Truck Conversion & Toterhome Community - View Single Post - What is the hourly rate that a manufacturer charges to build a conversion?

BravestDog · 12-19-2008, 02:34 PM

Geoff

Your post should read $200 per square foot x 340 sq ft = $68,000, correct.

You have it at $2000 per square foot which would be $680,000.

Are most conversions 8.5' wide or are they 8' wide?

Is there a certain year where they went to 8.5' wide?

What kind of truck would you get for $70k? Would that be like a new Freightliner Columbia with an automatic transmission and a long frame...?

Then you add the conversion space at $68,000 = approx $140k? Then add profit, say 50% or $70k and you come up with an out the door price of $210K?

12-19-2008, 02:34 PM	#3
BravestDog Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 748	Geoff Your post should read $200 per square foot x 340 sq ft = $68,000, correct. You have it at $2000 per square foot which would be $680,000. Are most conversions 8.5' wide or are they 8' wide? Is there a certain year where they went to 8.5' wide? What kind of truck would you get for $70k? Would that be like a new Freightliner Columbia with an automatic transmission and a long frame...? Then you add the conversion space at $68,000 = approx $140k? Then add profit, say 50% or $70k and you come up with an out the door price of $210K? __________________ "I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety." Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer, Sea and Land, 1874-1922.