[Dale Wiley]

Your are correct.

I did not figure in maintenance costs, insurance costs and fuel costs.

I know the oil gets changed about 4 times a year, $ 120.00

Air filter 4 times $ 80.00

Insurance is $ 50 per month - $ 600 per year.

Last years repairs were gasp.... $ 100.

Fuel ?? $ 1,000

Total $ 1,900.

So I saved $ 3,000 right of the top. Subtract the cost of maintenance , and I saved $ 1,100. Big deal right ??


Read back and see that I had not quantified the TIME we saved by not traveling to the rental yard.

$ 13,000 in rentals divided by say an average rental of $ 350 means we rented about 37 times.

A round trip to and from the rental store, 12 miles in traffic, average speed 20 mph, ( I track that for fun) runs about 1.5 hours. Saving that time allows us to bill more time, 55.5 hours in this case @ $ 42.00 is $ 2,331 in additional billings for labor alone.

So now I am back ahead $ 3,400. And I feel it is more actually, by that is easily quantified.