Project Accounting. Costpoint was designed to meet the needs of government contractors for accounting. Specifically, government contractors, who have regulations regarding executive compensation, unallowable costs, and requirements of indirect labor that do not effect non-government contractors.
In allowing the longer truck combinations, what would take two 16.5 m (54 ft) semi-trailer trucks and one 18.75 m (62 ft) truck and trailer to haul on the continent now could be handled by just two 25.25 m trucks â greatly reducing overall costs and emissions.
The nationâs 1,508,620 semi-truckers averaged $19.15 per hour or $39,830 per year as of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bottom 10 percent earned under $11.96 per hour or $24,880 per year, while the top 10 percent made over $28.10 per hour or $58,440 per year.