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Price the load before you say yes.

Enter the driver's pay, today's fuel, and the stops. Get the miles, the drive time, your cost, and the number to bid. Free for anyone in trucking, no account needed.

Freight Pricing Calculator

Cost of the load is time times driver pay plus miles times fuel. The bottom line is twice that. The starting bid is three times that.

U.S. average for the week of Sep 21, 2026: $6.53 a gallon (EIA). Change it if you pay something different.
Loaded average. Fuel per mile: $0.58

Route

Start, two stops, and up to ten more. Miles fill in automatically from the addresses; edit them if you know better. Dwell is the time at each stop.

LocationMilesDwell (h)

Used for drive time when an address can't be routed.

Your numbers

Fill in the route and press Price the Load.

$0
Starting bid (3x cost)
Estimated miles0
Drive time0 h
Dwell time at stops0 h
Total time0 h
Driver pay$0
Fuel$0
Cost of the load (COGS)$0
Bottom line (2x cost)$0
Starting bid (3x cost)$0
Rate per mile at the bid$0.00

Estimates only. Tolls, permits, deadhead to the first pickup, and your fixed costs are on you to add. Bottom line means you do not haul it for less.

Cost first

Time on the load times what you pay the driver, plus miles times what fuel costs you per mile. That is the number the load has to clear before anything else.

Bottom line: 2x

Doubling the cost covers the truck, the insurance, the office, and the days it sits. Below this, you are paying to work.

Start the bid at 3x

Open at three times cost and negotiate down toward your bottom line, never past it. The margin between the two is your business.