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CARRIERS WHEN ASKED HOW ARE YOU STILL STANDING IN 2026 WITH $5 DIESEL.

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CARRIERS WHEN ASKED HOW ARE YOU STILL STANDING IN 2026 WITH $5 DIESEL.

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Dare_Ask_67@reddit

You have to remember the fuel surcharge. And the fact that a lot of carriers get major discounts, up to a dollar a gallon that I have personally got, from places like pilot and loves. It may say $5 a gallon but you may be paying as little as 3.50 a gallon
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Q7017@reddit

Sliding fuel surcharge go brrrrr
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icodyonline@reddit

I live on 50 gallon increments. lol
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Waisted-Desert@reddit

Y'all act like this has never happened before. |  **2008**|3.308|3.377|3.881|4.084|4.425|4.677|4.703|4.302|4.024|3.576|2.876|2.449| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| | **2022**|3.724|4.032|5.105|5.120|5.571|5.754|5.486|5.013|4.993|5.211|5.255|4.714| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
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RectumRavager69@reddit

Adjusted for inflation, 5$ diesel today is the same as 2.50$ diesel in 2005. The difference is wages are lower proportionally today by about 25% than they were then and cost of goods and cost of living is already high for most and they can't really accept them going much higher without it causing serious problems. We should functionally be able to handle 5$ a gallon diesel without issue if we were getting paid as much as we were in 2005. But in 2005 the average income was 46k and today it's about 64k when to be equal to what we were making in 2005 (and by we I mean the national average for everybody) it would need to be 92k.
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Waisted-Desert@reddit

What is your source for that nonsense? [https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/](https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) $5 today would be $4.48 in 2022. So the $5.75 fuel in 2022 would be equivalent to $6.42.
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RectumRavager69@reddit

I'm comparing 2025 to 2005. The dollar has halved in value in 20 years. I'm not talking about 2022.
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fusillijhericurl@reddit

A lot of these cats were still in grade school back then
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External_Result_8560@reddit

Is that during the great Covid era when pay was higher
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Alimakakos@reddit

They both happen to be during times of major recession that required massive financial bailouts....not exactly good time indicators
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Silent-Room-4987@reddit

Yeah no doubt, both eras saw higher rates
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Exciting_Shallot_351@reddit

It’s almost $7 in Washington 
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TruckNaround@reddit

O/O here. Fuel surcharge at $.25/mile as of now, expecting to raise it $.05/mile per week as this continues to unravel.
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derekschroer@reddit

Company Driver with Fuel at the DC...
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Unorthodozer@reddit

It’s $7 in California
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Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor@reddit

Does the buck get passed on in the ratecon for fuel surcharge? So the shippers pay more then the stores pay more then the consumer ends up paying for it at the register?
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CheesyBreeze@reddit

We are trying to absorb some of the costs when the lane was quoted "all in" LH+FSC. Anything on an FSC model though is automatically adjusted.
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mvamv@reddit

Not always, but yes. Sometimes the customers will pay more to account for fuel cost increase, sometimes they won't.
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GenX_Leo@reddit

Wow, burt Reynolds is back from the dead 😳
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tk421yrntuaturpost@reddit

You can go broke a lot slower sitting still than you can working for the wrong money. If you’re still competing on price, you’ll be back in a company truck before the end of the year.
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