Is this a fair representation of O/O costs per mile?

Well my Base Cost( fixed and variable) just to operate the truck is 1.12. That does not include MY pay nor profit for company. Right now all in is 2.05 pm. Everybody's number are different, based on type of freight, fuel mileage, payments, etc. you will get a dozen different numbers.

 

My figures are very similar to this 1.03. Then you have to add driver pay which I feel for a driver of my caliber should be 75 cpm and then company profit for investment 25 cpm. Now you are looking at 2 bucks per mile break even.

 

$1.35-$1.50 per/mile paying my self .40 c/mile

 

$1.60 too high? $1.60 too low? I know what I would ask but what are you asking?

 

what you are mot seeing is the FSC that would be added to the $1.60 and most companies also give you a fuel discount

 

you have to everage $1.60 or more on all miles, than you make more than company driver. so that would be 50c/mile which some company drivers are making in Chicagoland

 

When I was a company driver, I was trained by an O/O at a company paying $0.98 a mile to O/O's. That, plus FSC, came out to about $1.40-$1.75/mi. He was making pennies a mile, and had been at it for years. He blamed his students for not driving enough to make him money, but the truth is his overhead was so high, and income so low, he never would have made more than a company driver making the pay cap at the time, which was 38cpm.