Our Present Fuel Surcharge as of November 16th, 2024 is 18%

In 2001 fuel prices jumped from $0.50 to over $0.70 for the first time. The trucking industry responded by the implementation of a fuel surcharge as a way of offsetting this fluctuating expense.

Red River Messenger/Courier Inc’s fuel Surcharge Schedule is based on a $0.55 litre and grows by 1% for every $0.05 change in fuel prices.

Red River Messenger/Courier Inc will continue to follow this guideline indefinitely.

When fuel surpassed $1.40 in the summer of 2008, our fuel surcharge reached 18%.
December 1, 2008 fuel dropped down to $0.90 a litre, our fuel surcharge was 8%.

For most of 2010 fuel prices remained stable and our fuel surcharge stayed at 9% all year.

In 2011 fuel prices fluctuated but never reached heights seen in 2008.

Should fuel drop below $0.55 a litre Red River Messenger/Courier would not have a fuel surcharge.

In late 2012 diesel fuel reached an unprecedented  high and continues to be a major expense in the trucking industry.

Since February 1, 2014 fuel surcharge has been calculated as the average price of regular gasoline and diesel.

(For example if gasoline is $1.10/ litre and diesel $1.35/ litre. Then the average of the two is $1.23 and fuel surcharge would be 14%)

Carbon Tax – Effective April 1 2019 the federal government implemented a levy on fuel. This added tax will simply be reflected in our calculation as total fuel price and will continue to use the same schedule.