Grab That Load connects your real costs, deadhead, route, equipment, fees, and what happens after delivery—so you can decide before you commit the truck.
The answer changes when the full route, equipment fit, fees, deadhead, and next move are included.
Illustrative estimate, not a customer result or live load offer. See the assumptions and math.
Analyze Load, Route Command, After Delivery, What-If, Comparison, and Negotiation work together around the same operating decision.
Start with your operation—not a generic rate-per-mile rule. Build the trip as it will actually happen, then see whether the load earns its place on your truck.
The decision comes first. Trips, expenses, invoices, projected-versus-actual review, and broader business management stay connected farther down the workflow.
This quick estimate uses adjustable example costs. A free account replaces those assumptions with your truck, trailer and business numbers.
The starting example is $1,850 for 740 loaded miles and 110 empty miles. These are illustrative inputs, not a live load offer or a route quote.
The breakdown uses the same calculation engine as the load analyzer. Change the inputs above and select Calculate this load to update it.
Fuel uses the price and MPG you enter, not a live diesel-price feed. Non-fuel costs are an adjustable per-mile allowance for payments, insurance, permits, software and maintenance; they are not a second fuel charge.
Dispatch is a percentage of gross pay. The tax reserve applies only to positive pre-tax profit; it is a planning allowance, not your actual tax liability. The quick-check decision score uses a $0.80 take-home target per total mile, not a market-rate prediction.
Only the miles entered here count. No return trip is added automatically. Include expected empty miles in Deadhead, or use After Delivery in the full analyzer to model going home, repositioning or another load.
Actual costs and profit can differ. This is a planning estimate, not a guarantee of earnings or tax advice.
Resets this public calculator only. It does not change your account, Garage or saved loads.
Worked example · starting inputs
Non-dispatch costs ÷ (1 − dispatch rate), then divided by total miles. With these inputs: $790.05 ÷ 0.92 ÷ 850 = $1.01 per total mile.
Break-even covers the modeled costs; it does not include a profit target. Displayed amounts are rounded after calculation.
Save the trailers you actually run, select the one planned for the load, and compare freight weight and deck space with the equipment limits you configured.
Keep multiple trailer profiles, mark active equipment, choose a default trailer, and analyze freight against the selected trailer instead of a generic equipment assumption.
Capacity is based on the equipment ratings and limits you entered. Always verify actual axle, tire, hitch, vehicle, trailer and scale weights before hauling.
Route Command supports multi-stop planning with freight added and removed as the trip moves. It is available with eligible access and is separate from the core After Delivery choices.
Stops can be rearranged. Pickups add freight onboard, deliveries remove it, normal Stops do not change onboard freight, and Final Destination can represent home, repositioning, parking, or another endpoint.
Deadhead means miles traveled without revenue freight onboard. Driving toward another pickup is not deadhead when revenue freight is already onboard. Each physical route segment is counted once.
Grab That Load evaluates configured capacity by segment as freight is picked up and delivered—not just one load at a time.
A load that looks profitable through its first delivery can produce a different result after empty repositioning or another paying load is included.
Keep the original through-delivery analysis with no additional empty miles.
Add the expected empty miles and additional trip costs after delivery.
Combine a second paying load with the first planned journey and review the complete result.
Three focused choices inside Analyze Load for what happens immediately after the first delivery.
Ordered multi-stop planning, overlapping freight, segment mileage, and capacity by segment.
Jakob Founder, Grab That Load
I’m Jakob, the founder of Grab That Load.
My interest in hotshot trucking started with wanting more control over my future—a business I could build and grow. But before jumping in, I wanted to understand the numbers. Not just what a load paid, but what would actually be left after running it.
As I researched the industry and read discussions about bad loads, one question kept coming up: How do you know whether a load is worth taking for your operation?
A good-looking rate doesn’t tell the whole story. There’s fuel, empty miles, insurance, maintenance, dispatch fees—and whatever happens after delivery.
That’s what led me to build Grab That Load.
I’m not going to pretend I’ve spent years running a hotshot business. I’m building this while working toward that future myself, and I want experienced operators involved in shaping it.
My goal is straightforward: help people understand their costs, question the numbers, and make more informed decisions before committing their truck and time.
If something is confusing, missing, or doesn’t reflect how you work, I want to hear it. That feedback helps make this a tool worth using.
Ask a question or share feedbackA load analysis is a projection. Connecting the saved load to the trip, recorded expenses, and invoice helps show why the final result changed.
Illustrative example only—not actual customer earnings or a guaranteed result.
Decide whether the load makes money first. Then keep the job connected as you run it, record what happened and understand the final profit.
Use your costs to judge whether the load is worth taking.
Carry the accepted load into the trip and route workflow.
Record actual expenses and what was invoiced.
Compare what you projected with what the trip produced.
Illustrative feature previews—not customer earnings, live load listings or guaranteed results. Feature access depends on account eligibility; public plan and billing availability is shown separately below.
Compare gross revenue, deadhead, total miles, take-home and Grab That Load score side by side.
Arrange pickups, deliveries, normal stops, and the final destination while freight and capacity change by segment.
Connect the load estimate with trip expenses, the invoice and the final result.
Start with the operator’s own numbers—not a generic market average.
Keep the decision connected to the work and the final business result.
Business tools are being developed and tested with owner-operators. The Business Command Center, full P&L, maintenance and cash-flow planning, broker/customer management, compliance, tax tools, quotes and direct sales are not being presented as finished features.
Start with the calculator, unlock the complete owner-operator workflow with Pro, and move into advanced intelligence or back-office tools when you need them.
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Start with the free calculator and keep the decision connected through the final result.