Is it safe to say that an owner of a D unit straight truck with contracted drivers (team) and a 60 driver/40 owner split will net around $25,000 per year after expenses? I have heard that with a single driver an owner will be lucky to break even, is that true? Any help would be appreciated.
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Broompilot
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Go to General Forum, read RaceMans post below his is my respond. You will be lucky at best to break even and will probably loose $ if there is a payment involved.
Save yourself the aggrivation, sell the truck. I will not deny I am in the black, its alot of responsibility, book keeping, etc...
Save yourself the aggrivation, sell the truck. I will not deny I am in the black, its alot of responsibility, book keeping, etc...
If you always have teams running the truck and If they maintain an 80% availability rate and If the truck is reliable and has no major repairs and If the truck payment is low/zero and If the team runs smart to stay in good zones 9x% of the time and If Murphy doesn't like you excessively then I'd say yes you could net a couple grand a month after expenses but note there are a lot of Ifs in there. If the truck winds up running with a solo operator then Bp's observations will be pretty accurate and it will buy you a nice steak dinner every month or you'll owe the truck a nice steak dinner every month; in other words pretty much break even.
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