TRUCK OPERATION EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT

Abstract

The article considers the issue of truck efficiency based on the cost of freight road transportation. Two groups of component costs are analyzed in detail: 1) which directly depend on the technical characteristics of trucks (costs of fuel, lubricants and other operating materials, costs of wear and tear and restoration of automobile tires; costs of maintenance and repair); 2) which are determined by the organizational features of the functioning of the motor transport enterprise (drivers' wages, deductions for social needs, depreciation of automobile rolling stock and general economic expenses). The general structure of the cost of freight transportation by automobiles is presented as the sum of indicators that make up two groups of costs: 1) which depend on the volume of cargo; 2) which are related to the characteristics of cargo and organizational work on cargo handling. The formulas for determining the first group of costs (conditional and technical costs) are considered in detail and given, since the value of these costs makes it possible: to assess the efficiency of using vehicles in monetary terms; compare the efficiency of different brands and models of cars in monetary terms; choose the most rational fleet of automobile rolling stock; evaluate the efficiency of the operation of automobiles in various motor transport enterprises in monetary terms.

To assess the feasibility of updating the fleet of motor vehicles, it is proposed to use the value of the economic effect, which is defined as the difference in proportionally reduced annual costs.

The purpose of the article is to provide methodological recommendations to motor transport enterprises on determining the components of transport costs and assessing the feasibility of updating the motor transport rolling stock.

Keywords: cost; expenses; efficiency; profit; reliability; truck; cost price.