The Arkansas Owner’s BriefWinter Outlook

What’s inside

Five costs, worked out in dollars, with what I’d do about each.

• Fuel

  Why drive time costs more than diesel, and what one less second trip a day is worth.

• Materials

  The price book nobody updated, and why every quote needs a date.

• Equipment

  Keep it or replace it: running the numbers before it breaks.

• Interest rates

  Your slow-month gap, and why collecting faster beats borrowing.

• Your customers

  What a slipping win rate costs, and how to work the quotes you have.

• One shop, the whole winter

  A worked example of what this winter costs a six-truck shop, and the order I’d fix it in.