I keep an Excel spread sheet on truck costs. I have every dime spent on the truck factored in. I also have the intitial cost to purchase and the finance charge. I also have my current value estimate based on what I see in the trade magazines for similar trucks. The bottom line is what my truck costs me to drive. I'm right in line at $.41 per mile.

fuel is the biggest factor with financing and depreciation the next in line.

Tires while a big ticket number are down to $.007

My VP-44 is at $.03 so far.

All other costs hardly even show up on extended cost per mile.

I also have lifetime mpg. which is 19.1 mpg including the few tows that I have done. My mileage of late has been 17.5 in the winter but it hardly affects lifetime now at 185,000 miles. short term mileage is about 17.9 for the winter.

 

BW,
Can you extract your annual cost per mile? I'm curious how the cost changed from new to old. Did your cost stay low when new and get higher with age? Did it rise and fall much over the period?

My sheet is speculative since it considers scheduled maintenance and expected costs for insurance, etc that changes with each driver, but it is intended to compensate employees for use of their vehicle. A big change on mine is the miles/year since it reduces per mile cost on annual expenses. Also, fuel cost is all over the map up here every time you US folks raise the thermostat in your houses or crank up the AC.

TIA
Cya

 

Just the sound of my turbo spooling up is worth that and more.

 

I'll trade insurance...$633.84 every 6 months with multiple policy (Car/House) discount and I have no tickets and no accidents. Total auto for 2 cars in sig is $2234.40 per year.

Welcome to Kalifornia.