Fuel prices: with 150 liters of diesel consumed per day, this delivery company “takes a hit”

“We are really impacted by the war in Iran. Since 2011, I have never seen this! » Nordine Tadj is manager of À l’heure transports, the company he founded fifteen years ago and whose depot is located in Buc, near Versailles (Yvelines). At the head of five employees and a fleet of five 20 m2 trucks which operate throughout Île-de-France – Paris included – and two heavy goods vehicles which deliver throughout France and Europe, he sees the diesel pump counters ticking faster and faster. And its cash flow is disappearing visibly. “The treasury is taking a hit and, still, I still have some left but some already don’t have any,” notes the independent, fatalistically.

“Last week, a liter of diesel was 1.99 euros at the Intermarché near our depot (in January, it was 1.65 euros on average in mainland France, according to INSEE). It was already very expensive. Today it has risen to 2.34 euros. Even when prices had skyrocketed twice in recent years, they had never gone this high,” says the boss in despair.

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