The real cost of trucking, from all the owner/ops seat

what’s the real cost of trucking in 2023?
Feel free to add how many cups of coffee you had? How many weeks did you stay out or how much home time or make it interesting? Lay it on us, detail all the goods for services expensed fuel, insurance, permits, tolls, repairs, tickets, tires, IFTA, all trailer types, all driver types, fleet owners, team or solo owner/ops all welcome.. this post is probably gonna interesting with all the different vehicles and driver types.. you can display gross totals or by mile, however you keep track.

Here’s an example format

• Vehicle/trailer type:
• Gross Miles: 156,000
• Gross Rev: $400,000
• Pay Per Mile Avg: $2.56
• The rest of the list of stuff just keeps going and going
• Coffee: 350 cups all pilot/love points lol

 

my opportunity is a little different. Contract mile & production. I’m on a few dedicated routes at the moment; under contract for the year it’s just because of where I live. But I stay out a lot, working, complete all my assignments/deliveries. I have no problem doing 3,500+ miles a week if can do more within 70hr awesome. so I just have a flat-rate, in the future higher would be awesome, I plan to have enough saved up to get a couple trucks and multi unit the authority. Which means I gotta prepared to babysit the homies & keep them well fed by the mile, busy by the day/week/quarter.. We’ll see how the markets go… but it really comes down to is shop rates going forward and no part delays so hopefully you know maintenances cheaper, rates go up… that’s the next eight months mathematically could improve for all of us and I’ll be all right

so 3500 loaded miles blowing out my 70, 56hrs driveline, averaging nearly 60 miles an hour trying to net $.75 after taxes… also I’m 33 so I’m still young pretty much, so my insurance is higher ($17.5k a year) than the average because the normal drivers like 45 on average.. if they had the same experiences, me which is nearly 8 years now coming up on 1,500,000 miles. People say it’s impressive, but I don’t really think it’s too impressive just yet I still have work to do

More importantly though (hehehe)… I recently had a trademark pass in the United States trademark office for marketing/branding… which is super important for not only transportation, but the broker side of things as well as marketing and other services so we’ll see what becomes of it as I put it all together slowly but surely

@Mr Uturn @TheLoadOut

oh, and I don’t drink coffee lmao so, maybe like 15 cups of hot chocolate

 

Understandable but to each their own, it’s supposed to be free market. The choice is there’s. I only responded because @Mr Uturn asked & I responded the way I did because @TheLoadOut

the. the post is like a week old stale lol.. also were in a dysfunctional industry where people care but then they don’t care, but then they do care because they don’t care.. hate/love relationship… These days we roll up to an exit ramp and Loves is $4.00 a gallon, pilot is $3.99 a gallon and TA is $3.90 a gallon & without additives Quiktrip/Maverik/Racetrac $3.25 a gallon. we roll up to the pump. There’s a company driver driving off with the fuel hoses still in there passenger fuel tank completely forgot to put the nozzle attached to the fuel hose back on the pump.

totally understand we’re you’re coming from @REO6205 fact I honestly thought Mr. U-turn was a robot to create engagement but then load out replied like five minutes later so I was like okay maybe there’s real people here.

@abyliks insurance for flatbed? right now I’m with dry van trailer right now just hauling around general freight, automotive stuff, some metal and seeds. But when I did a quote on a flatbed coverage, chain, binder, dismemberment, all the policies etc etc my insurance rate was like nearly $25k-$30k area