The journey begins - purchased a truck.

Been a little slack with my accounting figures, so here's a quarterly update.

Didn't work a day in February. Hats off to those that did, but that was a nasty cold month round here. We fared a lot better than a lot of folks, but I've never seen a 2 week period that drained a 500 gallon tank of propane and the years worth of firewood in one hit (well - had to help the neighbor a couple of times on the wood.)

Total miles YTD - 13,348
Total TTT. - $39,223
All miles TTT - $2.94

Profit/expense 57/43

Fuel is at .44 cpm
Maintenance is at .27 cpm.

As I've said before, I stuff the maintenance receipts packet pretty full with anything I can legitimately pass off - this year it's full of truck wash/polishing/tools and the $2200 I paid to Brunners for boxes for the new trailer. None has been spent at the mechanic. Same with supplies.

Though the all miles TTT is a significant dip from last year, the ,miles are a bit inflated, 1,000 miles in there for picking it up, and running it for inspections, box measuring etc.

I've been doing a lot of regional repeat moves, no escorts, just 2 state permits and roll. When they line up for a return trip it's $3,600 on 600 miles, or single trips for $1,800 on 500 - of which 320 is d/head. There should be pretty steady work from it - one or two a week for a couple of years. It doesn't exactly make bank, but for the single runs they take up a 12 hour day so it's not hard work.

The week out with the SD stretch proved promising too. So there's choices.

Truck

Looking back, I've had it close to 3 years now. Odometer reads 1,285,058. So it's pretty much junk and needs to be trashed.

As said with the overstuffed maintenance packets, the exact figure is a little hard to pull out, with a split year of the previous truck - but the total is about $80,000 spent in that time. So it's about time for a year where I am not my mechanics' best customer.

Future.

Nothing is solid - but there may be a recurring project close to home next year that would require another trailer, and year round work, but potentially generate $400k. Still 9 months out, and lots can change. But it's a light in the tunnel.

Hope you all have been well.

 

I’ve still got this one here -



It doesn’t have that accessory on the luggage rack like the red one does, I imagine that would be quite expensive.

 

Glad it gave you some entertainment!

Im not sure I could handle the Bronx on a daily basis - credit to you!

 

We have boxes on the step deck now.

Little . . Biddy . . Boxes.