Free tools and practical freight intelligence for owner-operators and small carriers. Evaluate load profitability against your actual truck debt, insurance, and diesel burn.
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Evaluate spot load revenue against your actual monthly fixed debt, equipment insurance, real-time diesel price, and broker percentage fees.
Calculate your actual fixed overhead and rolling variable cost per mile based on your power unit debt, insurance, and monthly miles.
Find the exact all-mile RPM needed to cover operating expenses and business fees with zero out-of-pocket loss on any lane.
See how unpaid repositioning miles erode top-line revenue and determine whether taking a local reload beats a long empty run.
Test a proposed freight load against your actual truck costs. Save your operating assumptions locally without registration.
Stored privately in your browser. These numbers determine your baseline Cost Per Mile.
Compare 3 candidate freight loads evaluated against the identical carrier expense profile. Use neutral numbers to pick the load that best fits your weekly route, schedule, and revenue goals.
| Operational Metric | Load A | Load B | Load C |
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1. Fixed Cost Per Mile Allocation: $\text{Fixed CPM} = \frac{\text{Monthly Fixed Expenses}}{\text{Expected Monthly Miles}}$. Fixed costs (truck payment, insurance, plates, ELD) are allocated proportionally to the trip's total miles ($M_{\text{total}} = \text{Loaded} + \text{Deadhead}$).
2. Fuel Consumption & Cost: $\text{Gallons} = \frac{M_{\text{total}}}{\text{Truck MPG}}$. $\text{Fuel Cost} = \text{Gallons} \times \text{Effective Diesel Price}$.
3. Business Fees: Dispatch and factoring fees are calculated as direct percentages of Offered Gross Revenue.
4. Total Operating Cost: $\text{Total Cost} = \text{Fixed Allocation} + \text{Fuel} + \text{Maintenance} + \text{Tires} + \text{Trip Expenses (Tolls/Lumper)} + \text{Percentage Fees}$.
5. Break-Even Revenue Formula: To account for percentage business fees (e.g. dispatch + factoring) that increase as gross revenue rises, break-even gross revenue is solved algebraically: $\text{Rev}_{\text{be}} = \frac{\text{Direct Costs}}{1 - \text{Total Percentage Fee Rate}}$.
Important Operational Notice: Estimated based on the operating assumptions and expense figures you entered. This tool provides estimates for operational planning. Actual carrier costs, fuel efficiency, weather/traffic delays, detention, repairs, and market conditions may differ. This tool does not constitute financial, legal, tax, or regulatory compliance advice.
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