Share your opinion on the current state of diesel prices

Share your opinion on the diesel price situation. (The Trucker photo)

The Trucker Staff

5/13/2008

LITTLE ROCK — What’s happening with diesel prices is incomprehensible and is threatening the very lifeblood of many of trucking’s independent contractors, not to mention what the cost of diesel is doing to the price of goods transported by truck.

Monday’s 18.2-cent-per-gallon jump to $4.331 was the largest-ever weekly increase not tied to a catastrophic event in the U.S., such as the hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.

Today, nine states have average prices in excess of $4.50 a gallon: California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

What's more, the forecast for the remainder of the year isn’t good, with prices expected to remain at the $4-level and above because of the tight market for good crude oil.

We know that as a trucker, you’d like to weigh in on what’s happening with fuel prices. We at The Trucker and your fellow drivers would like to know what you think.

Click here to send us your thoughts in an e-mail. We’ll publish them on our Web site under Letters to the Editor and in the June 1-14, 2008, print edition of The Trucker.