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Does this load pay?
Put in what the board says. It works out what the load pays across every mile the truck turns — the empty ones to go and get it included — and holds that against what a mile costs the average US truck.
For US and Canadian businesses. In miles and US dollars, because that is how the averages are published.
Your trucks are not the average
This checker uses a national figure. Your fuel, insurance, payment and repairs make your own cost per mile, and on a small fleet it is often higher. Milepost works it out from the bills you actually paid, then checks every load against it.
For US and Canadian businesses. $79 a month after 14 days free, no card.
Where the averages come from
| What a mile costs | A mile |
|---|---|
| US average, all fleets | $2.336 |
| US average, fleets under 5 trucks the average, with fuel $0.050 and repairs $0.055 a mile higher, as ATRI finds for fleets under five trucks | $2.441 |
Both include fuel, the truck and trailer, repairs, tires, insurance, tolls, permits and the driver's wages and benefits. The margin is the 10% Milepost starts every fleet on. Source: ATRI, An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking, 2026 update (2025 operating year).
Questions
Does it work for an owner-operator leased on to a carrier?
Yes. Put in the bills you actually pay. If the carrier pays your insurance, plates or IFTA, leave those lines out; if it takes them back out of your settlement, put in what it took. Chargebacks, escrow and trailer rental go in "Anything else". If you are paid a percentage of the load, check each load with the flat figure your share comes to, not the rate the carrier was paid.
Can it handle a driver paid a percentage of the load?
Yes. In Settings, choose "A percentage of what the load pays" and the percent. Each month's actual driver pay is used when you put it in; the setting fills in when you leave that box empty. Payroll tax and workers' comp go on top (15% to start, 0 for drivers paid as 1099 contractors). The cost per mile carries driver pay as an average, so on a load that pays well above your usual rate, the driver's share is bigger than that average: leave a little more room on those.
Does it work for team drivers?
Yes. Put in the miles the truck ran and what both drivers were paid in that month's driver pay. The cost per mile is built from the truck's real miles and real bills, so a team's extra miles and its second paycheck both land in it.
Where does IFTA go?
It has its own line on every month, because the fuel tax settled up each quarter never shows on a fuel receipt. Put in what the quarter's return came to, spread over its months, or a refund as a minus figure. Left at zero, the app says so. Milepost does not file IFTA for you.
Does it work in Canada?
Yes. In Settings, distance and fuel can be kilometers and liters, and every figure is then per kilometer. The industry averages shown beside yours are US figures in US dollars (Source: ATRI 2026), and the screens say so.
The rest of the JTS tools
One trade each, and the same idea every time: one number you have never had, worked out from what you already know.