Diesel Is Breaking Records While Gasoline Stays Cheap, And The Reason Is Not What Most Truckers Think

CDL & Trucking News · · Source: FreightWaves · By Adam Wingfield · 7 min read at the source

FreightWaves editor-at-large John Kingston, right, and GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan discuss diesel’s record run and its break from gasoline on stage at F3 in Chattanooga.(Photo: Patrick Hatzis, FreightWaves)
FreightWaves editor-at-large John Kingston, right, and GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick De Haan discuss diesel’s record run and its break from gasoline on stage at F3 in Chattanooga.(Photo: Patrick Hatzis, FreightWaves)

For the better part of eight months the price of diesel has climbed to levels that gasoline has not come close to matching, and for a carrier whose single largest variable cost is the fuel in the tank, that split is not a curiosity but a direct hit to the bottom line, which is why […]

Reported by Adam Wingfield for FreightWaves (F3: Future of Freight Festival), originally published October 27, 2026.

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Topics: F3: Future of Freight Festival, Fleet and Maintenance, Market Conditions, Playbook: Fuel Game Plan

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