Bad news on steel & chrome parts.

[GMCPaul]

We have received notification from all but one supplier of price increases on chrome & steel parts, as a example Goodmark told us by beginning of June they will be sending us a new price catalog and in it every part will see at least a $1.00 increase in price on small parts and parts such as cowl hoods will increase another $50.00 per hood. We are hearing this from every major supplier of steel and chrome parts except for one. The reason for the price increase they state is steel prices have climbed 35-90%, the price of the materials to chrome parts has increased nearly 10 times and shipping rates are on the increase to get the parts to us do to increased fuel costs. So I wanted to let you all know around the beginning of June truck parts will be increasing in cost on most all steel or chrome related parts. So if you plan on ordering from a truck parts retailer any time in the near future don't hesitate to long or your budget might be wrecked with price increases.
Sorry for the bad news but I figured you would all like to know in advance of it happening to hopefully save some money by buying before we all get hit with these price increases.
GMCPaul

[Krosati]

All because of rising oil prices!. Damned OPEC!

[dark-star]

the major part of the price increase (oil included) is our friends the chinease, they are buying all the oil and scrap steel for building stuff for us to buy at wal-mart, we brought a lot of this on ourselves by buying the cheap part-toy-shirt-etc... by the way i work in concrete and we will have a supply shortage and price spike in about another month as our friends at la-farge (french owned producer of concrete, biggest supplier to the u.s. via lehigh which they also own)) are selling the product to the china market as they are currently buying it at a rate faster than we are!