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DAT RateView, part of DAT iQ from DAT Freight & Analytics, is a paid subscription tool that reports average spot and contract freight rates per lane, drawn from a large database of real freight invoices and transactions rather than posted bids, with day, week, and multi-month history. It answers a market question: what has this lane been paying, across many carriers, lately.
That makes it the right tool for one job: checking whether a posted rate is competitive against what the market has actually been paying on this lane. This page does not do that job, and does not try to. It has no rate database, no lane history, and no idea what any other carrier got paid this week — it only knows what you type in about this truck.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| Does this offer cover my fuel, truck note, insurance, and this week's deadhead? | This calculator — enter this week's miles, fuel, and fixed costs, get a break-even loaded rate in seconds, no signup. |
| Is this offer high, low, or average for what this lane has been paying lately? | DAT RateView or a similar market-rate tool — that reads real transaction data across many carriers, which this page never collects or sees. |
| What did this lane pay last week, or over the last 90 days? | DAT RateView's own history — this calculator keeps no history between visits and stores nothing about past weeks or past loads. |
| Does a deadhead-heavy week and factoring still leave a posted rate above my own cost? | This calculator — the deadhead-adjusted break-even rate and factoring math are built for exactly that question, and a market-average tool does not know your deadhead at all. |
The two are not substitutes, and using only one leaves a real gap. A load that DAT RateView shows as paying at or above the lane average can still be a losing week if the deadhead getting into position is long, the truck note is high, or the diesel price ran up. A load that shows below the lane average can still clear this truck's break-even easily on a short, efficient week. Market position and personal break-even are answers to different questions, and a rate can pass one test and fail the other in either direction.
This calculator needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off. It has no lane database because it is not trying to be one.
They answer different questions. DAT RateView is a paid subscription product from DAT Freight & Analytics that reports average spot and contract rates per lane, built from a large database of real freight invoices and transactions with day-by-day and multi-month history. It tells you what a lane has been paying across the market. This page is a free, instant calculator: type in one week's miles, fuel, truck note, and insurance, and see the all-in cost per mile and the break-even loaded rate for that week, right now, with no signup. It has no market data at all and does not know what other carriers are getting paid on this lane — it only knows what this truck costs to run. A rate can be at or above the market average DAT reports and still lose money on a deadhead-heavy week, and a rate can be below the market average and still clear this truck's cost on a short, efficient one. Checking market position and checking your own break-even are two separate questions, and neither answers the other.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DAT Freight & Analytics or DAT RateView. DAT and DAT RateView are trademarks of their owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not, based on DAT's own public description of the RateView product.
Open the Owner Operator Cost Per Mile Calculator to run this week's numbers.