Enter a few details about your fleet to estimate the annual impact of empty miles.
What's changed is the math.
Fuel increases don't distinguish between loaded and empty miles. Empty miles still burn fuel, without revenue to offset. Your driving hasn't changed. The damage has.
That shift erodes your margin with no obvious origin. Higher fuel spend, and routes that underperform, not a single identifiable line item.
Here’s a calculator that makes that cost visible.
What’s changed is the financial impact.
Fuel increases don’t just affect loaded miles. They apply equally to the miles that don’t generate revenue. The activity hasn’t changed, but the cost attached to it has.
For many carriers, that shift doesn’t show up clearly in one place. It’s spread across fuel spend, route performance, and margins that feel tighter without a single obvious cause.
This calculator gives you a way to isolate one part of that picture.
Deadhead is not a new problem. But the financial squeeze of rising fuel costs has made it an expensive problem.
Fuel increases mean every empty mile costs more to run. Contracted rates rarely keep pace with that shift. The consequence is margin compression that's easy to feel but harder to trace back to a specific cause.
Extreme Transportation faced challenges with an outdated transportation management system, slowing its growth and efficiency. By switching to Magnus TMS, the company leveraged advanced AI and machine learning capabilities to optimize asset utilization, improve decision-making, and automate workflows.
Extreme Transportation easily onboarded drivers and set them on track to achieve a 40% expansion goal. Learn more about their journey in our success story.But they do get more precise about:
Because without that, it’s difficult to understand where margin is being lost — or how to recover it.
Magnus gives carriers a clearer view of: