So besides the out of pocket trucking expenses, also called ‘soft costs’, you will have to deal with many other bigger expenses that comes along.
The two most obvious trucking expenses that eat up your hard earned dollars are:
- Fuel Costs; (So, if a driver who drives 100,000 miles a year needs about 16,667 gallons of fuel, at the current price per gallon, that driver will spend well over $67,000 in gas. After all, Diesel fuel is not cheap! So maybe the idea of investing into an aerodynamic design of truck is not bad after all!)
- Maintenance and Repairs cost; (I don’t want to sound all skeptical but you can never know how reliable your truck will be. Because of that you should always have some money set aside for repair costs and worst case scenarios).
On the top of the two biggest trucking expenses, if you add up the other expenses like the actual truck price (regardless if is rental/lease or you own it,) then the plates and the permits, taxes, as well as the insurance, you will get the big picture!
