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traveylin
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Apr 05, 2017

Utilization measure for class a use

When I used to work, I was on the lookout for measures that would compare how well my portion of the business compared with other companies. Purpose was to id topics where we were not in the first quarter of performance and investigate what potential improvements could be made to bring performance. With the class A motorhome I purchased in early 2011, I keep track of the initial purchase cost divided by the number of miles driven which is currently 1.47$ per mile. When ever I get the urge to buy a new one this factor is revealing.
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    Effy
    Explorer II
    Apr 05, 2017
    Struggling with the point of the post. In your job you looked to leverage competitive advantages to yield higher performance (you didn't say if this was tactile performance or fiscal or both by proxy). I think most business models run this way. I am not sure how this correlates to cost of MH ownership by day and it's fluctuation by changing MH's. Nothing cost effective about MH ownership at all. It's all loss mitigation. Buy newer, cost of ownership goes up, primarily due to depreciation. Staying in your current rig, the loss curve flattens out as depreciation declines year over year. But there really is no analysis that can be done on a competitive advantage to yield "more" anything out of an RV sans throwing more money at it, or liquidating. Maybe I missed something.

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