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authority $100
road taxes $500
maintenance $1500
other?
truck and trailer payment $2000
insurance $700
phone $100
internet $50
load boards $100
no tolls
no oversize loads
no parking
figure gas at $4/gal and mpg at 6mpg including idle time
figure he runs 8k miles/month
What does this driver have to make per mile to break even? $1.30????
edited to add in expenses and break even # in red
I haven't taken the time to read the other nine pages so this or something similar may already have been offered, but I have been running flatbed on my own authority since April and here is what it takes for me to break even, assuming 8,000 miles per month:Originally Posted by charged
Lets take an owner operator that has the following monthly expenses:authority $100
road taxes $500
maintenance $1500
other?
truck and trailer payment $2000
insurance $700
phone $100
internet $50
load boards $100
no tolls
no oversize loads
no parking
figure gas at $4/gal and mpg at 6mpg including idle time
figure he runs 8k miles/month
What does this driver have to make per mile to break even? $1.30????
edited to add in expenses and break even # in red
Fixed costs per month: $2,400
Operating Costs: $0.96 (or at least it was last time I checked, fuel has come down since then so I will guess 0.92) per mile.
8000 miles * 0.92= $7360 op costs +$2400 fixed costs =$9760 total costs / 8000 miles = $1.22 per mile breakeven point
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