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Free calculators for owner-operators.
Four tools that price a truck the way a broker call actually goes — cost per mile, rate per mile, whether a specific load is worth it, and what the first year costs before you buy. Each one runs in your browser on real trucking numbers, with no signup. They’re a free taste of what Backhaul does on your own truck: your real bills, this week’s live diesel, the routed miles, and the broker’s FMCSA record — then it tracks the load to getting paid.
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 stated national-average assumptions you can change. When you want the math on your own truck and real loads, the first 3 full checks are free too.
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 quick calculators use national-average assumptions (a typical owner-operator cost profile and a recent diesel price) so you can see the shape of the math immediately. Your real numbers differ — different truck payment, MPG, insurance, and this week's actual diesel — which is exactly what the full Backhaul app uses when you check a live load.
Run the real math on your own truck.
The calculators use national averages. 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.
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