How much does it cost to run a truck?
 

What is the real cost?

Including fuel spikes, inflation on everything else, slowing economy, cheating carriers, down time, various risk factors, ect.

Anything else you can add.
Tell me true...

Too much.

$59.95

59.95?

you must have an older truck, costs me 56.95!!!
plus a marriage, my kids hate me, my back is killing me and I forgot what my house looks like.

Sorry there #2 but what your asking is for someone to write a freaking book in response to your request.

All your questions have been answered already in this forum by doing some searching. They may not be the right answers but will give you the knowledge to formulate your own conclusions.

TRANSLATION = I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT COSTS ME TO OPERATE

.91cpm without figuring in depreciation on my truck(waiting for the CPA on this one,as I am not clear on how it works to tell the truth).

mike, does your .91 include what you take in salary?

Depreciation is tricky for several reasons.

First, the "government" method isn't the true method.

Second, we never really know what our truck is worth unless we trade it or sell it.

What I do, is take my payments at face value. For example, my payments were $1400 a month, and I was doing 10,000 miles a month. My truck cost was 14 CPM. I simply took it at face value for 3.5 years.

Now that it is paid off, my truck "depreciation" is zero, because I've taken my payments at face value the whole time. You could do the math, and figure that you're slowly passing your depreciation(but not in the first couple years) but that to me doesn't make sense.

I'm not talking about taxes here, just simply my own calculation of my truck cost.

Taking both the 14 CPM then somehow(I don't know how you would do it) adding depreciation, would be double dipping in a negative way. It wouldn't be true cost at all.

EXPENSES

FIXED
Truck payment
Truck Depreciation
License, Permits, FHUT
Truck Insurance
Health Ins
Legal and Accounting costs

VARIABLE
fuel
fuel tax
repairs
outside labor
Phone / Communication
Motel
Office
Company Charges
Supplies
Miscellaneous

PERSONAL EXPENSES
Family Support
Mortgage
Auto
Food on the road
Entertainment
Hotels
Car rental


Thats what I came up with... just fill in the blanks :o