What downtime is costing you
The number that decides whether a mobile call-out at 2am is expensive or cheap. Most operators underestimate it because they only count the revenue and forget the payments that keep coming due while the truck sits.
Sets starting figures. Overwrite them with your own — yours are better than ours.
Gross linehaul, not profit.
Truck payment, insurance, permits, ELD, parking. These do not stop.
Detention pay, layover, or a company driver's guarantee. Zero if owner-operated.
Including any load you had to turn down while sitting.
Cost of 2 days down
$2,320
$1,160 per day · $48 per hour, around the clock.
- Lost revenue
- $1,800
- Fixed costs still accruing
- $520
- Total
- $2,320
Anything that gets the truck rolling more than $1,160 sooner pays for itself — that is the real comparison when a mobile tech quotes a premium over waiting for a shop bay.
What this assumes
- Fixed costs — truck payment, insurance, permits, ELD, parking — accrue whether the truck moves or not, so they are counted in full for every down day.
- Driver pay is counted only if you keep paying a driver who is not driving. Set it to zero if you do not.
- Lost revenue is your figure, not ours: revenue per day minus the variable costs you avoid by not running (fuel, tolls, tires, per-mile maintenance).
- A dropped or refused load has a cost beyond the load itself — a broker relationship, a dedicated lane, a customer. That is not modelled. Add it yourself.
- Nothing here comes from our receipt dataset. These are your numbers arranged, not our measurements.
Estimates, not quotes. How we build our numbers.