Estimate Cost for Grading and Compacting Class 5 Base

isn't the answer okay I got my butt burned one of my estimators did a manard Superstore and he forgot to convert cubic yards to metric tons and I lost tens of thousands of dollars on that job because of that so don't have this mistake happen to you there's one more step guys and gals you take that 40833 and you multiply it by 13 I don't know five six s it doesn't make a difference that converts it to metric tons okay in this case uh I come up with 5 551 metric tons on my calculator here in The Proposal I have 561 so when I did the math earlier I probably multiplied it by 1.36 or 1.37 it doesn't matter but you almost have a third increase from a cubic yard to a cubic ton and you can see where 408 cubic yards if you purchased if you put that in and mistakenly went to the pit to buy that that would convert to 561 tons and that would be a huge deficit for you guys okay so now in this case let's calculate how much that material is going to cost us we know we got 561 tons hey one thing I want to be I want to show you too on this before I get ahead of it 561 tons if you pause this and look carefully you can see we're covered again we're not importing 562 tons we're not importing 600 tons we're not saying we are going to import class 5 and create a base for the parking lot we're not saying that what we are saying very clearly is we are importing 561 tons of recycled class 5 based material we are safe there is no fear in that number there's only a cushion for me to make money because if I come up and I can and if I'm able to uh class five that parking lot for 540 tons or 530 tons I'm still charging them for 561 tons that's my maximum amount and that charge is $785 so what we're going to do$ 7,854 divided by $561 we're charging $14 a ton for class 5 how we break that down is the material itself costs I think it's like $77.50 for the class five plus tax so probably a little over $8 per ton so let's just call it $8 per ton so $6 per ton is what it cost me to get it to the site now in this case I'm importing it with my own trucks so I'm putting that $6 a ton in my pocket for labor and fuel it's not really total profit but there is profit built into it for me now if you were hiring a trucking company to bring this in you might want to raise your price a little bit because you want to make money on every component of the job you don't want to make money just here and have nothing over here everything on this job you're C you're doing the the calculations you're making…