subject: Will You Get The Fuel Surcharge Bill? [print this page] Trying to answer a novel question like, will you get the fuel surcharge bill, leaves most of us scratching our heads. It was obvious that we will have new taxes to pay, because gas prices are going up and people are increasingly trying to find new ways to cut back on spending. Such new taxes come in the form of a fuel surcharge. This surcharge will affect all of those that do any courier in NJ business, and let's face it, we all do.
All courier service providers base their operation costs on the expenditures and profits that their company has over a certain period. This is of course the first amendment of any business, but in today's world there isn't a more unstable expense than fuel. Fuel prices go up and down almost every week so the courier in NJ service providers needed a way to protect themselves from this constant inflation and deflation of gas prices. That's where the surcharge comes into the picture. The surcharge is usually based on the price of fuel at the moment of shipping. This additional tax is usually based on the U.S. Department Energy formula, which claims that on the level of threshold, the current cost of fuel, an additional 2% is added as a surcharge. But it goes a bit further, by adding an additional 2% for every ten cents.
The final amount that includes the surcharge is not as expensive as the formula would lead you to believe, however it has its significance when it comes to deciding on the scale of the shipment. There are also some ways in which money can be saved even when being billed for a surcharge, and they are as follows. Find a trusted courier service provider and deliver to them your plan of shipments with exact times and places of shipment and deliveries. This will help them plan out the route and perhaps incorporate your shipment with a combined transport and save you some money.
Shipping your goods as a bulk shipment will yield the same benefits that it usually yields for big businesses. If you can squeeze a thousand instead of five hundred widgets into a single box, then you can save a lot of money. Finally, being a regular customer of a single courier service provider will give you additional benefits and discounts.
In the end, the answer to the question, about whether you will be billed a surcharge for fuel, is not a resounding yes, but a resounding you probably will be, depending on the gas market and the constant fluctuations of gas prices.
