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    Dollars and sense

    Apr 13, 2022 3 minutes
    Gordo Mackinlay

    Diesel prices have always been one of the biggest costs and concerns of anyone running a transport business. As I look at the price at our local truck stop now, it is being sold for the unimaginable price of 229.9 cents per litre. Fuel could hit 1,000 cents/litre and it should not matter. But it does. Why shouldn’t it? And why does it?

    It should not, as we should be, compensated for the work we do considering the costs we encounter to do said job. I remember talking to one of my

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