Grand Rapids, MI | jasonl - 4/21/2009 08:12
You must get pretty poor mileage, I figured it costs me less than $100 to haul 23,000 bu from a quarter 10 miles.
Whoa, I think you need to re-do your math. Or else I will give you all the hauling you could ever ask for at that rate. I will pay you double that, want to put 20 trucks on the road?
Lets go through the math. 23,000bu moving 10 miles. Lets assume 1,000bu on a truck. Thats 23 loads, 10 miles one way=20 round trip (doubt you are getting a back-haul at that distance :-)) so 460 miles total. Now lets assume 6MPG (might be optimistic given the short run) thats 76g of Diesel, at $2.15 a gallon here currently thats $165 for the fuel alone.
Now lets take the labor for the driving portion only, not even figuring loading and unloading time. I would say for that short a run about 30 mins per trip, so 12 hours or so. At $20 per hour thats $240.
So now we are up to $405 and thats just for fuel and labor. We have not yet figured the cost of the actual truck. If you would own it anyway and this would be a slack time, you could argue to just take the marginal portion of depreciation and maintenance. Driving it more is surely going to use brakes/tires/etc. |
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