"So you need to figure round trip so that has your fuel cost at $1.30 per loaded mile"
Why should I pay for you to dead head home because you do not have enough business to find other loads?????????
Charging $1.50 per mile and giving him 33% would be about .50 per mile to the driver. .50 for a driver is pretty good pay. LTL road drivers only get .50 to .60 per mile and they are some of the highest paid drivers out there.
I was more talking about some guy with a 1 ton and a trailer hauling tractors on the side rather than a semi but lets look at your cost.
Fuel .65 Driver .50 Lic and insurance .10 ($10,500/105000) Tires;oil;repairs .15 ($15,000/105000) Truck and trailer .25 ($180,000/735000) 7yrs @105000 Thats $1.65 Plus 20% for dead head miles comes to 1.98 per mile and that is a semi. If you are dead heading over 20% of the time you need to find a broker to help you find loads.
Fuel sur charge is about 30% right now so charging 1.50 per mile plus the 30% would be right at $1.95 per mile. Pretty close to what I figured before.
Then for someone with a $35000 one ton and gooseneck that gets well over 6mpg to charge 3 or 4 dollars a mile to haul my tractor because a buddy with his semi charges that much is still hwy robbery.
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