What's wrong with these numbers? Auto transport ITT

You assume a full load
You may want to visit with Brickman or the bar hopping Fish boy about the car hauling gig

 

My friends all tell me the truck has to be paid first. Fuel, insurance, road taxes, improvements, tolls, accountant fees, food, telephone, wi/fi, depreciation, maintainence, income tax, truck payment, liscenses, etc... adfunitum and on and on! Looks to me as tho your .20 per mile is way to low; your .50 /ml for fuel+ the .20 is only .70/ml. I know 4 O/O well that all tell me their cost per mile is 1.05 to 1.25. The driver only gets paid what's left and you'll definately want to get several thousand in a business safety fund for the unknown expenses that Will pop up when you least expect them; somebody hits you in a parking lot, hail storm whatever. BEST OF LUCK TO YA!!!
my2cents

 

I sure would like to see some of that .20 per mile.
I don't know anything about car hauling or regular freight so I will shut up and go sit in the corner

 

He's talking about putting back .20 cpm for a maintinence fund. Sounds like more than enough assuming the truck is good to go.

 

See my earlier post...I don't think you .20 is near enough to show your costs.

 

First off I doubt you will ever see 6 miles to the gallon with a 10 car hauler,....4.5 is pretty much average,..5.5 mpg is doing quite well and very hard to achieve unless your running empty a lot,.....

Secondly a full load with a one stop load and one stop unload is rare,....Usually lot's of extra miles to make extra stops,......

Thirdly,...$300 dollars a car from San Fran to Dallas?????,........That works out to about 1.50 a mile,....Not near enough to keep a car hauler on the road,...

Fourth,....Chances are your gonna be looking at $15,000 a year or more just for insurance,......

I see in your sig line that yous work for Sysco,.....Why leave a good job to risk losing it all to haul cars?????,..........

Just asking,...........

Oh,......I did lose everything trying to make a go of it hauling cars,....When it was going good I made more money than I thought possible,....When it went bad....It went bad very fast,....

 

Mine is 11'6" at the stacks,....But it has short stacks,...Pica are in my profile,........