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Truck Payment = $0.25 per mile This is for a new truck under warranty. (less if you get more paid miles)
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It's also less if the truck is paid off or if its a used truck. I'll stand with .20 for mile on this. Seems the vast majority of O/Os with new trucks drive for swift, nearly everyone else has a used truck.
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Operator health insurance and workers comp (or similar) $1,000 per month/10,000 miles per month = $0.10 per mile. A company driver will get this in addition to their per mile pay, so that should be in addition to the $0.50 operator wage above.
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This is an option that drivers can pay for if they want - or it costs nothing to go without it. If an O/O wants this insurance, it comes out of their own pocket since it has no impact on whether or not they can do their job or carry out their contractual obligation of hauling freight.
To me, this cost can be bundled along with food, entertainment, house payment, electric bill, etc.
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Maintenance costs tires, oil changes, minor repairs (tractor only) = $0.05 per mile.
Maintenence rainy day fund = $0.05 per mile (Again this is for a new tractor under warranty, a used tractor will require more maintenence)
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I understand your including this as an expense, as it is a necessity - I just don't see it as my obligation to provide an additional .10/mile for maintenence.
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Trailer rental costs (or are you going to be providing the trailers?) = $0.10 per mile.
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The best quote I got so far was about $800/month (.08/mile) for cargo, bob tail, trailor, etc. insurance. Plates, permits cost some $400 and is a once a year charge that the O/O is welcome to purchase on their own if they can get a better deal - same goes for insurance.
Tolls and incidental expenses such as fuel tax, highway tax, permits. . . = $0.10 per mile.[/quote]
Some customers pay a surcharge for extensive toll roads, others do not - either way, while that might cost .10/mile, that would be something that might happen only on a load by load basis that involved driving toll roads.
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BTW, my actual fuel cost for the last week, was $0.43 cpm!
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Thanks for your honesty. This is what I am talkng about. Rawlco is trying to make me go broke with his .73/mile fsc. :?
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A detail but most FSC's I've run across use a base price of $1.10-$1.25. Where did you came across $1.50 to use as a base?
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It is a figure we have been using for some +3 years - well before most of our customers even paid fsc, we were paying a fsc to our drivers out of our own pocket based on fuel prices above $1.50 per gallon.