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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Aug. 27--If you think you're paying a lot for gas, try putting yourself in the shoes of Charles Doyle, a trucker from Wichita Falls.
Mr. Doyle recently paid more than $550 to buy diesel fuel for his rig's twin 150-gallon tanks, which weren't even empty when he started pumping.
All told, he spent some $4,500 on fuel last month, about $1,000 more than what he would have paid a year ago for the same amount of diesel.
"When diesel prices go up, I take a pay cut," said Mr. Doyle, who typically carries pipe, steel, lumber and other building materials. "When they go down, I get a raise. But lately they've only been going up."
The super-consumers of U.S. roads have had it with soaring...
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