well said burb man, just to honest lets not forget about taxes on the gross amount you earned, and now you have less, sorry to those that have trailers sitting on the lot, but they take this job and shove it, soon or later they will be backed up against the wall where they will have to make it profitable for an independent contractor to even think about doing this for a living, I would say the only way to do this is driving some one else's motor home to them, let them eat the mileage and maintenance on their rig, no one that's done the math is going to pull trailers for a living at the $ per mile they have now