Turn Dedicated Freight Into a Margin Strategy

Summary: FreightMath’s Dedicated Pricing tool helps carriers price dedicated freight with clarity and confidence. Users can model rates, see true operating costs, and instantly compare proposed pricing against breakeven and target margins, all while generating professional, client-ready proposals. It replaces instinct-based pricing with data-driven margin clarity.

Pricing dedicated freight should be disciplined, data driven, and defensible. Too often it is none of the above.

In keeping with the goal of launching one free interactive tool per month, the FreightMath^™ team has released an interactive Dedicated Pricing calculator, built specifically for carriers who want true cost transparency and professional, client-ready output.

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Built for How Dedicated Freight Actually Works

The calculator allows you to model pricing per load, per mile, per hour, or per week, with full visibility into every major cost driver that impacts dedicated performance:

• Driver pay models including hourly, per mile, or percent of revenue
• Payroll taxes and benefits
• Fuel and DEF
• Equipment and trailer ratios
• Maintenance, insurance, overhead, and tolls
• Custom upcharges and FSC structure

The input interface is intuitive and operationally grounded.

It automatically calculates driver requirements based on miles, hours, and service days, then compares your proposed rate against breakeven and target margin in real time.

Client-Ready Output in Minutes

The tool generates a clean, presentation-ready Pricing Proposal PDF that clearly summarizes the operational profile and pricing structure, separating linehaul and fuel surcharge components for transparency and clarity.

It also includes detailed weekly and monthly P&L proformas for internal analysis, breaking down revenue, operating expenses, and net operating margin. Key performance metrics – including cost per mile, revenue per mile, breakeven rate, and annual projection – are highlighted to support confident decision-making.

In short, it delivers both a client-facing rate sheet and the financial validation behind it,  turning pricing from a quote into a margin-backed strategy.

In this sample report, the modeled scenario produces a 20.0% net operating margin, supported by full weekly and monthly income statements.

Why This Matters

Dedicated freight is margin sensitive, capital intensive, and contract driven. It demands precision, yet, in many operations, pricing is built in spreadsheets and justified after the fact. This changes that.

This platform brings structured pricing intelligence to a segment often priced on instinct and transforms it from a reactive exercise into a structured margin strategy.

This calculator also serves as a prototype contributor to a future BidRight Dedicated Pricing application within the BidRight Platform. As we refine the modeling logic and user experience through real-world feedback, the insights gained will directly inform the development of an integrated dedicated pricing module, bringing the same cost transparency and margin discipline to carriers managing dedicated contracts at scale.

Use it. Stress test it. Share it with your team.

If you’re ready to bring discipline and margin clarity to your dedicated freight pricing, explore the Dedicated Pricing Calculator and run your own scenarios.

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