Know what a load
really pays
before you say yes.
TruckRadar is a free trip cost and load profit calculator for truck drivers, owner-operators and dispatchers. Put in the pickup, the drop-off and the rate — it works out the fuel, the empty miles, the DEF and the tolls against what the broker is offering, then tells you plainly whether to take it and what to counter with if not.
Works in any browser, on the phone in the cab. Nothing to install.
Check a lane right now
No account. No card. Opens the calculator with your lane already in it.
What a rate confirmation doesn't show you
A $2,100 load from Dallas to Atlanta. The load board shows it as a strong rate per mile. Here it is again once the empty miles to the pickup and the run home to Houston are counted — 1,816 miles of tyres and diesel for one paycheck.
Same load. Same money. Less than half the rate per mile once the empty running is in the sum. TruckRadar shows you the second number before you book, not at the end of the month when the fuel receipts arrive.
Ten tools, one tab, no subscription
The things a driver or a dispatch office would otherwise pay for separately — or work out on the back of a fuel receipt.
Load profit calculator
Fuel loaded and empty at your own MPG, DEF, reefer fuel, tolls, lumper fees and any cost per mile you set — against the rate offered. Break-even, profit, and a counter-offer figure at your target rate.
Truck-legal routing
Routes for your height, length, gross weight and hazmat endorsement, not a car's route. If it ever has to fall back to car routing it says so on screen instead of handing you short miles.
Hours-of-service planner
The 11-hour driving limit, the 14-hour window, the 30-minute break, 10-hour resets and the 70-hour cycle with a 34-hour restart — simulated to tell you when you would really arrive.
Whole-loop & triangle costing
Price this load, the reload and the empty run home as one number. The only honest way to compare a fronthaul against a cheaper load that ends up somewhere useful.
Broker & carrier check Free account
An MC or DOT number checked against five public FMCSA datasets: active authority, bond, insurance, age of the authority, revocations and safety rating — as plain red, amber and green flags.
Lane rate index Free account
What a lane has actually been paying, from rates other members reported: the median, the spread, a 30-day trend and the backhaul — so you know whether $2.10 is fair on that run.
Cheapest fuel region
Which state along your route has the cheapest diesel this week, and roughly what filling there instead of at the other end saves on this trip's gallons.
Truck stops and parking
Truck stops, service plazas, rest areas and truck parking within about a mile of your route, in mile order, with space counts and showers where they have been mapped.
Weather alerts on the route
Active National Weather Service warnings sampled along the line you are actually driving, worst first and pinned on the map — not the forecast for a city you pass at 3am.
Cover-by time
Give it the pickup appointment and it works backwards through the HOS rules to the latest hour you can legally leave — or tells you the pickup cannot be made, and by how much.
Three inputs. About twenty seconds.
No onboarding, no demo call, no spreadsheet to maintain.
Set your truck once
Pick a preset — 53' dry van, reefer, flatbed, step deck, hotshot, 26' box truck or a cargo van — then correct the numbers to match your truck: loaded and empty MPG, average speed, DEF percentage, reefer gallons per hour, your own cost per mile and your target rate. Saved in your browser and reused on every load. You can keep several trucks.
Enter the load
Where the truck is now for the deadhead, the pickup, the drop-off, and the rate the broker is offering. Search finds cities, addresses and named warehouses across the United States and Canada. Add tolls or a lumper fee if you know them.
Get a straight answer
A verdict in plain words — worth taking, below your target, or losing money — with the profit, the all-in rate per mile, the fuel share of the rate, and the figure to counter with if it falls short. Change the MPG or the rate and it recalculates instantly.
Most calculators stop at the loaded mile
That is the number brokers quote, and it is the number that makes a bad load look fine.
Deadhead is priced separately
Empty miles burn fuel at a different rate to loaded miles, so they are costed at your empty MPG, not your loaded one. Put in where the truck is sitting now and the run to the pickup is in the sum from the start.
Where the truck ends up counts
The Next load tab shows where the truck goes empty, what time it gets there under the HOS rules, the local diesel price and how far that is from home. A load that pays well into a dead market is not a good load.
Price the whole triangle
Add a reload and a home base and TruckRadar costs every leg — this load, the reload, and each empty run between them — then gives one all-in rate per mile for the entire loop. That is the number to compare offers on.
TruckRadar TMS —
run the whole office,
not just the load
The calculator answers one question about one load. The Transport Management System is the other half: a commercial product for carriers and dispatch offices that runs the paperwork, the people and the money behind every load you book. It is in development, priced per truck, and entirely separate from the free tools — nothing on this page moves behind a paywall.
- Dispatch boardEvery load, driver and trailer on one screen, with status from booked to delivered.
- Drivers & equipmentLicences, medicals, insurance and maintenance with expiry reminders before they bite.
- DocumentsRate confirmations, BOLs and PODs attached to the load and pulled from the driver's phone.
- InvoicingInvoice from the load, track what is unpaid, and hand a clean pack to your factor.
- SettlementsDriver and owner-operator pay by mile, percentage or flat, with deductions and advances.
- IFTAMiles per state collected as trips happen, ready for the quarterly return.
- Customer portalGive shippers a tracking link instead of answering the phone about it.
Get early access
Tell us what you run and we'll show you the TMS before it opens, with founder pricing for the first fleets on the list.
One email when it opens. No newsletter, no sharing your details, unsubscribe in a click.
Anyone who eats the fuel bill
Owner-operators
You are the one paying for the fuel. Set your real cost per mile once and every load gets measured against it, including the miles nobody pays you for.
Company drivers
Plan the clock before you roll: when the 11 hours run out, where the reset falls, whether that delivery appointment is reachable, and where you can park at the end of it.
Dispatchers and agents
Check a broker's authority before you book, compare several offers side by side, save the lanes you run often, and see what a lane has been paying before you negotiate.
Small fleets
Several trucks, each with its own MPG, dimensions and target rate — switched in a dropdown rather than kept in separate spreadsheets. The TMS above is built for you next.
Every figure traces to a named source
Nothing is invented, and nothing is scraped from somewhere it shouldn't be.
| What | Source | How current |
|---|---|---|
| Diesel & gasoline prices | U.S. Energy Information Administration retail averages, eleven regions | Published weekly, pulled daily |
| Truck routing | OpenRouteService HGV profile with your height, length, weight and hazmat | Live, per trip |
| Maps & place search | OpenStreetMap and Photon | Live |
| Broker & carrier records | Five public FMCSA datasets — authority, insurance, bonds, safety rating, census | Refreshed daily by FMCSA |
| Truck stops & parking | OpenStreetMap, rebuilt into a fast lookup table | Rebuilt monthly |
| Weather alerts | U.S. National Weather Service active alerts | Live, U.S. only |
| Hours-of-service rules | FMCSA property-carrying regulations, simulated in your browser | Instant |
| Lane rates | Reported by TruckRadar members — shown only as an average of three or more | 90-day window |
Honest limits, stated up front: fuel prices are regional averages, not pump prices; weather alerts cover the United States only; truck stop data is volunteer-mapped, so a few will be missing or closed; and the hours-of-service planner is an estimate for planning, not a replacement for your ELD or your logs.
Free, and here's why that isn't a trick
No trial, no card, and no feature held back behind a paywall on the calculator.
It costs us almost nothing to run
TruckRadar sits on free service tiers and free public data, and the maths runs in your browser. A bar along the bottom of the app shows exactly how much of that free capacity has been used this month and when it resets — so you can see the same thing we can.
- No ads anywhere
- No selling your data or your lanes
- Your trucks and saved loads stay in your browser
- An account is only needed for two features
Paid comes later, and separately
The commercial product is the TMS — a different tool for a different job, priced per truck. The calculator is not the free trial of it. If the free capacity behind the calculator ever does run out, the site will say so plainly before anything changes.
There is also a voluntary contribution link in the footer of the app for people who want to chip in. It buys no features and unlocks nothing — everyone gets the same tool either way.
Before you trust a number
Is TruckRadar really free?
Do I need an account to use the load calculator?
How does TruckRadar decide whether a load is worth taking?
What is the difference between rate per loaded mile and all-in rate per mile?
Does TruckRadar use truck routing or car routing?
Where do the fuel prices come from?
Can TruckRadar check whether a broker is legitimate?
Does TruckRadar plan hours of service?
Does it work in Canada?
Where do the lane rates come from?
What is the TruckRadar TMS and when is it coming?
Do you sell my data or my lanes?
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