own authority - expenses/year

Yes but he will also get fuel discount and fuel surcharge. ..and can charge demerge if he draw the contract up right

 

Running under his own authority he most likely wont get a fuel surcharge, you just build it into your rate. He can get a discount of some sort but I still think it would come pretty close to $80k unless he buys something a little more economical thats capable of 7mpg.

 

Is he talking about brokering freight and load board. ...or being certified carrier for a couple companies under his own authority?

 

I was under the impression he was going to operate one truck/trailer under his own numbers and pull loads from brokers.

 

Running a business, there is not a "one size fits all" book. Way to many variables. Each operation has it's own expenses, profits , losses. Your on the right track to plan it out ahead of time. You will here a million responses from this post. Most won't help you, because that's someone else's idea/plan.

 

Hmmm I come up with different math on fuel.

10500 per month
x12 months
126,000 miles

You must be paying top dollar at the 4.19 a gallon. IFTA card should put you at around 3.19 a gallon. Even at worst mileage, 5 mpg = 25,200 gallons. At pump price ($4.19) I get $105588.00 Or IFTA $80388. I realize OP said 80k, yet your better off figuring high instead of low. Otherwise your going to shoot your own feet. Also that 10,500 I presume your never seeing side trips / down time. If your a NASCAR or any type sports fan (not that I am) yet figuring you may bobtail somewhere it would be better to set mileage at 11k miles (11,000 per month). There may be service days or you wanted to get some bling, who knows why you got an extra 500 miles. Yet as I said before, better to figure higher than rock bottom.

 

You ought to figure out your equipment and cut down on scale tickets to like 2 or 3 in a year. Use the air suspension gauge. Look at how it's loaded.

 

2 scales a year???? I would be scaling per load. Yes it is a cost, but I would rather not find out I was over the 80,000# if I got pulled over.

 

Get a axle gauge...

 

Yea but one of us might put another idea in his head that he might change up and do it his way...it never hurts to listen. ..