Price the load before you say yes.

Add up everything the truck costs over a period, such as a month: the truck or lease payment, insurance, permits, maintenance, tires, fuel, driver pay and the office. Divide that total by every mile the truck ran in the same period, loaded and empty. This calculator works out the two costs that change with each load, driver pay and fuel, and the rate per mile for the suggested price. The rest of the price has to cover the fixed costs.

There isn't one right number. Rates move with the lane, the equipment, the length of haul, the time a load takes and how tight the market is. Start from your own cost, then price above it. The calculator starts from the driver pay and fuel for the route, adjusts for how far ahead the pickup is and current truckload market conditions, and shows the result as a total and as a rate per mile. Short runs usually price higher per mile, because the time spent loading and unloading is spread over fewer miles.

It starts with the direct cost of the load: driver pay, however you pay the driver, plus fuel for the road miles at this week's diesel price. Short notice and a tight market push the price up; booking ahead and a soft market bring it down. Refrigerated and flatbed loads are adjusted from dry van using national average spot rates. Loads up to 100 miles have a local minimum, so short runs still cover the driver's time. The market setting is updated weekly. Fuel is included in the suggested price.

It fills in with the latest weekly U.S. average retail price for on-highway diesel from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). If you pay a different price, type yours over it. Fuel per mile is the diesel price divided by your truck's miles per gallon.

Owner-operators can enter their own pay, fuel price and miles per gallon to see what a load costs to run. The suggested price is built for truckload equipment: dry van, refrigerated and flatbed. For box trucks and hotshot, the driver pay and fuel figures still apply, but check the suggested price against the rates you see in your own market.

Yes. Shippers and brokers can use it to see what a load costs a carrier to run in driver pay and fuel, and whether a quote leaves room for the rest of the carrier's costs. It is an estimate, not a quote or an offer.

Tolls, permits, detention, lumper fees and other accessorials are not included, so add them to the price yourself. To count deadhead, start the route where the truck is now, so the empty miles to the pickup are priced with the rest of the trip.

Yes. Set the dwell time at each stop. A drop and hook might take half an hour, while a live load or unload can take two hours or more. When the driver is paid by the hour, or the load is refrigerated, that time adds to the cost and to the suggested price.

It is free, with no account and no sign-up, and it works on a phone. Your settings are saved in your browser for your next visit.

The rate per loaded mile is the price divided by the miles from the pickup on, which is how a customer usually sees it. The per-mile figure for all miles also counts the empty miles from where the truck starts (stop A) to the pickup.

Yes. Under the result, print it or save it as a PDF, or share a link to it. The link carries the miles, stop times and settings, never the addresses, so your lanes stay private.