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Operating Costs for Trucks
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@MISC{Levinson_operatingcosts,
author = {David Levinson and Michael Corbett and Maryam Hashami and David Levinson},
title = {Operating Costs for Trucks},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This study estimates the operating costs for commercial vehicle operators in Minnesota. A survey of firms that undertake commercial truck road movements was performed. The average operating cost per kilometer for commercial vehicle operators was calculated from the survey responses. Results show that the translog and Cobb-Douglas models have approximately equal explanatory power in estimating the total cost from the data. The models also revealed the presence of nearly constant returns to scale, a finding consistent with earlier studies; an increase in output (total truckloads) of 1 % increases total costs by 1.04%.
