The Cost of Trucking. $1.38 The average per mile operating cost for the trucking industry. $180,000 The average total yearly cost of operating a commercial truck. The largest operating expense is diesel fuel. A commercial truck can easily consume more than $70,000 of diesel fuel per year. Driver Salary is the second largest operating cost. Long drive. Calculate how much it costs to drive 150,000 km with an average consumption of 7 liters per 100 km and a fuel price of 1.2 € / l. Two-fifths 2819. The petrol tank is filled to three-quarters of its volume. After running out of 875 liters of gasoline, it was filled to only two-fifths of the volume. For short distance commutes that are less than 1000 km per month, a petrol car will always be cheaper to run, even after 15 years. For a mix of short and long distance drives that result in around 1000 km per month, 10 years is the average time around which a diesel car will become cheaper to run than a petrol car. Results show that with an average road slope of 5 %, 60 km/h speed, the weight of the cargo should be at least 1.32 times the weight of the truck, PMET can be achieved. Fuel consumption by a containership is mostly a function of ship size and cruising speed, which follows an exponential function above 14 knots. For instance, while a containership of around 8,000 TEU would consume about 225 tons of bunker fuel per day at 24 knots. At 21 knots, this consumption drops to about 150 tons per day, a 33% decline. A commonly used formula to estimate fuel consumption is: Fuel Consumption (Liters per 100 km) = Fuel Flow (Liters per hour) x 100 / Distance (km) Fuel flow can be estimated based on engine size, engine efficiency, driving conditions, and other factors. Specific Fuel consumption (at rated power): 0.2259 kg/KWH, KW is the rated Kilowatt of equipment at governed engine rpm, Fuel Specific Weight is specific gravity of fuel (weight of fuel in kg the average passengers per bus is 9.2 (from 5.2 billion vehicle km and 48 billion passenger km) the average CO2 emission for the buses is 822 g / km; the total UK vehicle km by buses is 5.2 billion per year [giving a total CO2 emission of 4.3 million tonnes, i.e. 0.07 tonnes per person per year] Basis for calculations pDFK3.