Truckers’ fuel crisis

If truck fuel prices stay at more than $2 a gallon, my husband and I will lose everything we have worked to build, along with many other Mainers.

Truckers in Maine are getting hit hard, when they come home to drive their cars to the store and when their heating oil tanks are filled. My husband and I have spent three years paying for our truck and in one fuel price raise we could lose it all. We have just as much need for assistance as the Great Northern Paper people.

I have insurance and house payments to make; how do I do that if my husband spends all his money on truck fuel? Someone needs to talk to our lenders and ask them to defer payments on loans and possibly look for low-interest loans to be paid back after the fuel crisis is over.

Yes, there is a fuel crisis. Go to Dysart’s truck stop and ask a few owner-operators or go to the local trucking companies and ask what fuel prices are doing to their profits. We don’t deserve to lose all we have because fuel prices are beyond our reach. Help is needed for Maine truckers, too.

Serena Daigle

Mariaville