Rookie leasing to land star ......

So I’ve been truck driving for 1 year now and I’m tempted to buy a truck and work at land star. I have some money saved up to make a nice down payment on a truck so after just a few years I won’t have to worry about making monthly payments on it. My total operation costs for the first 2 years will be $1.76 per mile, after my truck payments are over then it will go down to $1.43 per mile. How is landstars rates and can I still make some good money with a operating cost of $1.43 per mile. That’s the costs for everything, including taxes ect

 

Fuel, maintenance, insurance, permits, tolls, supplies, food, and taxes. I rounded up pretty high because I rather prepare for the worst then prepare for the best lol

6MPG at $3.00 a gallon = .50
In reality I’ll probably get 8MPG and at $2.70 or less per gallon but who knows when prices will skyrocket ect


I bassed my math on 100,000 mile work year ...... per mile costs

Fuel 0.50
Taxes 0.50
Maintenance 0.15
Insurance 0.10
Permits 0.05
Tolls 0.05
Supplies 0.05
Food 0.06

= $1.46 a mile

 

No, I have over a $100,000 saved up in the bank so I’m going to buy my own truck and trailer. I get 73% of the revenue and the land star takes 27%

 

I’m 24 years old, no girlfriend/wife or kids. At age 21 I became one of the youngest GMs in the country and ran a restaurant in Dallas Texas. Though, I’m a dreamer and I like to build and create things. I didn’t want to stay at a job that I would eventually just settle down with. So I quit a year ago and got into truck driving. Got rid of all my bills and I’ve just been saving, saving and saving. My ultimate goal is to have a small trucking company, open up 5 restaurants and then potentially hotels/apartments as well. I also have all of other ideas that I would like to try but I’m trying to keep things realsisc. Lol

 

Will be pulling van