00:01I think it's a little bit tougher than last time. We didn't quite see it go this high, but
00:06yeah, there's really not much we can do about it. We keep banging on the drum to try and get
00:11help
00:11and no one listens. So I guess we've just got to try and push through and see how we go.
00:16Currently about every three days, we're using anywhere between $7,000 and $8,000 worth of
00:21diesel. That's to run three trucks. I've got four, but I've just parked one up now. It's just not
00:28worth having all four of them on the road. And with the price that you can get for subby loads,
00:34it's just not viable because there's contracts out there where they won't put a fuel levy on. So
00:39it's just far easier to just park up and just hope that the trucks that I have got running can
00:45get me
00:45through. I am scraping the bottom of the barrel, unfortunately, but yeah, like I say, I've been
00:52doing this for 10 years now. I've had this business and I'm not just going to let it go without
00:55a fight.
00:56So I'm hoping that I can pull through. I haven't had any issues with availability.
01:01I guess we did hear that there was a lot of boats out at sea sitting there with storage on
01:06board,
01:06but yet the price has still gone up. So that's other questions to be asked. But yeah, we've had
01:13no problem with availability. It's just the price. It's just, yeah, it's getting beyond a joke now.
01:17I don't know. I've got no answers. It's just, you hear all this stuff on the news and it sort
01:23of
01:23doesn't all add up yet. We're just supposed to sit back and believe everything that they're saying.
01:29So, well, common sense says to drop the fuel excise again, doesn't it? But I guess we have
01:34no common sense these days. But even any sort of grant like we did through COVID, I hear that
01:41they handed $60 million overseas the other day. You know, you think about that and here we are
01:47struggling. I mean, if I had financial issues in my house, I'm not going to go help the neighbour
01:51first, am I? I'm going to sort out my problems. So I think they've got a lot to answer for.
01:56Even now you go out for tea. I've got three kids, family of five. We go out for tea and
02:01it's well
02:02over $200, $250. I mean, a couple of years ago, you could go out for tea and be what, $150
02:09to $180.
02:10So it just goes to show there, even when you go to the supermarket, one bag of shopping now is
02:14$200
02:15where you could fill a small trolley for that. Look, my kids were hoping that one day they could take
02:19this business over. But it's, you know, as these things are happening, it's looking more and more
02:24unlikely. And it's not only the transport industry. That's what people also have to understand. I mean,
02:31everyone says that, you know, we're just throwing all these big fuel levies on and we're making a
02:35heap of money out of it. It's not the case. We've been concerned. There's a lot of people in the
02:39transport industry that have been concerned about the everyday Australian and what they're going to pay.
02:42I guess we see it firsthand with the prices we have to charge and how quickly the prices have
02:49to go up to keep up with it to what everyone's got to pay. Everyone down the line's got to
02:54make
02:55that up. Like, my son's an apprentice and to fill his car each week is becoming like $200 yesterday to
03:01put fuel in his car. And he's on, what, $500 or $600 a week. It's just, it's getting unsustainable for
03:08everybody.
