The days of pocketing a profit off fuel surcharges on Department of Defense loads collected by middlemen who don’t buy the fuel are numbered thanks to a bill recently passed by Congress.
The Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, approved by the Senate on Saturday, Sept. 27, includes language that mandates the pass-through of any fuel surcharges collected on DOD loads to the person who bears the cost of the fuel.
“I think it’s a major step in the right direction,” said Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
“In terms of fairness and in terms of assuring shippers – in this instance U.S. taxpayers – get a fair deal on freight shipping charges and that truckers get the revenue they were entitled to receive to offset the higher cost of fuel.”
The bill has been sent to the president to be signed into law.
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