Mkhonto Resources • Freight Profitability Analysis
Know the route.
Know the real margin.
Test domestic and cross-border haulage opportunities using operational cost, fuel, production and break-even calculations built for South African bulk transport.
- Live per-load profitability
- Daily, weekly and monthly trips
- Break-even R/tonne and R/km
- Tolls, border, surcharges and standing time
- LOI document intake
Enter the client’s offered rate. The analysis compares its revenue with your full transport cost and shows the actual profit, revenue margin and return on cost.
The 34-ton payload is a planning default, not a legal loading allowance. Confirm the actual permitted payload against the truck and trailer tare, manufacturer ratings, axle limits and weighbridge records.
Daily trips per truck are whole completed trips. Weekly and monthly entries may be averages. Switching tabs converts the same plan using operating days and 52 weeks / 12 average months. Forecast cards and all financial calculations retain the utilisation-adjusted averages without converting them to whole loads.
Monthly profit and fixed cost per load use the fleet-wide monthly target when it is above 0. A target above the utilisation-adjusted fleet forecast is still costed, but it is flagged as operationally unachievable.
For a VAT-exclusive profitability result, enter the transport rate and every recoverable operating cost excluding VAT. Use one consistent tax basis throughout; the calculator cannot infer whether a supplier amount includes recoverable VAT.
Current toll cost used in each completed trip: R 0. Customer surcharges increase invoiced revenue; operating surcharges increase the required quote.
No standing-time fee is due until the delay exceeds 24 hours. At the default terms, the pro-rata rate is R 250,00 per hour per truck.
PDF, DOCX, Excel, CSV, TXT, JPG, PNG, WebP or a live camera scan. The system reads the document and fills matching fields automatically.
Transparent calculation basis
Every kilometre and cost is accounted for.
The model recovers the loaded leg and empty return, fuel by leg, route-specific tolls, border costs, surcharges, pro-rata standing time, distance-based wear, and each active truck's monthly fixed costs before calculating profit, trip capacity, break-even and target-margin rates per trip, tonne and kilometre.
Confirm whether each LOI distance is a one-way quote, separate loaded and empty legs, or a total round trip. Enter verified diesel, toll, border, surcharge and standing-time terms. A quoted toll with no stated per-leg or full-trip basis is held out until confirmed, and transporter-funded startup fuel on a client-fuel contract is charged once to first-month cash flow. Defaults are editable planning assumptions, not live tariffs.