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Empty Truck Cost Calculator
A truck without a technician sits in the lot and leaves a hole in the schedule. Every day it is empty, the calls it would have run go to backlog, reschedules, or a competitor. Put in your calls per day, average ticket, and days open. You see what one vacancy puts at risk per day and over the whole search.
Before you start
What you will need. Completed calls per truck per day, Revenue per call, Working days the position sits open, Share of those calls you lose outright
A day on the truck
The vacancy
Revenue at risk per empty-truck day
Where the vacancy revenue goes
The method
What an empty truck costs you
When a technician leaves, the revenue the truck was booked to run does not politely wait for the new hire. Some calls get absorbed by the rest of the board, some get pushed, and some are answered by another shop. This calculator prices the exposure two ways. First, what one day of the empty truck carries. Second, what the whole vacancy loses at your own lose-outright share.
How this is calculated
Revenue at risk per day
Completed calls per day times revenue per call. At the starter figures of 10 calls and a $400 ticket, that is $4,000 of booked work a day. That sits inside the published $2,000 to $7,800 peak-day range. It is a gross figure by design: it is the size of the schedule the truck was carrying.
What the vacancy loses outright
Days open times the daily figure times the share you lose outright. Absorbed calls are not free either: they show up as backlog, longer days for the technicians you still have, and slower response times. The workbook separates the two and prices the absorbed load properly.
Gross versus margin, said plainly
These are revenue figures, not profit. The money you keep depends on labor, parts, and how much of the schedule you fill. The published peak-day range is gross by its own definition, and this page follows it. The in-depth workbook does the margin math with your numbers.
Carry this into the decision
Gross revenue is the headline. Margin is the decision.
The Empty Truck and Turnover Cost Workbook prices one departure, one empty-truck day, and a year of them in margin with your fill assumptions, plus the departure log and reason ranking that tell you what to fix first, in one license.
$34. 30 days. Reply to your receipt or email support@truestephr.com for a full refund. No form or explanation is required, and you keep the files.
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This tool estimates from the figures you enter. It is general information rather than legal, tax, or accounting advice, so check the result against your own records before you rely on it.