The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is fresh ut with its annual study on what it costs a carrier to run a truck. The new report is based on 2020 carrier data, so it's a little dated, but as always provides an interesting snapshot.

The chart below shows the percentage breakdown across all the cost buckets:

As can be seen, driver wage and benefits together represent 44% of operating costs. What is a bit surprising is that that that percentage hasn't hardly changed since 2015, when it was at 40%. With supposedly rising driver pay, we would have thought the percentage would be growing?

Total operating cost per mile, from elswhere in the report? $1.64 in 2020, a number sure to head up in 2021 with rising diesel costs.

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