Fuel (medium duty cycle,

8 gph, $2.75 per gallon)            $22                                $44,000                          $220,000

Cost of tires

(5,000 hour lifetime)                  $9.60                             $19,200                             $96,000

Repairs and maintenance       $9.00                             $18,000                             $90,000

TOTAL OPERATING COSTS    $60.60                         $121,200                           $606,000

TOTAL O&O COSTS                 $112.78                        $225,560                          $1,127,820*

*Note: due to rounding variances, some columns may not total precisely.

ARTIC A VS. ARTIC B

Small differences in big machines can add up to big dollars, either saved or wasted, depending on how carefully you match your machine to your job. In this comparison, we take two articulated truck fleets. Fleet A has two 43-ton trucks and Fleet B has two 40-ton trucks. In Fleet A, the purchase price of the trucks is $50,000 more per truck, but look what happens to the costs once you put the fleets into the field. Assume 50-cent per ton bid price (or profit) and 2,000 operating hours a year.)

Fleet comparison                   Artic Fleet A Artic                 Fleet B                        Advantage

Price — —                                                                                                                    (B) 50,000

Payload per truck                       43 tons                                40 tons                       (A) 3 tons

Cycle time                                   5 minutes                           6.3 minutes                (A) 5%

Annual payload                       167,084 tons                        83,542 tons                 (A) 83,542 tons

Fuel use                                   8.6 gph per truck             9.1 gph per truck           (A) $5,500 per year