Free carrier tool · Trip economics
RPM & Load Profitability Calculator
Compare the loaded rate with the rate across every mile the truck actually moves. Enter your own load, deadhead, fuel, MPG, reserve, fixed trip costs, and optional service percentage to estimate trip economics.
Why all-mile RPM matters
A strong loaded rate can look very different after deadhead.
Loaded RPM only divides gross pay by loaded miles. All-mile RPM includes deadhead too, which makes it a better trip-level comparison when you are evaluating fuel, reserve, fixed costs, and the miles required to position the truck.
Your assumptions
Calculate one trip.
Estimated result
Trip economics
- Total miles
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- Estimated fuel cost
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- Reserve amount
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- Service fee
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- Estimated operating cost
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- Break-even gross pay
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- Break-even loaded RPM
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- Break-even all-mile RPM
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Estimate only. This tool is not accounting, tax, financial, legal, safety, insurance, regulatory, or investment advice and does not predict market rates, load availability, payment, utilization, profit, or revenue.
Transparent math
The formulas use only the assumptions you enter.
No market average, target RPM, fuel benchmark, lane rate, or profitability promise is inserted by Hermes.
- Total miles
- Loaded miles + deadhead miles
- Gross loaded RPM
- Gross load pay ÷ loaded miles
- All-mile RPM
- Gross load pay ÷ total miles
- Estimated fuel cost
- (Total miles ÷ MPG) × fuel price per gallon
- Maintenance / variable reserve
- Total miles × reserve per mile
- Service fee
- Gross load pay × optional service percentage
- Estimated operating cost
- Fuel + reserve + fixed trip costs + service fee
- Estimated net before tax
- Gross load pay − estimated operating cost
- Break-even gross pay
- (Fuel + reserve + fixed trip costs) ÷ (1 − service percentage)
- Break-even loaded RPM
- Break-even gross pay ÷ loaded miles
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