associates of Hartford, Maine, Trucking, such an undertaking.

Rising diesel fuel prices last May, they were forced to drop their health insurance, which costs $ 800 per month.

Then, on January 21, three days after his return from a collection of jobs, Herman suffered a stroke that did not work and pay the bills.

Both he and his wife debt stroke, the price of fuel on stress during the year 2007 amounted to $ 50000 $ 75000 paid $ 194400 fuel Trucking exchange and associated costs such as taxes, tolls, taxes, licenses and supplements.

Paying the bills, they are now forced their rig.

Johnston said that whenever the price of fuel increases by 5 cents per gallon, a Trucker an increase of the annual cost of about $ 1000

In six months before January 30, the average price for diesel has increased by more than 40 cents per gallon.

“This is a huge burden for small businesses Trucker, whose average annual income is $ 37000 to $ 40000 The emergency measures for drivers of heavy goods vehicles survival grows with every cent extra, they have to pay fuel at the pump, “said Johnston.

Norita Taylor OOIDA spokesman said Thursday by phone last week that the USA Sens Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced legislation earlier Thursday which, if approved expected that the promotion of small and medium enterprises Trucking, professionals in Germany.

The “honest reliable Understanding of Consumer costs of legislation will require that 100 percent of the fuel surcharges levied for browsing customers, passing by those who actually pay for the fuel’s related to the shipper of goods.

In most cases, the lorry driver.

“This law is a long way to go for help truck drivers survive brutal fuel costs,” Todd Spencer, Executive Vice President of OOIDA, said Thursday in a report.

“And it is necessary to express shippers and ultimately consumers, as rising shipping costs are actually due to higher fuel prices and gouging intermediate-hungry traders. Snowe and Brown should Sens be commended for his leading role in this case “Spencer added.

Taylor said fuel surcharges for long the principal mechanism for transport companies to respond to an increase in fuel costs.

“With the consistent rise in prices of diesel, shippers pay more, are now in their fuel surcharges for moving cargo, as never before,” said Taylor.

“It is too convenient for distributors in the Trucking Industry push shippers to pay supplements kerosene, but only along a portion of these increases - or not - truck drivers, which is transporting goods and payment of the fuel bill “Spencer said.

Johnston also asked Bush to immediately stop the diversion of supplies of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the place that the product directly on the market.

Fresh oil from the reserve at that time, only the already narrow oil.

“If the diesel is the lifeblood of life of public transport, then truckers are the heart. And many are in danger of life,” said Spencer.