KRYSTAL Freight Intelligence Engine

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Guides

Load guides with worked numbers

Each guide answers one question owner-operators ask about a load, with every number worked through. Try the same math on your own costs with the cost per mile calculator, or see how KRYSTAL does it on the sample report.

Every example uses made-up figures to show the method. Your own costs will differ.

  1. Is This Trucking Load Worth Taking? A Worked Example

    One broker offer worked through from start to finish: total miles, cost per mile, your own pay, profit floors, and whether to book, counter or pass.

  2. How to Calculate Load Profit After Your Carrier's Percentage

    What a leased-on owner-operator keeps from the same $2,000 load at 72%, 80% and 88%, with and without fuel surcharge passed through.

  3. Deadhead Miles: Why a $3-per-Mile Load Can Pay Much Less

    How deadhead turns a $3.00 loaded-mile rate into $2.31 across every mile, and what that does to the money you keep. Worked example included.

  4. How to Calculate Your Minimum Acceptable Freight Rate

    Work out your break-even rate, then add a profit floor per mile or per hour to get the lowest rate worth taking, with a full worked example.

  5. How Much Should You Counter on a Broker's Offer?

    How to set a counter from your own minimum rate rather than a guess, when a gap is worth negotiating, and when to move on to the next load.

  6. Profit per Day vs. Rate per Mile: Comparing Two Loads

    A long load at $2.60 a mile against a short one at $3.29: which leaves more per day once time and fixed costs are counted, and when that flips.

  7. How to Evaluate a Load with an Empty Return Trip

    A $2,200 outbound load that looks like $867 profit loses money once the empty drive home is counted. How to check a load against the way back.

  8. Detention, Layovers, and Multistop Loads: Counting the Full Cost

    How eight extra hours at a dock cut a load's net per hour nearly in half, what detention pay recovers, and what to confirm before taking a multistop load.

  9. Fuel Surcharge and All-In Rates: Comparing Your Actual Revenue

    Compare a linehaul-plus-fuel-surcharge offer with an all-in rate on the same basis, and see how the comparison changes on a percentage lease.

  10. Estimated Load Profit vs. Actual Settlement

    Why the final result differs from the estimate: extra miles, fuel price, waiting time and detention pay, reconciled line by line on one load.