What would be a successful owner operators take-home pay percentage?

Not enough information to compute.

 

I think what noluck is getting at is there is far too many what ifs to make a stab in the dark
Simple as driving habits between 2 o/o in identical trucks could be $5,000/yr or more in fuel cost alone.. Depending on other factors that amount could be a significant % of profits

 

I pay myself 30% ... have since I started out. Same as I would pay a topped out employee.

 

Usually, like in you case, 50% goes for operating expenses, 25% to the driver and 25% to the owner of the truck. In reality it can range from 0 to 100% depending on the type of work, season, e.t.c

 

Are you talking about owners who're independent or leasing their truck(s) to a company(ies)?
Every place is different, and it depends on how much you drive and how fast you drive. Your operating costs have lots of factors too.
I know about 2 of the mega carriers.
Swift has a scale that pays $1.18 per mile under 100 miles and it pays less as you get over 300 miles to $1.12 per mile. All empty miles are $1.11
Schneider, depending on The board you choose to work, or if you're tanker or hazmat pays 65% of the load.
Hope that helps a little.
2 of my family members are also owners like me and they haul intermodal locally from a rail depot to customers regionally. They make $1.06 per mile and $60 per hazmat load. At Swift I only get $40 per hazmat but a better per mile.
Another friend who's an owner op at Pam gets paid millage.
All 4 of us range around $90k per year. All of us do hazmat and have tanker endorsements but none of us pull tankers.
Hope this helps a little

 

There is a certain pattern. Take home percentage diminishes at a quicker rate as the gross mileage increases despite increasing gross pay that comes with it. More wear and tear and maintenance, also less per mile rate are the factors. So, if there is a lot of long distance miles, there is a smaller take home percentage. If there is less miles,as in more regional runs, the percentage increases. For example, for a dry van, running long distance, over 150k all odometer miles a year can give you over 220 gross from which you take home 100 -120K. In more regional runs, up to 80k miles a year can generate realistically 150- 160k a year but the take home percentage is much higher, if I can extrapolate my own year to date experience, about 80 - 90k.
When I was running long distance my profit per mile was about 72 - 75 c (based on all miles), in this regional, (much more home time set up), it is somewhere 1 - 1.10. It has increased in the last few months substantially.