Find the empty miles hiding in your network.
The 30–45% of drive time that generates zero revenue — we rank it, quantify it, and show you exactly where to recover it. In 30 days.
A 30-day audit that fingerprints every empty mile in your network.
ATRI puts industry-average deadhead at 16.7%. That number only counts empty trailer miles between loads. When you measure loaded drive time as a share of total drive time — the metric that actually reflects asset utilization — the real number for most fleets is 30–45%. Bobtails. Stem time. Relay repositioning. Out-of-route miles to pickup. None of it generates revenue, all of it burns fuel, driver hours, and asset life.
MarginHaul ingests 14 months of your TMS exports, IFTA reports, driver settlements, and customer contracts. We classify every non-revenue mile by root cause — imbalanced lane pairs, dispatch sequencing gaps, excessive stem to specific shippers, drop-yard layout, dwell-time penalties — and rank each cause by recoverable dollar value.
The output is a ranked playbook with named accounts, named lanes, and named decisions. Not a slide deck. A 90-day implementation matrix, prioritized by effort-to-impact ratio, backed by our Findings Promise: if our Phase 1 diagnostic doesn't surface enough value to substantiate Phase 2, we tell you not to engage Phase 2.
What you walk away with.
Four tangible artifacts, each defensible at the executive level. Built from your data, not industry averages.
Ranked root-cause analysis
Every non-revenue mile classified into 5–8 root cause categories, each with a recoverable dollar value. Imbalanced lane pairs, stem time, relay repositioning, dispatch sequencing, dwell.
Lane-level & driver-level heatmaps
Every corridor scored and ranked by non-revenue percentage and recoverable value. Driver-level utilization patterns surface the dispatch behaviors costing the most.
90-day implementation playbook
10–15 specific actions, each scored by effort, timeline, and dollar impact. Includes recommended account renegotiations, lane consolidation moves, and dispatch policy changes.
ROI projection & Findings Promise
A defensible annual recovery number you can take to your CFO. Every engagement opens with a fixed-fee diagnostic. Findings Promise: if our Phase 1 diagnostic doesn't surface enough value to substantiate Phase 2, we tell you not to engage Phase 2.
How the 30-day engagement works.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed price. We move fast because we built the tools.
Data intake
14 months of TMS data, IFTA reports, driver settlement records, and top-20 customer contracts through our secure intake portal. Zero IT lift.
Fingerprint & diagnose
Every non-revenue mile classified by root cause. Driver-level and lane-level heatmaps. The 3–5 corridors responsible for 60%+ of all empty driving identified.
Model & build playbook
Combinatorial optimization on lane pairing. Every recommendation scored by effort, timeline, and dollar impact. The 14-action implementation matrix takes shape.
Executive readout
Findings presented to CEO, VP Ops, and dispatch leadership. Ranked playbook handed off. ROI projection delivered, with our Findings Promise governing whether we recommend Phase 2.
Want a rough number before you talk to us?
The ROI Calculator runs on industry benchmarks and your fleet inputs. Five fields, no sign-up. The audit replaces those benchmarks with your actual numbers.
Run the math on your fleet in 90 seconds.
Truck count, average annual miles, your TMS-reported deadhead percentage. The calculator applies the 30-45% loaded-drive-time correction and shows your annual recoverable value range.
See it in action.
We recently applied this methodology to a 120-truck Southeast dry van carrier’s operational data. The analysis identified $2.8M in recoverable annual value across five root causes, ranked by dollar impact.
120-truck SE carrier · 36% → 14% · $2.8M identified
Five root causes ranked. Two account renegotiations, a drop-yard consolidation, and dispatch-aware reset planning together closed 22 points of non-revenue time.