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there's always these costs that creep into our businesses like internet and phones and um advertising costs and uniforms and all these things that we do in our businesses that add up and at the end of the day we have to pay that before we calculate our profit so what the system is telling us here based on the actual budget of this company is our overhead is 739 which makes the break-even cost of doing this mo job 1739 and at the end of the day we're only making 190 in profit from this job and i think it's worth knowing this information at the start of the year or knowing this clearly about your business rather than always wondering why it's not as profitable as it should be so you can imagine if i did a hundred of these properties and i'm only going to make 189 dollars in profit on each one i kind of know what my maximum profit potential is for the year um so it really kind of clarifies your business very quickly on a job-by-job basis when you look at it here within each estimate so this also does you have tracking software like so you route this software can route from one job to the next job this is the estimating software but in the routing do you actually route it beforehand to get the the amount of time that you spend because you're allocating for your truck and that's where a lot of guys go wait a minute why are you allocating for your truck well yeah you gotta allocate for your truck it's not free at her i mean i i've never been given one yet not tried yeah no you're uh you're completely right there so we do like to quote our projects with the labor and the equipment and the reason for that is twofold first off we want to make sure that we cover all those costs and that we're charging the customer enough money to recover those costs but then when we track the cruise and track what's happening it's really important also that we know what components were put into each job so that we can assess the profitability and that that's called job costing and what our system does is as you track the work through the routing and time keeping software that you referred to that's all app based of course on the phones but as the crew or you if you're an owner operator go through your your route and you do the work each week what's happening is we're tracking how long you're at each property so then what you can do is run reports to see if you're if you're actually getting the work done the way you estimated it and if there's a problem then you can either go back to…