Turn your monthly operating expenses into a practical break-even cost per mile before you book a load.
Enter monthly miles and the expenses you choose to include. This is an estimate, not a quoted load rate.
Your total monthly operating expenses divided by monthly miles. It is the starting point for knowing what a load must cover.
Truck payment, insurance, permits, and ELD costs stay relatively steady even when monthly miles change.
Fuel, maintenance, driver pay, tolls, and other running expenses vary more directly with the work you run.
Add the operating expenses you want to include for a month and divide by the miles driven that month.
Common costs include truck payment, insurance, permits, maintenance, driver pay, fuel, tolls, and other expenses specific to your operation.
No. Cost per mile is what it costs to operate the truck. Rate per mile is the revenue paid for a particular load.