Convoy ridiculed for costing truckers thousands in diesel -- then getting lost on the Beltway

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The average semi-truck gets about 6.5 miles per gallon, said ArrowTruck.com in an advice post for how to save fuel. TopMark also noted that claims that there are trucks that can somehow get 10 miles per gallon are "a fantastic pipedream."

As some noticed, the convoy is going to be forced to pay out thousands for just a day of protest. The lowest price for diesel in Hagerstown, Maryland, is $3.93 per gallon, according to GasBuddy, and the highest is $4.56. So, at an average of $4.25 per gallon and the average trip from Hagerstown to I-495, and around the Beltway and back to Hagerstown, is about 184 miles.

That means each drive from Hagerstown, a loop around the Beltway, and back to Hagerstown will cost about $120.32 each trip for one truck. If there are 100 trucks that's over $12,000 in diesel fuel.

That'll own the libs for sure, Bubba!

https://www.rawstory.com/truck-convoy-lost-fuel-costs/

[Chainfire]

1. Yea, but you can't put a price on freedom! ;)

[2naSalit]

5. Especially when...

Somebody else is buying.

[brewens]

2. I'd be pissed if I were a real trucker and was held up getting fuel by those jackasses!

They will probably find out where it's cheapest and clog those places up.

[bottomofthehill]

3. The ride home for this clown show is going to be expensive.

[mitch96]

4. "then getting lost on the Beltway".. aka The gang who coun't shoot straight...nt

[lagomorph777]

6. How do you get lost on the Beltway?

[Ray Bruns]

9. I lived in DC for a year. It's very easy. The traffic is unimaginable.

If you miss an exit, you could easily spend your time going round and round.

But they had the best public transportation.

[lagomorph777]

13. I've lived here for 35 years.

It's a big circle. Exits are well marked.

The traffic is bumper to bumper at 5mph during rush hour, and bumper to bumper at 70mph otherwise.

[jmowreader]

7. Folks, you are WAY off on the price

These guys didn’t pick Hagerstown for no reason. There’s a truck stop there. You can’t take a Class 8 truck to a regular gas station because it won’t fit. The truck stop is a Love’s, and they’re currently charging $5.38 per gallon. The diesel exhaust fluid any truck made after January 1, 2010, needs is $4.18 per gallon…and you need one gallon of it per 50 gallons fuel.

NOW where are these peckerwoods getting their money? It costs a dollar a mile to move one of these beasts, just for fuel. That doesn’t include the wear on your $7200 set of tires, your $1500 set of brakes, or your $300 oil change. It doesn’t include truck payments or insurance. Nor does it include all the money you’re leaving on the table by hauling 43,000 pounds of hatred instead of that much freight. (It also leaves out the cost of the divorce lawyer you’re going to need when your wife figures out you’re doing this shit instead of raising money to buy food for the kids and make your house payment.) Just fuel and DEF. One dollar a mile.

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. +1!!

[DoBotherMe]

15. Yes!!!

[halfulglas]

16. Well, if they are funded by some big donors they probably don't care.

Weeks ago before Ukraine happened some astroturfers were paying for it and wanted the publicity disruption would cause. They wanted another Ottawa. I don't know how they apply for the expenses but they don't seem to be hurting for money despite their protestations of how the Covid restrictions are hurting their business.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Another favored Trump convoy - Syria

Repubs whined about US troops under UN control. Now we take marching orders from Russia?

U.S. warplanes call off surveillance of an ISIS convoy, at Russia's request

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-warplanes-call-off-surveillance-of-an-isis-convoy-at-russias-request/2017/09/08/9a51ca4c-94d9-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.2ff05d641dfd

Things are different under CinC Trump.

[Baked Potato]

10. In the meantime 1000s of good, patriotic truckers are helping

the American people and businesses thrive and survive.

Screw these ne’er do wells. They hate themselves and their fellow Americans.

[Hortensis]

11. Reportedly only about half as many today, and possibly doing only one lap.

The WaPo said that yesterday large #s didn't do the second loop and that on that second loop the convoy stretched out so much that it didn't look like a convoy and just blended into the regular traffic. So those may be reasons for just one loop today.

There are two convoys in the area so far, the one parking at Hagerstown and another at Dominion Raceway.
"Both are composed of vehicles from all over the country, totaling about 2,000 vehicles, including several hundred trucks,” Norton said in a statement."

[Hortensis]

12. Reportedly only about half as many today, and possibly doing only one lap.

The WaPo said that yesterday large #s didn't do the second loop and that on that second loop the convoy stretched out so much that it didn't look like a convoy and just blended into the regular traffic. So those may be reasons for just one loop today.

There are two convoys in the area so far, the one parking at Hagerstown and another at Dominion Raceway.
"Both are composed of vehicles from all over the country, totaling about 2,000 vehicles, including several hundred trucks,” Norton said in a statement."