I Know My Cost Per Mile to the Penny: Owner Operator Tee

Cost per mile is the owner operator's actual job, and the job is arithmetic rather than driving. Fuel, tires, the truck payment, insurance, permits, the maintenance reserve, all of it divided by every mile run, including the empty ones nobody paid for. A driver who does not know that number is not running a business.

From outside it is a personality joke. People read a man who is tight with money, a budget spreadsheet, somebody who splits a restaurant bill exactly, and they are entirely confident. It is a profit and loss statement.

A calculator drawn from scratch in stipple, one ink, with TO THE PENNY set smallest on the last line. The shrinking is the joke. Gift from the spouse who does the books.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.