Load profitability estimate, how do you figure yours?

Fuel prices swing at the latest tweet about the war.
04/17 President says Straight is OPEN at 0830 EDT.
Stock market adds 3%, dow rallies 1200 points at open.
1430 CNN reports Iran says Straight not open anymore, US Market closed.
Oil down -11% on the day to 85$ ish a barrel (pre war running 79$ a barrel) which should price diesel down to about 3.25 a gallon down in texas.

Shhh...it's still 4.49 a gallon in houston this weekend via mudflap.

 

Trucking Office does all that for you.

 

Yep, my truck costs 1.06 per miles to run, daily

My salary is .80 mi daily

My loads average 2.36/mi

 

Running mile or loaded mile

 

Honestly the closest I've found is a beat up spreadsheet. Truckbytes and DAT have calculators but they don't combine weather and HOS clocks into one view. If you're okay with a quick approximation, a flat per hour baseline for the truck plus mileage cost plus tolls gets you close, and you can eyeball the HOS side in your head. The all in one tool doesn't really exist that I've found.

 

On how many miles? 1.06 seems low. I mean I’m at a dollar a mile in fuel cost and .25 cent per mile insurance cost on a 10,000 mile month. Probably another .25 in maintenance cost. Another .50 in equipment replacement cost. That’s 2 bucks right there.

If I have an 8,000 mile month those numbers go up. A 12,000 mile and they go down.

 

All these "calculations" do is show what happened in the past.

 

If we could calculate the future we’d all be millionaires

 

Yep, I'm usually above those rates, and I'm making it work leased on to a big tanker company.

I don't pull anything less than 2.36 mile, depends on inflation.

I will say one thing, this fuel crisis has actually made me more money when diesel is 5$ a gallon. I drive a plastic truck that gets consistent 8 MPG loaded at 79K lbs. Super truckers have sat the Pete's on the sidelines and I'm reaping the benefits.