Lewie Pugh

“So when you're already constrained and something like this happens to this magnitude, you just can't absorb it as a motor carrier. They just can't. There's no way – they'll be out of business tomorrow.”

Lewie Pugh · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-16

Pugh says motor carriers cannot absorb such large diesel price increases and risk going out of business.

“Trucking has a very slim profit margin already. There's just not a lot of profit in trucking. I've always said it was a penny saved business, not a penny made business,”

Lewie Pugh · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-16

An OOIDA executive describes trucking's slim profit margins amid rising diesel costs.

“This has huge rippling effects in the supply chain and in the economy because trucking and truckers haul so much stuff,”

Lewie Pugh · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-16

Pugh says higher trucking costs ripple through the supply chain and the broader economy.