A $2.50 load is not a $2.50 load.

A load board quotes you a rate per loaded mile. The miles you turn to go and get it are not in that number, and nobody mentions them. Milepost works out what a mile actually costs you — from your own fuel, tyres, payments and insurance — and then tells you, before you say yes, whether the load clears it. 14 days free, no card.

What it looks like

Three trucks, one quarter of ordinary bills — with a turbo in the middle month, because that is what a real quarter looks like.

Every mile turned

$2.051

85,300 miles, $174,914 out

Break-even per loaded mile

$2.495

17.8% of those miles were empty and nobody paid for them

Worth pulling the truck out for

$2.772

with 10% on it

A load at $2.35 a mile — 620 loaded, 130 to go and get it — loses this outfit $81.

It reads fine on the board. Once the empty miles are on it the truck turns 750 miles for $1,457 — that is $1.943 a mile against costs of $2.051. It would have to pay $2.481 a loaded mile just to break even.

Where the money goes	A mile	Industry
Fuel	$0.547	$0.480
Driver pay, with tax and comp	$0.520	$0.818
Truck payment	$0.222	$0.280
Repairs and servicing	$0.168	$0.220
The owner's own pay	$0.158	—
Insurance	$0.121	$0.110

Those figures are worked out by the same code you would be running. Yours will look nothing like them -- that is rather the point. The industry column is from ATRI's Operational Costs of Trucking, 2026 update.

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What it does

It counts the miles nobody pays you for.

A rate is quoted per loaded mile. The run to go and get the load is not in it. Put in what you really turned -- loaded and empty -- and you get two numbers: what a mile costs you, and what a LOADED mile has to pay for that to be worth doing. Those are not the same number, and the second one is the one brokers are quoting against.

It checks a load before you say yes.

Rate, loaded miles, miles to the pickup. It tells you what the load really pays across every mile the truck turns, what you keep, and what it would have to pay to be worth pulling out for. Thirty seconds, standing at the pump.

It uses your bills, not an average.

Your fuel, your insurance, your payment, your repairs. The industry figure sits on the screen beside yours so you can see which of your lines is out of step -- but the number you price off is your own. A small fleet pays about nine cents a mile more for fuel and ten more for repairs than the big carriers, which is exactly why taking their rates loses you money.

It catches the six things a spreadsheet gets wrong.

Empty miles left out. The truck payment and depreciation both counted -- the same truck twice. Driver pay figured on loaded miles only, and without payroll tax and comp on it. IFTA left out, because it never shows on a fuel receipt. Nothing set aside for the engine. And your own pay missing, so your wages get called profit.

What it is not

It is not a load board and it is not a dispatcher. It does not find you freight and it does not talk to brokers.
It is not ELD, IFTA filing or accounting software. It does not replace your bookkeeper and it never files anything for you.
It does not tell you what to charge. It tells you what a mile costs you and what a load actually pays. What you take is your business.
It is not another free cost-per-mile calculator. Those ask you to guess at your costs once and forget them. This one uses the bills you actually paid, month after month, which is the only thing that makes the number true.