To reduce overall costs, shippers often modify their fuel surcharges by changing the index, raising the peg, or raising the escalator. But which of these methods actually can achieve the goal? Using the latest research on fuel surcharges, this paper explains how fuel surcharges work, what actually happens to costs as shippers employ three common tactics to modify fuel surcharges, and which of these three tactics can lower costs

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