As fuel prices skyrocket, Houston businesses and workers ‘can’t keep up’
continued to delay deliveries, creating long gaps between when he gives his customers quotes for their orders and when those orders are fulfilled. In between, fuel surcharges may have doubled or tripled, forcing his company to often eat the additional costs.“It just adds costs because nobody knows what is going on,” he said. “And seem like they’re just going one way and that’s up. And it’s resulted in higher rates and higher quotes.
“It just comes at you in a bunch of different directions at once,” he said of his snowballing expenses.Many business already are passing higher energy costs to customers. Brent Barron, the owner of Füd Düd’s Mobile Kitchen in Galveston, has been
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