Fuel for Thought

2012 Numbers

Between one full year of working with a quality carrier and no major visits to the shop, 2012 was a good year. Easily my best year in expediting.

I ran 152 loads over a course of 60,000 tasked miles. I don’t differentiate deadhead and loaded miles, because at the end of the day what matters is how much I get paid and how much the van had to work to complete the task regardless of whether we were loaded or empty. The load count averages out to getting a call from dispatch once every two days or almost four times a week while in service, which in my case was 303 days. A bit of perspective for the average of one load every two days is that each time I got a load within a day of delivery that means I had another load that took me three days to nail down. In total I put 85,621 miles on the van.

I spent $15,666 dollars to buy 4016 gallons of fuel which put my average fuel cost at $3.90/gallon. The annual fuel consumption against the van’s odometer miles shows me running at 21.3 mpg for the year.

All other money poured into the van came to a total of $6981. Not bad when in past years just the major repairs equaled $12,000 or $9,000. In the 2012 breakout of maintenance, repairs cost $4,553 and dealership service was $1032. Other notable costs were tires at $838, oil at $474 and fuel additives at $184. The total of all the remaining nickel and dime stuff wouldn’t combine for a total over $300 and isn’t included in my numbers here.

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