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Profit Calculator by Teleroute

Know your cost per kilometer, improve your margins

  • Find out how to calculate transportation cost per kilometer
  • Only three steps: fill in the fields to calculate your cost per kilometer
  • What's your profit margin - and how to improve it?

Calculate the transport costs per kilometre for your trucks

How to counter high fuel prices and other increasing transport costs

Transport tariffs may finally be up, but the costs are increasing faster. High fuel prices, personnel costs, insurance, all steadily going up.

But even with rising costs, you still can improve your margins and increase your profit, and so outsmart the competition.

How? Try our free profit calculator and see for yourself how much more money you can make by using a freight exchange, up to the cent per km.

Need a hand? We're here to assist

To help you get the most accurate results from the profit calculator, you need to have the following data ready to input in the tool:

  • The number of trucks, their prices and depreciation details and residual value
  • Number of kilometres each truck drives per year
  • Costs related to trailers, drivers, personnel and fuel
  • Typical empty running, in percentage
  • Your average margin

Don’t have the above data at hand? No worries, as the calculator will prefill the data with typical industry values so you can quickly get results.

  1. Calculate the costs per vehicle
  2. Costs when using Teleroute
  3. Savings for the entire fleet

1Calculate the costs per vehicle

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Enter the number of km per year per truck on average

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This is the % offer margin you add to your cost price

Gross cost of driver (€/year)

Include salary, social benefits, holiday pay

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Lodging & Expenses (€/year)

Include overnight stays, meals, other expenses

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Cost of the driver (per year)

Investment per truck (€)

Cost to buy or lease 1 truck

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Depreciation period per Truck (years)

The period in which the truck reduces value. Usualy is 5 years.

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Depreciation rate per year (%)

The % of which your truck reduces in value per year. Average is 7%.

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Rest value per truck (€)

The is the remaining value of the truck after the depreciation period and depreciation rate.

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Cost of the truck (€/year)

Investment per trailer (€)

Cost to buy or lease 1 trailer.

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Depreciation period per trailer (years)

The period in which the trailer reduces value. Usualy is 10 years.

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Depreciation rate per year (%)

The % of which your trailer reduces in value per year. Average is 2%.

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Rest value per trailer

The is the remaining value of the trailer after the depreciation period and depreciation rate.

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Cost of the trailer (per year)

Repair, maintenance and tyres (€/year)

Include all other operational costs for 1 truck and trailer.

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Costs such as insurance/tolls (€/year)

Costs such as insurance/tolls (€/year)

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Overhead costs such as office/training (€/year)

Include office, rent, utilities, driver and training.

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Other costs (€/year)

Fuel price (€/liter)

Check up top date fuel prices per country on www.energy.eu

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Fuel consumption (liters/100km)

Liter of fuel per 100km per truck.

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Fuel cost (€/year)

COST (per month)

This is the total cost per month for 1 truck and trailer.

COST (per km)

This is the total cost per Km for 1 truck and trailer.

2Costs when using Teleroute

Average empty running per vehicle (%)

Teleroute decreases your empty running by 25%

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Cost per vehicle (per km)

Here you see your cost per Km. This is increased compared with the step2 as a result of running empty.

Average empty running when using Teleroute (%)

Teleroute decreases your empty running by 25%

Please fill this field.You will now see your cost per Km reduced as by using Teleroute you have reduced empty running.

Cost per vehicle (per km) when using Teleroute

3Savings for the entire fleet when using Teleroute

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