Grab That LoadStart with your truck, trailers, and operating costs; enter the whole run—not just the loaded leg—and use the result to make a clearer take, negotiate, or pass decision.
In Garage, enter the information the calculator uses for your operation, including average MPG and expected monthly miles. Use a realistic MPG based on your actual truck, trailer, loads, terrain, and driving—not a best-case number.
Enter truck and trailer payments, insurance, software, and annual permit costs. Grab That Load allocates these costs across your expected mileage so a load carries its share of overhead.
Add a maintenance allowance per mile, a tax-reserve percentage, and your target take-home per total mile. These are planning assumptions, so review them when your operation changes.
Create multiple trailer profiles, keep active equipment available, choose a default trailer, and configure cargo and deck limits. Analyze Load uses the trailer selected for that load.
Update fuel price for each load and revisit the Garage when insurance, payments, maintenance experience, mileage, equipment, or other business costs change. Better inputs produce a more useful estimate.
Use the amount the load is expected to pay. If the run includes legitimate additional revenue such as detention, tarping, or TONU, add it separately so the base pay stays clear.
Loaded miles are miles traveled while revenue freight is onboard. Deadhead means miles traveled without revenue freight onboard. Driving toward another pickup is not deadhead when revenue freight is already onboard. Total miles are loaded miles plus deadhead miles.
Enter the current diesel price and dispatch percentage. Add tolls, scales, parking, permits, supplies, or other one-off costs only when they are not already included in your operating baseline.
Select the trailer you intend to use, then enter freight weight and deck space. Grab That Load compares those inputs with the configured equipment limits and shows FITS EQUIPMENT, NEAR CAPACITY, or EXCEEDS CONFIGURED CAPACITY.
Keep the default End at delivery analysis, add a drive home or empty reposition, or add another paying load. The complete-plan result changes when you include miles and costs after the first delivery.
Select Calculate Load Profitability. The app combines load revenue, fuel, dispatch, maintenance, allocated fixed costs, trip expenses, and tax reserve to produce an estimate and decision score.
Avoid double counting: if a cost is already represented in your Garage baseline, do not enter the same cost again as a one-off trip expense.
Capacity planning: Capacity is based on the equipment ratings and limits you entered. Always verify actual axle, tire, hitch, vehicle, trailer and scale weights before hauling.
The estimated take-home for this specific load after modeled operating costs and the tax reserve. It is a planning estimate, not guaranteed earnings.
Estimated take-home divided by total miles. Using all miles makes loads with heavy deadhead easier to compare fairly.
A time-based check: divide estimated profit by the realistic total hours the load will consume, including pickup, delivery, loading, waiting, securement, breaks, and repositioning. Grab That Load supplies route drive-time estimates; the profitability card itself does not replace your full time estimate.
The gross revenue per total mile needed to cover modeled costs. With percentage dispatch, the calculation accounts for the fact that the fee rises with gross revenue.
Gross revenue divided by total miles. This is different from a broker's loaded-mile rate because it includes deadhead in the mileage.
A decision aid based on the entered numbers and your targets. Treat TAKE, NEGOTIATE, or PASS guidance as an estimate alongside safety, timing, equipment fit, payment risk, and your own judgment.
Route Command can start at the current or manual location, then add pickups, deliveries, normal stops, and a Final Destination such as home, repositioning, parking, or another endpoint. Rearrange the stops to match the planned trip.
Pickups add freight onboard, deliveries remove it, and normal Stops do not change onboard freight. Physical route segments are counted once even when more than one load shares them.
Deadhead means miles traveled without revenue freight onboard. Driving toward another pickup is not deadhead when revenue freight is already onboard. The segment remains loaded until the freight onboard has been delivered.
Compare returned route mileage and drive-time estimates before selecting one, then use Open in Google Maps for navigation context. Verify restrictions, clearances, weights, weather, closures, and equipment suitability before driving.
Two loads can fit individually but exceed configured cargo or deck space while both are onboard. Route Command evaluates configured capacity by segment as freight is picked up and delivered.
Review the route first, then apply the selected mileage and trip structure to Analyze Load. Route Command is an advanced feature available with eligible access; the three basic After Delivery choices remain separate in Analyze Load.
Save an analysis for later, turn the accepted saved load into a Trip, and keep the projected result connected to the work. Free and paid plan limits apply.
With eligible access, use Load Comparison to review gross revenue, deadhead, total miles, estimated take-home, and score side by side.
Test how changes to rate, deadhead, fuel, or other inputs affect a load before negotiating or committing.
Review saved operating results and lane patterns from the data available in your account. Past estimates and results do not guarantee future freight, costs, or profit.
With eligible access, manage accepted trips, record actual expenses, and track invoices and accounts receivable so projected and actual results stay connected.
Set revenue, profit, and mileage goals and monitor progress. Targets are planning benchmarks, not forecasts or guarantees.
Business Command Center, Quotes, P&L, Maintenance, Cash Flow, Brokers & Customers, Compliance, and Tax Center remain in development and are not presented as completed public-plan features.
After Delivery is available now inside Analyze Load. Route Command, Load Comparison, What-If, Trips, expenses, invoices, and projected-versus-actual review require eligible access. Check the current plan section for pricing and availability.
Grab That Load provides planning estimates based on the information and assumptions entered. It does not provide legal, tax, accounting, routing, or financial advice.