EWP Income Potential Calculator
Buying a truck-mounted EWP to hire out — a cherry picker, bucket truck or travel tower — only stacks up if the work it wins covers what it costs to run. This calculator helps owner-operators and businesses model that before they commit. You supply your own assumptions: the day rate you expect to charge, how many billable days a month you realistically expect, your monthly running costs and your monthly finance repayment.
From there it works out gross revenue for the month and year, the net left before tax, and the number of billable days a month you'd need just to break even. Every figure comes from your own inputs — there are no assumed rates or utilisation numbers baked in, because those depend entirely on your market and your machine. Treat the result as a way to pressure-test your own plan, not an earnings promise or business advice. When you're ready to look at a machine, call 0416 689 689.
Enter Your Assumptions
The day rate you expect to invoice customers — set it from your own market, not a guess supplied here.
Days you realistically expect to have invoiced work — not the number of days you own the machine.
Fuel, insurance, registration, servicing, inspections, storage and admin.
Leave blank if the machine is owned outright.
Enter a day rate and expected billable days to see the income model.
How This Works & Assumptions
The arithmetic is straightforward. Monthly gross revenue is your day rate multiplied by the billable days you expect in a month, and the annual figure is simply that times twelve. Monthly costs are your running costs plus your finance repayment. Net before tax is revenue minus those costs. Break-even is the number of billable days a month at which revenue exactly matches costs — below it you're going backwards, above it you're ahead.
Assumptions: "billable days" means days actually invoiced, not days you own the machine — quiet weeks, weather, travel and maintenance all eat into it, so be conservative. Running costs should capture fuel, insurance, registration, servicing, inspections, storage and your own admin time. The result is before tax, GST and any wages you draw, and it takes no view on demand in your area. There are no assumed rates or utilisation figures here; the machine market and your workload are yours to estimate.
This tool is built entirely from your own assumptions and is a planning aid, not an earnings promise, a forecast or business advice. As an independent EWP sales and inspection specialist we can help you assess a specific machine, but a decision to buy a truck for hire is yours to make with your own accountant. Call 0416 689 689 for a hand.
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