{"id":62846,"date":"2026-10-16T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fuel-costs-squeezing-margins-for-some-jersey-businesses\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:54:51","slug":"fuel-costs-squeezing-margins-for-some-jersey-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fuel-costs-squeezing-margins-for-some-jersey-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel costs squeezing margins for some Jersey businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fuel costs are also having a &#8220;noticeable impact&#8221; for tree surgeons, Jonathan Le Maistre Ltd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darren Hopkins, from the firm, said &#8220;we depend on our vans, trucks, chippers, stump grinders, and other machinery that consume significant amounts of fuel&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Increased diesel prices will raise our operating costs, reducing margins on jobs and making it more difficult to absorb costs without passing some of them on to our customers&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hopkins said continued increases would be a &#8220;concern for their business, and the wider industry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, some businesses are managing through the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeremy Phillips, from Barette Plant Hire, said it &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been too much of an issue so far, but that fuel surcharges are being added to hourly rates&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said that &#8220;if the prices keep going up, customers aren&#8217;t going to be carrying on with their projects&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9rky27ljrxno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel costs are also having a &#8220;noticeable impact&#8221; for tree surgeons, Jonathan Le Maistre Ltd. Darren Hopkins, from the firm, said &#8220;we depend on our vans, trucks, chippers, stump grinders, and other machinery that consume significant amounts of fuel&#8221;. &#8220;Increased diesel prices will raise our operating costs, reducing margins on jobs and making it more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[351,919,918,11167,17117,17116],"class_list":["post-62846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-businesses","tag-costs","tag-fuel","tag-jersey","tag-margins","tag-squeezing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62848,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62846\/revisions\/62848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}