Can owner operators make 4k per week after all expenses and taxes?

My amount would be way below on maintenance.
Example for you would be a few weeks ago I did load from MO to WA $5994 and came back on $3800. One week light loads. Fuel MPG was 8.4 MPG going out if I remember right. Fuel was 4.11 Gallon first filled up and was 4.35 another time and 4.36 on the three times I filled up on way up and back. Got 9.2 I think coming back. None of this includes IFTA/ License/ 2290/Personal property taxes or anything else. So you will not be able to give a true fact answer unless you know all of your cost. Total miles was around 3700.

 

The load to WA paid 3.24 per mile. Fuel would had been right around .50 a mile. Maintenance would be closer to .08 and your Authority expense is averaged out of every mile ran per year. So again without knowing all the details it means nothing per mile. If you know all miles driven in a year you can come up with that number. If you plan on driving 100K a year or 120K a year makes a big difference in the numbers per mile.

 

And why did you say and the end the change because of spot market rates? That is a spot market rate so no need to change it. I run spot market only.

 

I only ran 84,013 miles last year.
53550 loaded miles.

I’m a slacker..

 

I cant say much either I ran 76K last year because of health and issue with truck getting messed up from towing. But still made plenty not to worry about it.

 

Maintenance is hard to determine on a per-mile basis. You can run for months on end without any issues and the only maintenance would be truck washes and PMs then you lose turbo and all of a sudden your account is drained for 10K between towing, truck rental, and repairs. Trying to average it out may not make too much sense either because one year when rates are good you drive and drain your truck life - mileage faster than in poorer times when you pick trips more selectively. Also, in poorer times, counterintuitively, the per mileage maintenance may be exorbitant because this is the best time to fix many overdue things while there is little incentive to do work.
From my own experience, I never spent less than 15K and more than 25K per year but included all the things ranging from additives, truck washes, and tires to towing and turbo replacements.