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.
So if the avg price of fuel is $4.00 a gallon and the surcharge is .51 cents and the length of the haul is 300 miles the carrier would get $153 for fuel. Now when a carrier says they pass along 100% percent of the fuel surcharge they should be passing along 100% percent of what the shipper is paying for fuel.