Ryder/Penske et al will discount drastically (read 50% off) off the website rates...which are the board rates....which are the rates you get if you find yourself stranded at the side of the highway with no account set up with them. Even at the internet "This is the rate we will rent a truck to anybody for" rate it is still dramatically less than Rob's tractor operating costs for the past 3 months when you factor in lost revenue due to down time and weeks he could have walked away from the rental for lack of work. If he had been working off a good negotiated rental account for the past 3 months he could have been as much as $10,000 ahead of where he is now.
I'm not sure if you're an actual trucker....but a typical rule of thumb for trucking is to factor .15 cpm for maintenance and repairs on highway tractor. That's typical. Rob does not seem to be typical. When you look at the fact that the real numbers for rental power come in at less than just the cpm you should bank for repairs on an owned rig which sees only average repairs it's a no brainer.
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As to your monthly rate calculation earlier....a rule of thumb in the rental biz is 3 days typically equals a week....and 3 weeks typically equals a month....so your numbers were calculated a bit on the high side just off the board rates to begin with.
I'm thinking Ryder et al are probably hurtin just as bad as everyone else right now....rentals way down....can't move their used trucks off the sales lots....I bet one could negotiate a pretty good deal at the moment.
So...you can maybe see now why I think by using rental power as an O/O you can make one hell of a lot more money. As to your comment "you still have a trailer to pay for etc"...just the extra money rob would have made/kept over the past 3 months would have paid for 1/3 of a new hopper...So...I'm thinking an argument could be made that using rental power will allow you to pay for a high end new trailer in as little as a year. If you don't need a specialized trailer...you can rent trailers from them as well at rates that make owning your own trailer look stupid. They will rent trailers at rates that don't even seem to cover the cpm rubber cost for a regular joe blow.The Challenger Thanks this. -
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I'm losing track here... any of this poo landing on me?? lol.. just need to know if I should grab a tissue
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Help me out here if you would, are we suggesting this would be good news in the scheme of things??
Would I have to be losing air for one of those parts to be malfunctioning? Everything from hi to lo seemed to sound good and do it's part... a nice crisp psht sound when moving stick from left to right, and the splitter got different effects in the same hole when switched, it was at least partially doing something, just seemed maybe there was resistance to fully engaging down below even though the proper signals were being sent. -
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