As an operator, and not an owner, it boggles my mind how some companies can make a go of it. Last winter I was loading trucks with snow. We mostly go out at night to avoid the traffic. Our snow dump is less than a mile from the haul sites. We normally run an L90 Volvo loading, an L90 pushing up, and 3 trucks hauling. They charge about 30 bucks a load. We made about 450 bucks an hour on average that night, which I figured was pretty good. The engineer showed me a sheet that broke down the costs for the night. Fuel, wages, overhead, and such. The profit per parking lot that night on average was about 70 bucks. Mind you I wouldn't mind 35 bucks an hour in my pocket, but for a company...wow one breakdown, and there goes your money. Now there is a guy going around offering to haul snow for 20 bucks a load. Our 940, as I had mentioned has been hired on by the hour plowing for the government. They are getting government rate. To date, although we have had a light winter so far, I think I have brought in about 9000 dollars, to which I thought not bad. The shop foreman tells me he has over 7000 dollars in invoices for her. 4000 of that is just putting the wing on, and putting the winter tires (which they already own) on rims. The government is loaning us a one way plow, but the boss wants to buy a new one, almost 13 grand. I will have to do a lot of plowing to pay for that. Glad I am just an operator, not an owner.
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