{"id":590914,"date":"2026-04-07T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:11:10","slug":"australian-trucking-industry-warns-diesel-costs-unsustainable-as-customers-push-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590914\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian trucking industry warns diesel costs unsustainable as customers push back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truck drivers grappling with surging diesel costs say some customers are beginning to reduce or refuse orders as the industry attempts to pass on massive price increases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/households-brace-for-cost-of-living-shock-as-conflict-drives-up-prices-20260406-p5zljl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resulting from the Middle East conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers say some customers are already refusing to accept the latest price rises for freight, and are warning more will follow if diesel costs continue to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Truck drivers grappling with surging diesel costs say some customers are beginning to reduce or refuse orders as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-590914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}