How does HaulProfit calculate if a load is profitable?

HaulProfit compares the load's rate per mile against your true cost per mile, which includes fuel, truck payment, insurance, maintenance, permits, and driver pay. If the rate exceeds your costs plus profit margin, you get green. If it covers variable costs but not fixed, you get yellow. If it loses money, you get red.

What is break-even RPM?

Break-even RPM (Rate Per Mile) is the minimum rate you need to cover all your operating costs. It's calculated from your true cost per mile including fuel, payments, insurance, maintenance, and other expenses. Any load paying below this rate loses you money.

How do service partners use HaulProfit?

Service partners provide HaulProfit free to their trucking clients. This helps clients make profitable decisions, survive their first year, and become long-term customers. Partners can white-label the platform with their branding.

Does HaulProfit work on load boards?

Yes. Our desktop app adds profitability badges directly into the major load boards you already use. You see green/yellow/red indicators next to each load without leaving the board.

What types of partners can use HaulProfit?

HaulProfit partners include service partners, fuel card providers, insurers, ELD providers, freight brokerages, and trucking associations. Any organization serving owner-operators can white-label HaulProfit as a value-add for their trucking clients.

What data products does HaulProfit offer?

HaulProfit offers trucking intelligence products including route profitability indexes, lane analytics, cost-per-mile benchmarks, and market signals for the US-Mexico-Canada corridor. Data is available via API or bulk licensing for freight platforms, insurers, and financial services.

How does HaulProfit data licensing work?

Data buyers can license HaulProfit's Intelligence Network data through APIs or bulk feeds. Products include cross-border lane profitability indexes, regional cost benchmarks, and freight market signals. Custom packages are available based on geography, data type, and volume.

What is the HaulProfit Intelligence Network?

The Intelligence Network aggregates anonymized cost and profitability data from thousands of owner-operators across the US-Mexico-Canada corridor. It powers lane-level market intelligence, cost benchmarks, and predictive freight signals used by partners and data buyers.

Free load profit calculator — will this load pay?

To know if a load is worth it, subtract your total cost of running the miles from the rate. This free calculator does it in seconds: enter the rate, loaded miles, and deadhead, adjust fuel price, MPG, and per-mile costs, and get net profit, rate per mile, and a clear profitable / break-even / losing verdict. It uses conservative industry-average defaults and 5 of the 25 cost factors the full HaulProfit engine models — no signup required.

How do I calculate profit on a load?

Profit on a load is the rate minus the full cost of running every mile — loaded and empty. Start with fuel: total miles divided by your MPG, times the price per gallon. Add per-mile wear costs like maintenance and tires, then the fixed overhead (truck payment, insurance, permits) that accrues on every mile whether you like it or not. If the rate clears that total with room to spare, the load pays; if not, a big-looking rate is just expensive driving.

Deadhead is the step most drivers skip. Empty miles to the pickup burn the same fuel and wear as loaded miles and pay nothing, so a load with 120 extra deadhead miles can pay less than one with a lower rate and a close pickup.

What does the free calculator include — and leave out?

This lite calculator uses 5 of the 25 cost factors HaulProfit models: fuel price, your truck's MPG, deadhead miles, maintenance and tires per mile, and fixed overhead per mile. The defaults are conservative industry-research averages, so the estimate is honest rather than optimistic.

The full HaulProfit engine adds the other 20 factors — insurance, truck and trailer payments, tolls on the actual lane, driver pay, factoring and dispatch fees, permits, live diesel prices, weather- and terrain-adjusted fuel burn (real route elevation profiles priced at each region's diesel price), and more — plus deadhead computed from your real location across a 376,000+ city database. That is why your real number is usually different from any free estimate.

What is a good rate per mile?

There is no universal good rate — only a rate above YOUR break-even. Break-even RPM is your total cost for the load divided by the loaded miles: below it you lose money, at it you work for free, above it you profit. Most owner-operators land somewhere between

.60 and $2.20 per mile in all-in costs, which is why a $2.00 load can be great for one truck and a loser for another.

Frequently asked questions

How do I know if a load is worth it?

Compare the rate to your total cost of running the miles — fuel, maintenance, fixed overhead, and the empty miles to the pickup. If net profit is positive with a real margin, it's worth it. This free calculator gives you that verdict in seconds with no signup.

Why is my real profit different from this estimate?

The free calculator uses 5 cost factors and industry-average defaults. Your real number depends on all 25 — your insurance, truck payment, tolls on the lane, driver pay, factoring fees, terrain- and weather-adjusted fuel burn, and the actual deadhead from where your truck sits. The full HaulProfit engine models all of them.

Do deadhead miles really change whether a load pays?

Yes. Empty miles burn the same fuel and wear as loaded miles and pay nothing. A load that pays $200 more can net less once you count 120 extra deadhead miles to its pickup.

Is this load profit calculator really free?

Yes — no account, no email, no credit card. It runs entirely in your browser. If you want your real number with all 25 cost factors and live fuel prices, that's what the full HaulProfit product does.