Per-Truck P&L
Profit and loss tracked by vehicle so you know exactly which truck earns its keep and which one quietly bleeds your junk removal business dry every month.
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Per-Truck P&L
Per-Truck P&L is a separate income statement for each vehicle in your fleet showing revenue, direct costs, and net profit individually.
What it means
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Operator impact
Adding a fourth truck when your third truck is not yet profitable is the fastest way to scale yourself into bankruptcy. Per-truck P&L gives you the proof to expand confidently or the warning to hold back.
Common mistakes
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You need per-truck P&L as soon as you operate two or more trucks. With a single vehicle, your company P&L and truck P&L are identical. The moment you add a second truck, revenue and costs blend together in a company-level report and you lose visibility into which unit actually earns money. Most operators who wait until three or four trucks to start tracking per vehicle discover they have been subsidizing a money-losing unit for months.
A healthy per-truck monthly revenue is $12,000 to $20,000 for residential junk removal in most U.S. metro markets. Below $10,000 per month typically means the truck is not completing enough jobs — usually four to six per day — to cover its fixed and variable costs. Top-performing trucks in high-density markets like Dallas, Atlanta, or Denver regularly hit $22,000 or more by running tight routes and maintaining a $400-plus average ticket.
You track per-truck P&L by assigning every job, dump fee, fuel receipt, and maintenance expense to a specific vehicle unit number. ScaleYourJunk's Growth plan at $299 per month does this automatically — each completed job tags revenue and costs to the truck, and the dashboard generates monthly per-vehicle profit reports. Without software, operators use spreadsheets, but manual entry errors typically corrupt the data within two to three weeks.
Include every cost that is directly caused by or assigned to a specific truck. This means fuel, dump and transfer fees, crew labor hours, the monthly loan or lease payment, commercial auto insurance, maintenance, repairs, registration, and DOT compliance expenses. Do not include shared overhead like office rent, marketing spend, or software subscriptions — those belong on your company-level P&L. The goal is to see what each truck truly costs to operate versus what it earns.
Target a net per-truck profit margin of 30 to 42 percent for residential junk removal work. Gross margin per truck — revenue minus variable costs only — should sit between 50 and 62 percent. If a truck's net margin drops below 20 percent for two consecutive months, investigate the crew's efficiency, routing density, and average ticket size before the problem compounds. Commercial and construction debris trucks typically run tighter at 22 to 32 percent net due to heavier dump fees.
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ScaleYourJunk Growth plan tracks revenue, costs, and profit per vehicle — the data you need to run a fleet.