Know your profit — per mile, truck, and lane

5 min read Updated 10/19/2026 18 views

Know your profit — per mile, per truck, per lane

Not another report to build. Because FAST already holds the data, the profit picture is already assembled.

The short version
FAST turns the settlement, driver pay, fuel, schedule, and maintenance data it already holds into live profitability and daily action. See true cost per mile, revenue per truck, profit by region down to each truck, measured fuel performance by lane/driver/truck, and idle patterns by driver/truck/terminal — with zero exports or pivot tables.

Most carriers fly blind until tax time

You can feel when a month was tight, but by the time the accountant confirms it, the quarter is over and the money is gone. Cost per mile is the single number that runs a linehaul business — and for most carriers it lives in a spreadsheet that’s always three months behind reality.

You don’t know a truck’s real cost per mile until months after the miles are run.
Fuel, pay, and maintenance sit in three systems that never add up in one place.
A truck can lose money for weeks before anyone notices.
Building the report means exporting to a spreadsheet and rebuilding a pivot table every time.
The Performance dashboard — profitability snapshot, current-period metrics, and compliance in one view.

The numbers that actually run the business

True cost per mile
CPM by truck, driver, and domicile — pay, fuel, and maintenance included, not estimated.
Revenue per truck
Rank the fleet by contribution and spot the units quietly losing money.
Fuel efficiency & margin
Real dispatched trips grouped by lane, driver, and truck, with excluded work disclosed and dollars based on matched fuel prices.
Idle patterns & cost
Repeat idling by driver, truck, and terminal, priced only when a real matched fuel price is available.

Profit by Region: see where you make money

Profit by Region puts your fleet on a U.S. map with each region colored by its margin per mile, so the regions making and losing money stand out at a glance. Hover a region for its P&L per mile — revenue, each expense line, and net profit — then click to drill from region to domicile to truck, down to each driver’s share of that truck’s profit. FedEx authorized chargebacks land on the truck they belong to, and settlement adjustments count toward each truck’s result. Group your domiciles into your own regions, or use the FedEx regions as they are.

Why the numbers are trustworthy

Reporting is only as good as its inputs. In FAST there is one set of inputs: the settlement you imported, the pay run you finalized, the fuel that synced from WEX, and the maintenance you logged. Every dashboard reads that same data, so your reports reconcile by construction — there is no second source to argue with.

Live
Not tax-time
Per-truck
Profit visibility
0
Exports needed

Compliance reports from data you already have

Data FAST already holds — your trucks’ GPS, settlements, pay, and Motive hours-of-service logs — also answers two compliance questions, with no extra data entry. Both reports open from the Compliance tab of the dashboard and download to Excel.

  • Local Tax Miles — for the Louisville Metro and Lexington-Fayette occupational license tax, FAST measures your trucks’ time and miles inside each district from ELD GPS and works out the share of trip revenue and driver pay earned there, so your accountant or payroll provider has the figures for the return.
  • Personal Conveyance review — every Personal Conveyance use logged on your Motive ELD is measured against the truck’s GPS, and the ones worth a second look are flagged for a manager to review.
See your real cost per mile
Run a pay week in FAST and your profit dashboard fills itself in.
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Catch a money-losing truck in-period, while you can still act on it.
Walk into every week knowing true cost per mile and which measured lane, truck, or operating pattern deserves attention.
End the fuel, pay, and maintenance reconciliation entirely.
Share the same saved views with your team every week.
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I have gained visibility and management of areas that I wasn’t seeing or tracking as closely.
Danielle · Erie Trans Co · Very Satisfied

One source of truth. Every report reads the same data you paid drivers and fueled trucks with — so the numbers reconcile automatically.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a data warehouse or BI tool?

No. The dashboards are built in. If you can run payroll in FAST, you already have the reporting — there’s nothing to configure or connect.

How is cost per mile calculated?

From the real data FAST already holds — driver pay from the settlement, fuel from your WEX sync, and maintenance from your work orders — rolled up by truck, driver, and domicile.

Can I bookmark the views I use most?

Yes — save and share company bookmarks so your team opens the same views every week.

Can I see profit by region, domicile, and truck?

Yes. Profit by Region colors a U.S. map by margin per mile and lets you drill from region to domicile to truck to driver, with the P&L per mile for each region, domicile, and truck. FedEx authorized chargebacks land on the truck they belong to, and you can group domiciles into your own regions or use the FedEx regions.

Does FAST help with the Kentucky occupational license tax?

For the Louisville Metro and Lexington-Fayette districts, yes. Local Tax Miles measures your trucks’ time and miles inside each district from ELD GPS and works out the share of trip revenue and driver pay earned there, ready to hand to your accountant or payroll provider. It isn’t a tax return or tax advice: the return is still theirs to file.

How current are the numbers?

They update as the work happens — finalize a pay run or log a repair and the profit picture reflects it, instead of waiting for a month-end close.

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