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.
The fuel surcharge shall be applied to each shipment having a waybill dated on or after the 1st day of the second calendar month following the calendar month of a given HDF Average Price (e.g., a fuel surcharge applied beginning July 1 would be based on May's HDF Average Price).