Re: AP to Darwin on hold "YET AGAIN"

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:36:11 +1000, "William Miller"
<backtran@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>No, you  must be kidding
>
>I did the calc - it results in $484,000 by my numbers - have I got it right?

No.
4400 trucks per nite each way = total 8800 trucks.
500 litres of fuel per truck = 500 X 8800 = 4.4 Million litres.
Excise of 20 cents per litre = 4.4 million X 0.2 = $880.000.00.

>
>I read somewhere that profit is revenue (which you have) less expenses and
>capital charges - you do not seem to have these? What is the Capex and
>Maintenance on the Hume?

Quite true .
I dont have the individual maintenance costs for the Hume , but the
total annual expenditure for roads in 1998 for both States ,
Territories and the Feds was $7.0 billion.

Total revenue derived from road related charges , taxes and fuel
excise was $13.7 billion.

ie Roads make around $6.3 billion a year in profit.

This info taken from BTE (Bureau Transport Economics) 
Information Sheet No 13 titled
Public related Road Expenditure and Revenue in Australia.

MD