Any money to be made?

That's what I figured too, but I still have to play with some numbers. I just don't want to set myself up for failure. These guys are running hard too, most are doing that 590 mile run 5 nights a week.
153, 400 miles yearly
12,783 monthly
2,950 weekly

I still have to figure out how many miles i would need monthly to cover my fixed cost and my variable cost to get to that point. Also would like to figure a realistic average for miles I would run. Say a couple weeks off a year for holidays/vacation, days unable to run due to possible break downs, slow downs in frieght, and unexpected delays that may cause me to miss that 5th trip. You'd make it up for some of it on the longer trips where you drive all day but still. Guess it helps to when we can legally drive for 13 hours a day. I also have no idea how I would add in accesorial pay when I have no idea how to factor that in until you've actually been doing it for a bit and seeing how often that arises. I'll leave that out of the equation for now if that's what will make or break me it's not even worth considering the adventure. lol

Question for you experienced guys. The truck I'm looking at is an 03 w900 with 620,000 miles. What should I be figuring for a per mile cost when it comes to tires, pm, and repairs?

 

Yeah, I would much rather estimate low and end up with more than estimate high and fall short.
I think anything in excess of my expenses will be going into a nest egg for big repairs etc until I can get a reasonable amount put away. Even then I plan to pay myself a realistic wage and look at what is left at the end of the year to figure out where it should be going. Whether it be towards a new truck, rrsp's for investment or tax break, more repairs, you catch my drift... thats if there's anything left over and I'm not in the hole having my truck taken away. =P

 

Even as for fuel what would a safe MPG estimate be?

03 w900 72" bunk 244" wheel base
detroit 60 series 18sp
running 62mph
60% decks 40% vans
60% loaded 40% empty

Most of our decks seem to leave the yard at the 20, 000lb - 30, 00lb range. Vans can be anywhere from light loads to a gross of 87, 000lbs.

If I purchase my own tractor I'll likely have to plate/register for a gvw of 63, 500kg in 12 months time. So just shy of 140, 000lbs but then pay changes also.

 

Using the calculator on the ooida website using as realistic numbers as possible and the current months rate at $1.30/mile plus 29.5% fsc as follows

Usings g/man's est of 130, 000 miles a year

gross income $1.68/m
fixed expenses $.20/m
variable expeses w/fuel 6mpg $.84/m
total espenses $1.05/m
my wage $.34/m
company profit $.30/m

Which would be $45,000 wage $39,000 company profit or a total profit of $84000/yr
I'd like to think i estimated expenses on the high side, the recommended 0.175 for tires, maintenance, repairs and I used real numbers for plates and insurance and miles on the low side. Still no accesorial pay though.

I also came up with a break even of
81000/miles yearly
6750/miles monthly
1557/miles weekly
to cover all fixed and the variables that go up with that to still take home $43,784 as a wage at the end of the year.

This all sound about right or are there some red flags?