A healthy population is essential for economic development. The poorest people on the planet tend to suffer most from the health effects from exposures to environmental hazards like air pollution and impure water. In turn, disease and disability related to polluted environments slows and blocks economic development.
Now this is how most shippers figure out the fuel surcharge on mileage. The base cost of fuel starts at $1.25 a gallon and is also based on a truck getting 5 miles to the gallon and is figured on the avg. national price of fuel as per the DOE every week.
Shippers pay a fuel surcharge to carriers either by a percentage of the load or by cents per mile. If its a percentage its calculated by the pay rate of the load; say a load pays a carrier $1000.00 and the fuel surcharge is 30% the carrier gets $300.00 for fuel and they should pass that on the O/O.