Analysis through BBC Scotland News suggests there are at least 226 websites – stretching from the Borders to Shetland – the place the cost of a litre of diesel is larger than £2.
Some of the best prices are in island and rural spaces, together with 238.8p and 223p within the Hebrides and 209.0p and 208.9p within the Northern Isles.
South Uist-based haulier Norman MacAskill mentioned it value 32p a litre to fill a lorry’s tank when he began within the haulage industry 40 years in the past, however it used to be now £2.22.
“Anyone who is running a lorry is absolutely devastated when they get their fuel bill at the end of the month. There’s no business on earth that can withstand that increase in costs,” he mentioned.
MacAskill’s haulage company, N D MacAskill & Son, transports farm animals round Inverness, Dingwall and Stirling but in addition additional afield.
“We do a bit of livestock haulage from the north of Scotland down to the north of England,” he mentioned.
“It’s a devastating cost on a fuel run on that job,” he mentioned.
MacAskill added: “This has been going on every year for the last 10 years now. The cost of running a haulage business has just gone over the top.
“There are dozens of haulage companies which were established 50-60 years with large numbers of lorries going to the wall. When is that this going to forestall?”
Dave Neil, who runs Sinclair Haulage which serves Sanday, Stronsay and Eday in Orkney, said his business was spending £400 a week more on diesel than it was before the summer.
“It’s a difficult state of affairs,” he said.
Neil said he was forced to add an extra fee to his customers’ costs.
“It’s almost certainly the fairest manner,” he said. “When the gas value drops we will take that surcharge away.”