Tractor weight vs. fuel consumption while mowing?

[Don87]

4 mpg with diesel selling for $4 a gallon....a dollar a mile for fuel expense...I honestly don't know how the owner/operators can manage to continue that for long. I should feel guilty about bitching to Roy about spending $100 for diesel fuel to mow for 31 days....

Lets see now, a ten hour day, average 60 mph, 4 mpg, at $4 per gallon....that would exceed my yearly TOTAL spent for gas and diesel in 2010 (I'm retired) so I better siddown and shuttup.

The Owner-Operators that know how to get the fuel surcharge can still do good, the ones that don't understand it have already lost their trucks.

While fuel surcharges may help the driver to deliver the load, it all gets passed on to the consumer.

It's a vicious circle.