Is this load worth taking? Free, no signup.
Enter the load first: the all-in pay, your loaded miles, and the deadhead miles it takes to get there. Add tolls and lumper or accessorial fees so the pay number is not secretly smaller than it looks. Then set your costs. The cost-per-mile preset buttons start at 1.80, with 2.00 and 2.30 options, and they are editable starting points for everything rolling: fuel, maintenance, and tires. Use your own numbers, not the default, once you know them. Enter the days the load ties up your truck and your fixed cost per day, which means the truck payment, insurance, and permits plus your own pay for that day. Finally set your target profit per mile, 40, 60, or 80 cents, editable like everything else. The breakdown shows total miles, the rate per loaded mile versus per total mile, your distance and time costs, total cost, profit, profit per mile, and profit per day. The verdict is blunt: TAKE IT if you beat your target, BORDERLINE if you are close enough that a good lane setup justifies it, DECLINE if deadhead and costs eat it.
Example only, not typical earnings. Say a broker offers $1,900 all-in for 550 loaded miles with 80 deadhead miles, no tolls, and no lumper fees. Your cost per mile is $1.80, the load ties up your truck for 2 days, your fixed cost is $200 a day, and your target profit is $0.40 a mile. Total miles are 630, so distance cost is 630 times $1.80, or $1,134. Time cost is 2 times $200, or $400. Total cost is $1,534, profit is $366, and profit per mile is $366 over 630, or about $0.58. That beats your $0.40 target by about $0.18 a mile, so the verdict reads TAKE IT. The tool also shows the rate per loaded mile at $3.45 versus only $3.02 per total mile, which is why deadhead matters.
The tool's presets are 40, 60, and 80 cents, and all are editable starting points. Your real target comes from your own cost per mile and what you need the truck to earn; set it once and judge every load against it.
Because you burn fuel, tires, and hours on them too. The rate per loaded mile is what the broker quotes, but the rate per total mile is what you actually drive, and the gap between them is where bad loads hide.
Everything rolling: fuel, maintenance, and tires. The $1.80 default reflects the tool's note that ATRI's 2025 average was about $1.80 a mile all-in. Your truck and your lanes decide your real number, so replace the default once you know it.
Your truck payment, insurance, and permits, plus your own pay for each day the load ties up the truck. A cheap-looking load that eats three days can lose to a pricier one that turns in one.
When the lane sets up your next load. The tool says this in the BORDERLINE verdict itself: a slightly under-target load that deadheads you into a strong market can beat a better-paying load that strands you.