What it actually costs
"There's been numerous times I've been shut down because I had no clue until I was too far into the trip to alter the route and got shut down sometimes with no where to park!" Bill, on the part nobody builds for
The book is out
Know your numbers.
Now a book.
Rules of the Road in Trucking: Know Your Numbers, by Wild Bill Ihrie with Michael Polzin. The arithmetic Bill kept by hand for more than twenty years, in twelve chapters. On Amazon, with a workbook to go with it.
There is also an App Preregistration Edition of the same book. The format sets the months of app access: Kindle 1, paperback 6, hardcover 12. The app is not built yet and preregistration is not refundable. The books page says exactly what you are buying before you buy.
So what is this, actually
Not another dashboard.
A check before you say yes.
A cost per mile number on its own is free almost everywhere. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association gives one out for free. The number is not the hard part. Knowing it at the moment a broker is on the phone is the hard part.
What you can do right now
Four things that actually work today.
No account, no cost, nothing to install. Nothing you type leaves your device unless you choose to send it, and there are no paid third party services behind any of it.
Your cost floor, on the dash
The cost per mile worksheet, drawn as a truck glass cockpit, a gauge whose redline is your own floor, and a check for whether a load clears it before you take it. Every step of the arithmetic is on screen, worked out on your device.
Open the cockpitThe plain worksheet
The same math with no frills, the arithmetic Bill did by hand for twenty years, done for you. Put in your own figures and every step is shown. If the number stings, that is the number.
Open the worksheetAll the ways to reach him
Get on the list, follow along, call in an idea, or report something you saw on the road. You pick how much you share, and several of the ways take no contact details at all.
See all the waysA few ways to check a number
Short exercises about how a number is put together and how to tell a solid one from a shaky one, including your own cost per mile. No score, no timer, nothing saved. Just a couple of minutes and a green traveler asking the questions.
Try oneStraight with you about what is built
Working today, on sale today, and what is not.
The floor of Bill is be the signal, not the noise. So here is the unglamorous version, in plain order.