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Montana Chapter, Northwest Log Truckers Cooperative |
July 10,2004
General Log Truckers Meeting
We had our July meeting at Doug Allards in St. Ignatius, Log Truckers from around the area were in attendance. Complete details are on the members only pages.
July 23,2004
Helena &Townsend Log Truckers to get together and discuss the outcome or lack thereof on the meeting they had with R Y Timber
They have decided on the date of July 31st @ 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at Wheat Montana located at the junction of I 90, and Hwy. 287. (Three Forks Junction).
August 12,2004
Columbia Falls Mill getting ready to open new scale for Trucks
Due to the large number of Trucks trying to weigh on the old scales, Plum Creek has built a new scale for the Log Trucks and highway trucks.
September 11, 2004
News from MDT-MCS
By Drew Livesey, Administrator, Motor Carrier Services, MDT
Recently—while in Kalispell for the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
(WASHTO) convention at the Outlaw Hotel—I stopped in to visit with Paul Uken and
R.T. Adkins about the future of the Kalispell Weigh Station located west of town.
October 16,2004
Record-breaking oil prices again push diesel skyward
WASHINGTON -- Thanks to yet another round of record-breaking oil prices on the world market, American truckers are paying nearly 61 cents more per gallon for diesel than at this time a year ago.
The Energy Information Administration reported diesel prices rose an average of 3.9 cents a gallon during the latest seven-day monitoring period ending Oct. 11.
At-the-pump prices skyrocketed for the second consecutive week, this time from a national average of $2.053 to $2.092 a gallon, according to the EIA.
Also for the second straight week, diesel was more than $2 a gallon in all nine zones tracked by the government agency.
In California truckers were paying an average of $2.322. That's 3.2 cents more than the previous week.
The highest jump during the most recent period was 6.7 cents a gallon in the Rocky Mountain region, where the average price went from $2.065 to $2.132.
Other hikes as reported by the EIA were 5.7 cents, from $2.155 to $2.120, in the New England states; 5.6 cents, from $2.144 to $2.200, in the Central Atlantic; 4.2 cents, from $2.058 to $2.100, on the East Coast; 3.8 cents, from $2.238 to $2.276, on the West Coast; 3.6 cents, from $2.019 to $2.055, throughout the Midwest; 3.4 cents, from $2.013 to $2.047, in the Lower Atlantic states; and 3.3 cents, from $2.000 to $2.033, along the Gulf Coast.
Reuters reported Oct. 12 that oil prices struck a record high for a sixth straight day. U.S. light crude jumped to $54.45 a barrel as market watchers around the globe fretted over production restraints in the U.S., Nigeria and Norway. Some experts also expressed concern over an apparently growing inability to maintain global surpluses. On Wall Street, the spike in crude was seen as a major concern. Higher energy costs squeeze profits from most companies, while a rise in fuel prices can curb consumer spending, according to Reuters.
--By Jerry Breeden
January 26,2005
Sometimes we do not realize that we are losing something until it is nearly gone. Something that we thought was a foundation of our society, something that we thought we had w
on long ago