{"id":140401,"date":"2022-06-11T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/truckers-warn-skyrocketing-diesel-prices-are-making-us-supply-chain-and-trucking-industry-unsustainable"},"modified":"2022-06-11T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:43:16","slug":"truckers-warn-skyrocketing-diesel-prices-are-making-us-supply-chain-and-trucking-industry-unsustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/truckers-warn-skyrocketing-diesel-prices-are-making-us-supply-chain-and-trucking-industry-unsustainable","title":{"rendered":"Truckers warn skyrocketing diesel prices are making US supply-chain and trucking industry unsustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/truckers-warn-skyrocketing-diesel-prices-are-making-us-supply-chain-and-trucking-industry-unsustainable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something drastic doesn\u2019t change in the next few weeks\/months, I promise you, you\u2019ll see empty shelves everywhere you look,\u201d Smith wrote in a post that was shared nearly 290,000 times. \u201cYou\u2019ll see chaos as people fight for the basic necessities of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith did not respond to a request for comment from Insider in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Insider spoke with five truckers who warned that the industry could be at a breaking point. The drivers say they\u2019ve had to get creative in recent months as they work to turn a profit while spending thousands at the pump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf something drastic doesn\u2019t change in the next few weeks\/months, I promise you, you\u2019ll see empty shelves everywhere you look,\u201d Smith wrote in a post that was shared nearly 290,000 times. \u201cYou\u2019ll see chaos as people fight for the basic necessities of everyday life.\u201d Smith did not respond to a request for comment from Insider [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}