![]() That was a 3 percent increase over the previous year. ![]() It found the average marginal cost per mile was $1.68 per mile in 2013. It is derived directly from carriers’ financial and operational data and provides a vital benchmarking tool for both carriers and shippers. The ATRI study, “Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking,” has been tracking truckers’ costs annually since 2008. Plus, we’re hit with rising health care costs for our people.” Tires, insurance, terminal costs have all risen substantially. A new Class 8 truck costs about $135,000. “The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. “Mike” Shevell, chairman of the Shevell Group, Elizabeth, N.J., parent company of New England Motor Freight, the nation’s 18th-largest LTL carrier expected to do approximately $400 million in revenue this year. ![]() “Everything is up-I mean everything,” says Myron P. In fact, they are rising.Ī new report by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), an arm of the American Trucking Associations, confirms what most trucking executives have been saying publicly for years: trucking costs are rising, with some components increasingly sharply. Shippers negotiating with carriers over 2015 freight rates ought not be swayed by the dramatic lowering of diesel fuel costs into believing their carriers’ overall cost of doing business are lessening.
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