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Load profit per mile calculator
Score a broker rate against deadhead, fuel, and your own fixed cost per day before you accept the load.
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Free load math for owner operators and small carriers
Run the two numbers that decide whether a load is worth taking: what it nets per total mile, and what it costs you in hours on the fourteen and the seventy.
Both calculators are free, take no signup, and run in your browser on a phone at the fuel island. They use the same model that sits inside DeadheadMath, just without the stored cost profile, the settlement matching, and the lane history that come with an account.
Change the defaults to your truck. The diesel price should be what you actually pay at your usual stops, not the national average. The MPG should be the number your last six fuel ups gave you, not the number the salesman quoted. Fixed cost per day should be your real bills divided by the days you really work, which for most single truck operations is closer to 250 days a year than 300.
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Trip clock planner for hours of service
See how many days a load really takes and what it leaves on your seventy hour clock before you agree to the appointment.
Working document
The break-even rate per mile worksheet
Fill in four short sections and you finish with the single number you should never book freight below.
Why the load math here is open to anyone with a truck
Owner operators already run this arithmetic by hand every day, usually on the back of a rate confirmation with a pen at the fuel island. Rate divided by loaded miles, a rough guess at what the trip will burn at whatever the pump says this week, and a hope that the 130 empty miles to the shipper will not matter much. That math is not proprietary and it should not sit behind a signup form, so both calculators run in the browser with nothing to create and nothing to confirm.
On their own they are worth keeping bookmarked on the phone. One gives you net per total mile with the reposition leg counted and fuel charged at your real MPG, which is the figure that decides whether a load pays your truck note or just moves it. The other turns miles into driving days and shows what is left of the seventy hour clock at delivery, before you promise an appointment you cannot legally make. What an account adds is memory: fixed cost per day stored instead of retyped, settlements matched back to what you quoted, and lane history that tells you what Joliet to Laredo has really paid across eight runs.
The verdict is worth more when it is remembered
A free calculator scores one load and forgets it the second you close the tab. DeadheadMath holds that score, compares it to the settlement when it finally lands, and stacks the results by lane so you learn which markets keep sending your truck home empty. Ask for a demo and we will set up your fixed cost per day on the call.