The Alanine-glucose cycle describes the release of alanine from the muscle into the blood and the usage of alanine in the liver for gluconeogenesis. [Alanine is formed in muscle using pyruvate and in the liver, alanine is used to form pyruvate] Lactate in the blood is taken up by the liver and the heart.
$1.38 The average per mile operating cost for the trucking industry. $180,000 The average total yearly cost of operating a commercial truck. The largest operating expense is diesel fuel. A commercial truck can easily consume more than $70,000 of diesel fuel per year.
We reduced miles driven from 20,000/year to 5,000 on the big vehicle and purchased a small used economy pickup for day-to-day use. We drove the smaller vehicle 15,000 miles/year. Cost per mile driven on the one-ton rose to an amazing $1.36/mile.Cost per mile driven on the smaller used vehicle was 34Â¢. Total cost of maintaining both vehicles amounted to $11,888/year. The total cost of maintaining the one-ton vehicle only and running it 20,000 miles amounted to $13,352/year.This favors maintaining two vehicles as described above by a mere $1,464/year, a smaller amount than one would expect. As the price of fuel increases past $4/gal.hey used actual costs of operating their personal one-ton diesel truck vehicles (Table 1). Assuming your costs of operation are similar to those incurred on the researchersâ vehicles, the cost per mile will approach 70Â¢.