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This is super interesting. Especially as somebody who works as a truckee, currently home daily but hoping to move to on-the-road in the next 5 years or so.
Have the increasing fuel prices had any noticeable impacts in your sphere yet?
It's hard to say, not having a bigger picture view or more experience. There has been whining from customers and owner-ops about fuel surcharges and prices (Our fuel surcharge is up ~70%), but things have mostly blundered on plus or minus customers rushing in orders at the end of the month to try and get ahead of price increases.
Q4 of '25 and Q1 of '26 were "not great" as is. Q2 promises to be busier but simultaneously my terminal is slow due to our primary customer being in the middle of a plant shutdown that's gone past schedule along with other issues on their end. I'm hoping that we get into gear soon, and consistently because dispatching is more difficult when you have to farm guys out, beg for loads, and wind up with drivers stuck on the wrong side of the map.
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