Brandon Arter

Mar 2, 2019

Submitted by Brandon Arter

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The diesel price run-up hasn't obliterated owner-ops' recent profit gains -- yet ...

But it's getting very close. Backstopping profits will be a matter of smart negotiating if you're dealing with brokers. 2025 Small Fleet Champ Wes Oberman keeps a close eye on fuel with a tool that gives him and leased owners reliable daily forecasts for the next day's prices.

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Tuesday at the Love's at I-65 on Trinity Lane in Nashville, the cash diesel price had already moved to $4.18/gal., credit another 6 cents higher. Down the street at a small service station you'd play hell getting a tractor-trailer into or out of, pricing remained in the $3.70/gal. range.

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