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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
You are missing a whole lot of things from your figures.
Fuel and driver wages are only two of many.
You operational costs will also include
Truck payment
Trailer payment
Truck maintence
Trailer maintence
Truck insurance
trailer insurance
cargo insurance
worker's comp
plates and permits
communications
fuel taxes
and the list goes on.
No, I have figured truck payment, trailer payment, truck and trailer insurance. Those are my OWnership costs. In other words, those are costs that I will have to pay even if the truck just SITS there in the lot. I'm only concerned with OPERATING expenses.
Of these, I would like to know more about plates and permits, fuel taxes, and truck and trailer maintainence. Those are three that I am completely in the dark in.
1. What are fuel taxes? This is on top of fuel expenses? Please explain.
2. Truck and trailer maintainence - What's a maintainence schedule for a big rig?
3. Plates and permits - What and which??
Mackman, thanks but no thanks. You're about 90,000 statements late in being the first person to tell me just what you said. All I'd like to hear is some hard facts and figures from the experts, which are you guys as near as I can figure. I'll decide for myself (and the facts will help me) if this is worth it or not.
If I've learned anything in my short life, it's that I should never listen to naysayers. If I had, I would not have gotten married, I would not have had kids, I would not have left my pie $25 an hour UNION job (which I hated) to work with my dad's small business (which I love)
Not trying to p#ss you off, buddy, but you don't know squat about what I
think about getting in the trucking industry. I just refuse to be swayed by biased, obloviaters, or opinion.
I prefer the
facts.