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.

HaulProfit resources — Guides to trucking profitability

The HaulProfit resources hub explains how to actually know whether a load is profitable: how to calculate true cost per mile, why deadhead and tolls quietly sink good-looking rates, how to set a break-even number for your truck, and how to negotiate a higher rate with confidence. The guides are written for working owner-operators and small fleets in plain language, with examples you can apply to the next load you score. Start with cost-per-mile and break-even, then move on to negotiation tactics.

How do I calculate my true cost per mile?

Add your fixed monthly costs (truck payment, insurance, permits) and your variable per-mile costs (fuel, maintenance, tires), then divide across the miles you realistically run. That number is the floor every load has to clear before it earns you anything.

What is a break-even rate and why does it matter?

Your break-even rate is the price at which a load covers its own costs and nothing more. Knowing it turns negotiation into arithmetic: any offer below break-even loses money, and you can counter to a number that actually pays you.

Frequently asked questions

Are the guides free to read?

Yes. The resources hub is free and written for working drivers and small fleets.

Do I need the app to use the guides?

No, but the guides pair naturally with HaulProfit because it does the cost-per-mile and break-even math for you on each load.