Practical decision-support utilities engineered to calculate true operating cost per mile, all-mile RPM, fuel consumption, and net profit before you commit your truck.
Evaluate proposed spot freight rates against your actual monthly fixed debt, equipment insurance, real-time diesel price, and broker percentage fees. Includes 3-load side-by-side comparison.
Break down fixed costs (truck note, trailer note, bobtail/physical damage insurance) and variable costs (maintenance reserves, tires, DEF, fuel) allocated across expected monthly miles.
Determine the mathematical zero-profit floor on every lane so you never accept freight below your actual cost of turning the wheels.
Discover the real cost of empty repositioning miles. Compare high-rate loads with long deadhead against medium-rate loads with local pickups.
Use your current diesel price, contract baseline, truck MPG, and trip miles to calculate a transparent fuel surcharge estimate.
Project monthly revenue, full fixed expenses, fuel, mileage reserves, percentage fees, effective CPM, and estimated net profit using your saved carrier profile.
Your truck costs, diesel price, MPG and percentage fees are reused automatically. Update your operating profile in the Load Decision Engine, then refresh it here.
See the base cost of moving the truck before revenue-based fees.
Expected monthly miles: —.
Calculate the zero-profit gross and RPM for a proposed mileage pattern.
See what empty miles do to true all-mile rate, cost and estimated profit.
Use your contract's baseline fuel price. APR does not assume a universal surcharge schedule.
Fuel benchmark: $6.179/gal — U.S. EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel (2026-10-12). Enter your contract baseline to calculate a surcharge.
Model a month using your full fixed-cost profile plus actual planned revenue and miles.
Convert a dispatch percentage into dollars before judging the load.
Estimate percentage and flat fees on a freight invoice.
Operational planning only. Calculations use the assumptions saved in your browser and the values entered above. Actual fuel use, repairs, detention, taxes, compliance costs, and other expenses can differ.