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Do you drive a truck, work vehicle or perhaps have need to fill up your RV. The other day, I topped off my Motor Coach for a short trip 600-miles, well, that’s short for me and $735 later I rolled out of the Flying J Truck Stop, wondering how on Earth the RV and Travel industry can handle this.

Now then, I was quite delighted to find that there were only a few trucks at the entire truck stop, which meant there was no wait to fill-up and pay my $735.00 but, I’d have rather waited an hour to buy fuel at $2-3.00, yah in my dreams. Do you ever wonder if you will ever see diesel prices under $2.50 in your life time again? This is having a serious effect on our economy, the few truckers I talked to today were quite concerned, one of the independents was worried about going out of business.

One of the drivers for a large company told me that their company was shipping much more by rail than ever before. The railroad does have a huge advantage and the rail cars are double loaded with double-decker cargo containers too, some of the trains I saw had 125 cars on them and were fully loaded. There is a lot less traffic on the road, and after filling up my RV, I can see why?

Oh my gosh, I can sure think of better things to spend $735 on and I imagine, when by the time I get back on this little excursion of mine, I’ll be well over $1,000, you know this is just insane really. Don’t you agree?