It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show, where it's all about your

empowerment with knowledge so that you can make smart financial decisions in your life.

And I want to tell you so many of us going to be traveling by car in the next few days.

There's really great news as you know with the pump.

As they're now lower than they were before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where we saw record

all time gas prices earlier this year.

And let me tell you, you and I have been hurting truckers, independent over the road truckers,

have had it worse than anybody else.

Why has it been so rough for them?

Well, because you may not notice when you drive down the road, but diesel prices have

gone absolutely crazy.

So these truckers have been paying a zil for every gallon.

And those trucks where they got 3, 4, 5 miles a gallon, imagine that.

And there was a huge gap between the cost of regular and trucker diesel.

And now not only have gas prices come way down, but what truckers have to pay has been

coming down, not as fast but coming down.

And in the low gas cost states, prices are in the twos again per gallon.

And that's like money back in your pocket.

I mean earlier this year, you went to fill up, money was just flying out of your wallet.

And now the reverse has happened and that fill up is costing a whole lot less.

But it's not just these crazy moves with gasoline.

You may have heard we had a really good inflation report earlier this month.

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