Fuel surcharges

[Sieg]

These surcharges are starting to get a little hard to swallow.

Keep this in mind when pricing from our vendors may appear a little high.

Here's what I'm looking at:

I'm in the process of preparing a bid for a job that is 4500 sq ft of carpet tile. Our Watkins Sheppard rate out of Dalton to Eugene is $694, their fuel surcharge rate is up to 37.5% or $260 for a total of $954 or $0.21 sq. ft. net.

A competitive GPM for this job will be around 15% or in this case $2,470 on a $16,470 bid. The freight expense with 15% margin is just about half the gross profit. It factors to about 9% increase of our quoted cost on the carpet fob the mill.

End of rant.