What is your operating cost per mile (poll)?

Tags $1600/4 weeks $400???????? You pay 1600 a month for IRP Tags? Ouch.

 

No. 1600 year break down to 4 weeks.
Paid in a month that way or 12 months $133.33 or The one month either way you spent 1600

 

The 400 is what I did not understand? Tags $1600/4 weeks $400 So instead of 400 it should have been 133.33.

 

You updated it. OK fixed that mistake.

 

yep, was doing it from memory knowing costs somehow i added it as if it was every month as additional $400 instead of one and done

 

Sounds good!
And should be simple but this happens in every business
I can undercut some company and take their work from them right up to the point I either can’t service the customer or I find out operating out of my container doesn’t work very well and have to spend $$ for a better location and now I’m needing the same money as the guy I just undercut

 

What’s this fortune you speak of?

Another part of the equation is the definition of “good money, or fortune”

A guy who lives with his parents. Has free rent and groceries etc can call $100 a day good money
Another who has nice equipment. Takes vacations. Has a home and family etc might look at $1000 per day as good

And yet another who maybe has all those same things puts a value on his get out of bed time and won’t start the truck for less than $2,000

 

Your right .. but I sure can't speak for them..
I can only say the way I watched some of them throw money down on trucks and trailers tripping over each other to buy them .. my guess would be they expected to make 1000+ a day profit after expenses..
I'am gonna steal a cliche that I saw @bzinger use .... MONEY DRUNK... thats how they were acting

 

Hey C’mon now
I changed that to Monkey Drunk
He’s out!

 

Exactly. This is my current expense spreadsheet which doesn't include my accountants fee that I'll be paying next week when we meet which is roughly $1200, doesn't include the $17k business tax or $4500 personal tax checks that I mailed out a couple weeks ago to uncle Sam for 2021...

Left column is current month, right column is YTD... I pay myself $7500 per quarter which I just did last week, thats why the wages column for this month looks so high at $2.12...

These numbers are with truck payment only even though the column shows Truck/Trailer Payments, thats how the program is set-up. I own the trailer outright so no payment on it...