
How to close a 1.5 MPG fuel gap that costs $20,000 a year
Two owner-operators run the same lane. One burns 80 extra gallons a week. The difference is not the truck.
Insurance, taxes, fuel cards, factoring, IFTA, IRP, lease-purchase math, and the cash-flow side of running 1-to-10 trucks.

Two owner-operators run the same lane. One burns 80 extra gallons a week. The difference is not the truck.

Section 179 and bonus depreciation let you deduct the full purchase price in year one. Here's how that changes the math for a $160,000 truck.

Industrial real estate vacancy is dropping after a year of oversupply. Developers are building smaller, urban warehouses that favor box trucks and sprinters…