Think you’ve got it tough? Spending up to eighty bucks to fill your tank with gasoline?
Consider my husband’s numbers.
Last May it cost Wid $800 to fill up his big rig with 300 gallons of diesel fuel. Today it costs him $1200 – that’s over $4 per gallon for an 18-wheeler that gets 7 miles to the gallon.
Ouch.
For the past three years, Wid, fulfilling a longtime dream, has worked as an over-the-road trucker. Like the fella in the Johnny Cash song, he’s “been everywhere, man,” criss-crossing the country umpteen times.
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