{"id":348726,"date":"2026-09-16T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:30:14","slug":"consumer-alert-diesel-prices-in-nys-top-6-a-gallon-costs-trucking-company-1800-for-1-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348726\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Alert: Diesel prices in NYS top $6 a gallon, costs trucking company $1,800 for 1 truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

HENRIETTA, N.Y. \u2014 Triple-A says the average cost of diesel in New York state is $6.26 a gallon, up from under $4 this time last year.<\/p>\n

News10NBC\u2019s Garrett Chan spoke with a local trucking company about how rising diesel prices impact its bottom line and how those costs get passed down to consumers. At the Sunoco gas station on West Henrietta Road in Henrietta, diesel is $6.49 a gallon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got about 60 trucks in our fleet, some over the road close to call, some regional, some local. We haul perishables, dry plastics, metals, you know, anything that goes into box trailers,\u201d Alex Voronin said.<\/p>\n

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Voronin, owner of Lakeville Trucking Inc., said the trucks carry about 300 gallons of fuel. With current diesel prices, it costs about $1,800 to fill up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to move the freight. So with the customer direct freight, it\u2019s all fuel surcharge. So it gets passed on to them automatically on a weekly basis. It gives us the price per week for that week of the gallon or per mile, and it gets paid for. So obviously customers will see higher cost writing. You know, their product, same line, same thing, but costs will be probably 40% more, maybe 50,\u201d Voronin said.<\/p>\n

Garrett tagged along with shop manager Alex Zentsev. They saw one driver filling up his truck at the Sunoco, with hundreds of dollars already spent to fill up the tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike the most important thing. We used to be using a lot of tires. Oil. That\u2019s the parts we need to change constantly. You can cheap up a little bit on the tires, but again, that\u2019s going to cost out there in fuel costs, fuel efficiency,\u201d Zentsev said.<\/p>\n

Zentsev said he tells his drivers to be aware of their fuel usage and to not have the truck idling. \u201cI\u2019m trying to explain to drivers like idling the truck overnight can cost, like up to $50, you know. Plus, we\u2019re counting the time of the loading and unloading, which is you can spend another eight hours. That can be 100 bucks a day just idling the truck,\u201d Zentsev said.<\/p>\n

Voronin told Garrett some of his customers have expressed frustrations with the increase in shipping prices. Those companies may delay some of their shipments if the load isn\u2019t urgent or perishable.<\/p>\n

The owner of Lakeville Trucking said the company has various fuel cards that can be used at different gas stations so it can take advantage of any discounts and find the best gas prices while out on the road.<\/p>\n

For our previous coverage about gas prices, click here<\/a>. You can also use GasBuddy\u2019s fuel finder<\/a> to find the lowest price.<\/p>\n

MORE: News10 Investigates: How to know you\u2019re getting what you pay for at the pump<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Consumer Alerts<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0diesel fuel<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Gas prices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENRIETTA, N.Y. \u2014 Triple-A says the average cost of diesel in New York state is $6.26 a gallon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130386,21846,22875,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-348726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-consumer-alerts","tag-diesel-fuel","tag-gas-prices","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}