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Free calculators for owner-operators.

Find your cost floor, compare an offer, or plan your first year. Three free calculators and a practical startup guide—no account or card needed. Sample assumptions are explained on each calculator.

Know your floorCost per mile calculatorTurn your fixed bills, monthly miles, diesel price, and MPG into your all-in cost per mile — the floor every load is measured against.Open →Judge the rateRate per mile calculatorCheck a broker's rate across loaded and deadhead miles against your cost, and get a take / counter / pass verdict instead of plain division.Open →Is it worth it?Load profit calculatorAnswer “is this load worth it?” — enter the offer and miles and see your estimated profit before you say yes.Open →Just starting outNew owner-operator cost guidePlan first-year costs before you buy a truck: authority fees, new-authority insurance, the gross-vs-net trap, and your cost per mile.Open →

Why price every load

The rate is revenue. What you keep is the job.

A load board leads with the biggest number because a big number gets the call — but the rate is revenue, and revenue pays no bills. What you keep is the rate minus everything the run costs: fuel at this week’s diesel, your share of the fixed bills, a maintenance reserve, tolls, and any factoring or dispatch fee, spread across loaded and empty miles. Two loads with the same rate per mile can keep very different money once deadhead and your real cost per mile are in the math.

That’s what these tools are for: get your cost per mile to the penny, then run any offer through the load profit or rate per mile check before you answer the broker. New to your own authority? Start with the first-year cost guide.

Straight answers

Questions about the tools.

Are these trucking calculators really free?

Yes. Every calculator on this page runs right in your browser with no account, no email, and no card. They use illustrative assumptions. The cost-per-mile calculator lets you edit the cost inputs; the rate and load calculators use fixed sample costs. When you want the math on your own truck and real loads, a 14-day solo trial starts with your first successful full check.

Which calculator should I start with?

Start with the cost per mile calculator — your cost per mile is the number every other decision depends on. Once you know your floor, the rate per mile and load profit calculators check specific offers against it. If you're not on the road yet, the new owner-operator cost guide walks through what the first year really costs.

How accurate are the numbers?

The cost-per-mile calculator starts with editable sample inputs. The rate-per-mile and load-profit calculators use fixed illustrative costs, including $5.10/gal diesel and 7.5 MPG. These are not live market averages. A full Backhaul check uses your truck profile and available route, fuel and rate context.

Run the real math on your own truck.

The calculators start with clearly labeled sample costs. Backhaul uses your numbers — your bills, this week’s diesel, the real route with tolls, deadhead, and the broker’s FMCSA record — then follows the load from decision to delivery to getting paid.

Check a load freeSee a full sample check

14-day solo trial · No card upfront · No automatic charge