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Out of curiosity, Scott, Mike, has the fall in fuel prices acted in anyway to counteract the slowdown of business?
Ditto what Mike said. In my case though cars are to some degree a "need" item. The credit crisis has killed the car market along with high fuel prices. Credit because nobody can get financed to buy anything, which hurts me on both sides of the coin as I haul new & used cars & the fuel prices hurt me because 1. I gotta buy it & 2. most of the vehicles on the road prior to the price spike were SUV/truck. now everybody wants a gas sipper so NONE of the wholesale buyers are buying trucks right now. Thousands of dealers competing for hundreds of economy cars equals little freight in my area. I've been in the car business since 94 & have never seen anything like this before. Scary $hit. It is however a nice change to only have to wire money to the fuel card once a month now instead of 5000.00 every week. That has helped with cash flow dramaticly. The downside to that decrease is now all the clients want a price drop in the rates ASAP. I've dropped some but I was slow to go up in the beginning so it's time for me to recoup some of my initial losses. I should know by the end of the week if I'll be a one or two truck operation. Bid results should all be in by Friday.....