Split one dump ticket across the jobs that filled the truck
A truck that picks up three jobs and dumps once comes back with one ticket. Charged to the last job, it makes that job look like a loss and the first two look better than they were. Left on nobody, it vanishes from every job’s cost.
Enter the ticket and what the fill gauge read after each job was loaded. Each job pays for the part of the box it filled.
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How it’s worked out
- Each job’s share is what it added to the box: the reading after it was loaded, minus the highest reading before it. A reading lower than the one before it (the load settled, or someone guessed) adds nothing.
- The shares are split in cents, and the last job takes the rounding, so the shares always add up to the ticket exactly.
- Enter the box size and it also works out what disposal cost you per yard on this run, and what a full box would have cost at the same gate — the number to check your per-load prices against.
- This is the same split RelayPoint makes when a driver logs the empty truck: by the fill readings taken at each stop.
Questions
Why not split it evenly?
Because a quarter-load and a half-load did not cost the same to dump. An even split makes small jobs look expensive and big ones look cheap, which is how a price list drifts wrong without anyone noticing.
What if the gate charges by weight?
The share of the box is still the fairest split you can make without weighing each load separately. If one job was much heavier for its size — concrete, shingles, wet brush — adjust its reading up and say why on the job.
What about a credit, like scrap metal paid by the pound?
That is money back, not a fee. Keep it apart from the dump ticket so it doesn’t shrink every job’s disposal cost.