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High Diesel Prices Affect More Than Truckers

By: Sabrina Wu
Updated: Mon 10:15 AM, Feb 17, 2003
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The unleaded you put into your car is not the only fuel with a skyrocketing price. Even if you don't drive a big rig, the rising price of diesel will hurt your wallet as well.

"If we have to charge a customer $100 more to get product from point A to point B," says Gene Scharrer, general manager for Roadready Transfer Service, speaking of the dilemma facing trucking companies all over the country. "That $100 has to be added to the price of the product when it hits the consumer shelf."

Trucking companies Newschannel 7 talked to say they just can't afford not to have a fuel surcharge.


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