[slowmover]

$5-7000/month lease is impressive. Those wanting to drive one best be prepared to run team.

Teams do 5000-miles/wk with drop & hook (Fed-Ex). Never any waits to load or unload. In the gate and back out again. Turn and burn. HOS rules being what they are they'll be back at the home terminal to do their 34-HR reset on weekends.

More miles could be run, but it's unlikely without a system as well managed as the one described. 250k miles per truck per year is a fairly safe bet.

At 750k a truck has lost a huge chunk of reliability. Now prone to all sorts of little evils. Even solo drivers running from home terminal in older trucks can't be forced into roadside downtime as contracts won't allow it.

Other business models running fewer miles mAy not be under same performance pressure. But that lease cost is gigantic.