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Post is a little old but, maybe I can help. I ran medium duty truck/lt trailer throughout 22 states and have been in business since 03. Assessing prices what to charge starts with your costs. Direct and indirect. Direct is fuel, maintenance, tolls, road expenses. Miles you cover on average or anticipate to for a job and don't forget deadheading. You start there. ex: cost per mile direct say $.50 what you charge customer for the direct expenses. Your unit not specified what size exactly say cost you $30K and you believe it'll last 3 years or 150,000 miles. Add $.20/mile or $.40/mile if deadheading back. Any other phone, advertising monthly, fees license, hut, and don;t forget to pay yourself. Your actual cost to mile to charge the customer may be around $2-3 per mile to run about break even. If you pick up something on the deadhead add it to your pay, or even discount it so there is something to add. Whatever sells the job. Don't forget that extra may go to a major repair to get to that target life expectancy of your rig. Notate everything you spend and mileage and it'll give you a cost per mile you're driving that may/will change all the time. Add a realistic income for yourself to that and your pricing. If the job offered is 100 miles price your per mile with the expectancy of deadheading. If you don't great you can profit more, if you do you've got it covered without paying to ship someone else's load. Good luck!
Ex: miles/month 10,000
Direct expenses 4,000 -$.40/mile
Indirect expenses 4000 -$.40/mile truck n business costs
Income/profit 2,000 net result +$.20/mile if charging customer $2.00/load mile adapt per truck size
Deadhead miles paid by added jobs say 1,000 increase income by $2.00/mile +$2,000
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