$45 richer today. Fuel sign mistake.

[kyle4501]

You guys diesel fuel is the cheap part of owning a friggn bus 

You sure got that right.

When I hear someone is complaining about the cost of diesel - I wonder what maintenance items are being neglected due to cost.

Sure I enjoy low fuel prices, but I'm not gonna let the cost of diesel cancel a trip. I always factor in the fuel as part of the expenses & plan accordingly. 

[windtrader]

Diesel gone in 10 years!
https://www.tesla.com/semi

my son saw one last week. said the cab has driver in the center. check out the performance 0-60 in 20 sec with an 80k load. Won't be long and we'll be the 21st century rancher and his wagon. lol

[Scott & Heather]

You guys diesel fuel is the cheap part of owning a friggn bus 

Thank you for saying this. Sooo true.


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[Iceni John]

Diesel gone in 10 years!
https://www.tesla.com/semi

my son saw one last week. said the cab has driver in the center. check out the performance 0-60 in 20 sec with an 80k load. Won't be long and we'll be the 21st century rancher and his wagon. lol

At the rate that Tesla is blowing through cash, including LOTS of taxpayers' contributions, they may not be around for too long either.   And good riddance to them.

John

[DoubleEagle]

I thought the deal with Flying J being bought by Pilot was the result of Flying J management making bad financial investments that lost them many millions of dollars, and they got desperate. The spread of Love's was related because of monopoly concerns by the feds that caused some locations to be sold off to them, at least this is what I remember reading in Trucker magazines when this started happening. I still have a Flying J card, and I miss their buffet restaurants. It was sad when they took them all out and turned them into Denny's. It looks like there is competition when you have a Pilot next to a Flying J, but not at all in reality.

[Oonrahnjay]

I thought the deal with Flying J being bought by Pilot was the result of Flying J management making bad financial investments that lost them many millions of dollars, and they got desperate. ...

     After Jay Call died, the company didn't do well then they got hit by the recession and high fuel prices about 2007 or 8 (I think, about then).  That's when they got desperate and made unwise long-shot gambles.
     (You're right about Love's, too.)

[luvrbus]

What killed F/J was the oil futures they committed to oil for a $140.00 a barrel and the price dropped to 1/2 his daughter has it turn around now. I doubt they ever enter the truck stop business again since it was the only assets they let go.I heard Buffet bailed Pilot/Fj last year they were about to go under  

[lvmci]

And Ford just announced they will build only 2 cars in the future, but will continue with all SUVs and trucks, talking about gambling with bad decisions...

[chessie4905]

They have realized that aging people find getting up out of a sedan is more painful/ uncomfortable than a suv where you can just slide out. Also smaller suv's are getting more fuel efficient. And most are available in awd for us that live in better part of the country.😉

[sledhead]

   better part of the country

yes we call it  4  real  seasons


Dave

[Oonrahnjay]

better part of the country

yes we call it  4  real  seasons

Dave

     Hey, we have 4 real seasons in North Carolina; winter, the 19th of April, 8 1/2 months of heat and liquid air, and a week of autumn in October.

[chessie4905]

We go down there for a week every year in June or July. Summer really sucks down there.

[Boomer]

Forget the stinking truck stops.  gasbuddy.com is your best friend.  What I do is find the cheapest station, then to google satellite and check out the ingress and egress to see if I can fit in without trouble.  Probably a 20 cent a gallon price reduction over the truck stops.  JMW

[Oonrahnjay]

Forget the stinking truck stops.  ... 

    Yep.  Every vehicle (except my motorcycle) that I own is a diesel.  Ten years ago, I'd compare the truckstops to local stations, sometimes one would beat the other and the next months, the situation would be reversed.   Then things changed.  Now, truck stops are up to $.40 higher than local stations.
     Part of this situation right now is that truck stops put their prices up in advance of crude oil price increases while local stations lag and that lag always goes away, but as crude prices go up (and they're going to go up quickly now that the Russians and Chinese are going to buy all of Iran's oil), it's only going to keep getting worse.
     And the anti-competitive situation is going to make it worse on "the little guy" -- the independent trucker, the small bus operating company, and us.  I don't see truckstops being a good deal for us -- now or in the future.