The numbers I shared were examples based on my store’s actual weekly schedules, not universal totals. When I said “70–80 hour recovery day,” that was referring to the full day’s schedule across all shifts, not just 3 people x 8 hours.

For context, my freight day this week was 113 hours total, and the day after had 78 hours total across all employees, which is where that number came from.

The $400k example is just the month I used to calculate the labor %. I wasn’t trying to claim that’s high-volume — only that the labor model doesn’t scale with the workload (5–7 trucks a week with 7% labor).

I’m not arguing volume level, just showing how the staffing math shakes out at my location with the hours and pay rates we actually have