Machinery
Please consider cost of repairs and Fuel cost.
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Curious how these trucking numbers look today? Figuring they have to be higher.
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have and 05 KW and an 07 KW we have put a half million miles on the 07 and I have every expense right down to an air freshener tracked it has cost me $.31/mile over those half million miles that includes EVERYTHING spent on that truck. But not operator at $.40/mile and Fuel at $.45/mile so that is $1.16/ mile that is $.0012 per bushel per mile
this does not include depreciation
Now the 0...
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$60 an hour is our best guesstimate
Kinda need to know the conditions of the roadways you're traveling ( steep, rough, gravel, pavement etc.) My cost this year for my route was atrocious cause it was a 45 mile trip to the elevator and the roads destroyed my trucks and trailers. Constantly had 1-2 trucks or trailers down in the shop through harvest.
.003 cents per bushel per mile. Hiring it done. Trucking is a waste of my time.
anything under 10 miles we do by the hour 82.50
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Were 8-9 cents a bushel of wheat but that's from field to elevator cost. Never broke it down to per mile.
I usually figure $.002/bu/mi.
If I'm paying depreciation/insurance/registration ect... I'm paying it whether the truck is in the field for harvest, sitting in the yard or on the road. (Acknowledging depreciation should be split into age versus mileage.) We don't pay any labor other than salaries, so my labor cost is the same regardless, it's more about opportunity cost. If we're in the field or ...
Travel time I use $0.003/bu - loaded mi based on ~ 250k/truck/year
Add $0.02 - $0.06/bu per load depending on load/unload times. At minimum cover fixed costs. Add labor for additional time.
8 hrs = 14 loads per day=28 miles thats 3,640,000 bushels working every week 5 days for that mile 8 hours a day i used 35 minute turns loaded/unloaded I used the 15% model breaking the tractor down to 85% and the trailer 15% my guess is the repairs per mile in this model will be considerable low as well
Yearly Gross $88,717.44 Also need to fill out right Depreciation Calculator Truck
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another thing you need to run that many bushels to get the price down there. Less bushels more cost!
spreadsheet didn't transfer nice all in all at these numbers .034
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Based on a 7 year depreciation, and multi-year averages for repair, maintenance, and fuel, I figure $0.005 on corn and $0.006 on beans.
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So it costs $16-$20 a mile? Seems excessive. I am more in the ball park of half a cent per bushel per mile.
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spot on