A motor carrier is trying to determine its cost to pick up a shipment originating in Hot Springs, AR. The carrier dispatches a truck and trailer from Little Rock to pick up the load in Hot Springs....

Extracted text: A motor carrier is trying to determine its cost to pick up a shipment originating in Hot Springs, AR. The carrier dispatches a truck and trailer from Little Rock to pick up the load in Hot Springs. Little Rock is 50 miles from Hot Springs and the trip takes 1 hour. The driver arrives at the shipper and waits for 2 hours while the trailer is loaded. For this exercise the carrier is only concerned with the cost of driving from the terminal to Hot Springs and picking up the load (i.e., does not care about line-haul and delivery costs). Assume there are 30 days in a month. Use the information provided in the following table to determine how much it cost the carrier to pick up this load from Hot Springs: Equipment Purchase Price Tractor $80,000 (Monthly payment = $1,584) $35,000 (Monthly payment = $406) %3! Trailer %3D Depreciation Tractor 5-year straight line 10-ycar straight line Trailer Interest Tractor 7% APR for 5 years 7% APR for 10 years $5.00/gallon for diesel and the tractor gets 6.5 mpg Trailer Fuel Labor Cost Driver Miscellaneous $0.40 per mile S0.03 per mile SO.15 per mile $1.95 per pick up Insurance cost Maintenance cost Billing cost Depreciation expense cquipment cost/depreciation years/days in a year/hours in a day Interest expense - monthly payment/days in a month/hours in a day Fuel expense fuel cost per gallon/equipment miles per gallon What is the total depreciation expense for this pick-up? What is the total fuel cost for this pick-up? What is the total cost for this pick-up? How much would the carrier need to charge per mile to break-even on this pick-up?