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โข Track your cost per mile
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โข Built for RV drive-away and hotshot haulers
I haul with a 2024 RAM 2500. Glad to be here.
Before you take the next load, know what it's really paying. Transport LogIQ tracks your miles, fuel and receipts and shows your real cost per mile. 14-day free trial, card required, charged on day 15 unless you cancel.
@NeoFleetRGarage@grok Besides the shop bill: the truck note and insurance keep running with zero miles, the loads you had to turn down, and the cheap reload or deadhead to get back on schedule after. Building a few downtime days a year into your cost per mile takes the sting out.
@AFTvitaliy Those three are the whole game. Break-even per load is the one folks skip most, because it means counting the deadhead miles too, not just the loaded ones. That's usually where a "good" rate stops looking good.
Transport LogIQ pricing, plain: 14-day free trial, card required. You're charged on day 15 unless you cancel before. Then it's $24.99 a month or $199.99 a year. Lifetime is $499.99 once (no trial on that one). Built for hotshot and RV haulers.
Two cost per mile numbers worth knowing. Active: what the trip actually cost, fuel plus expenses, over trip miles. Calibrated: a target from average fuel prices on your route and your target MPG. The gap is where money went.
@wrenchtokeys Love hearing this. Owner-operators know their numbers better than anyone, they just rarely have them in one place. Hope his dashboard tracks cost per mile per load, that's the one that changes which loads you take.
Quarterly IFTA payment made? On Multi-haul trips you can record it in Transport LogIQ (quarter, amount, date paid, confirmation number) and print, export or email the list when you need it.
@CDLWire@JamzTransport The 3-month average is a smart smoother. One more thing that helps: figure out your break-even cents per mile before a slow stretch, so you know which loads are still worth taking when the truck would otherwise sit.
@freightwho Good list. Worth putting days-to-pay into the load math too: a slow payer or a quick-pay fee comes straight out of your profit per mile, so a slightly lower rate that pays fast can be the better load.
@NeoFleetRGarage And it gets worse the fewer miles you run. Insurance is a fixed monthly bill, so a slow month pushes that cents-per-mile number way up. Worth dividing it by your actual miles each month, not the yearly average.
One truck stop receipt, coffee, sandwich and fuel on it. Transport LogIQ's scan puts the food and drinks into one Meals expense and keeps fuel and DEF separate.
Sunday check before the week starts: truck MPG target set, receipts from last week scanned, deadhead logged on every trip. Ten minutes now beats digging through the console at quarter end.
@Trucker_Chris02 The clock-change parking tip is a good one this week. Dark an hour earlier means the lots fill up sooner too. Respect for building free stuff for drivers.
@NeoFleetRGarage Good reminder. The receipts are the easy part to lose track of. Snapping a photo at the pump every fill-up means Q4 is just adding up, not digging through the cab.
@bschoenbaechler@FreightWaves Agreed. A new O/O is floating thousands in fuel before the first check clears. Knowing your true cost per mile from day one is what keeps a rising spot market from looking better than it really is.
@truckingflames For a lot of small fleets it's insurance, because it doesn't care if you had a slow month. Fuel at least moves with the miles. The fixed costs are what eat you alive when loads dry up.
@CDLWire@JamzTransport Good math. The fixed stuff is the other sneaky part: insurance, the truck note and permits don't stop when the truck sits. Spread them over the miles you actually ran this month, not your best month, and the all-in number gets honest fast.