For owner-operators, fleets & dispatchers

Know your worth
on EVERY LOAD.

RateAnchor turns your real operating costs into a rate you can defend — and tells you in one tap whether a broker's offer is actually worth it.

Coming to iOS & Android See what's inside
3quote modes
8equipment types
100%offline & private
ATLANTA, GA → MIAMI, FL Box Truck · 662 mi
$1,520
GREAT
Break-even
$974
Fair
$1,314
Ideal
$1,509
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Watch the needle and verdict respond in real time.
The stakes

Most carriers don't fail on the road. They fail on the math.

Freight rates sat below the cost to operate for three straight years — the longest downturn trucking has ever seen. The carriers who couldn't see the gap on each load are the ones who didn't make it.

95%
of fleets run 10 trucks or fewer
The small operators with the least cushion when a load loses money.
9 in 10
new small carriers don't make it
The odds are brutal for owner-operators and small fleets — and thin margins are the reason why.
88,000+
carriers shut down in 2023 alone
Tens of thousands more have parked their trucks in the years since.

And it isn't letting up: carrier exits in the first half of 2026 are running about a third higher than a year earlier — and in 2024 the average truckload carrier ran a −2.3% operating margin. On average, hauling lost money.

Knowing your true rate and margin isn't back-office busywork — it's the strategy that keeps you in business. RateAnchor makes that number impossible to miss on every load, so you build a business instead of becoming a statistic. Make it the anchor your business holds to.

Sources: FMCSA carrier data; ATRI, Operational Costs of Trucking (2024); SONAR carrier revocation data via FreightWaves (2026); industry reporting, 2023–2026.

Why it matters

A load can look fine — and still lose you money.

A broker names a number. Most carriers accept or counter on feel. But "feels okay" isn't a cost sheet — and the gap is your paycheck. RateAnchor runs the numbers for you, so every rate you send is one you can stand behind.

A load that looked fine
Broker's offer$1,900
What it actually costs you
Fuel$620
Driver pay$560
Equipment & time$840
Your cost$2,020
You paid to haul it–$120
RateAnchor's call: REJECT — you're $120 under. Hold out for $2,100+.
How it works

One tool prices them all.

Van, box truck, reefer, flatbed, hotshot — and three ways to quote, because a partial and a liftgate load were never priced like a full run.

Full load
Standard line-haul, priced on your true cost per mile and the hours it ties up your truck — never below the going market rate for the lane.
Miles + time + market floor
Partial / LTL
Only taking part of the trailer? You're priced for your share of the load — never below the minimum it's worth to roll the truck.
Your share, with a floor
Liftgate & local
Pallet-jack and liftgate work is labor, not miles. Priced by pallets, weight, staging time, and the deadhead to the dock.
Labor + staging + deadhead
Inside the app

Everything you need to price with confidence.

The quote is just the start. RateAnchor is a full rate desk in your pocket — built for the road, not a desk.

RateAnchor quote screen showing the rate gauge and verdict
Instant verdict

Know in one tap.

Enter a load and see your break-even, a fair recommended rate, and a strong ideal — then read any broker's offer as Reject, Tight, Fair, or Great.

  • Market-anchored rates by equipment and lane
  • Rate per mile and per hour at a glance
  • Full, partial, and liftgate loads
RateAnchor rate message screen with tone options
Rate message

A rate you can defend, ready to send.

Turn any quote into a professional message — email or text — that lays out your rate and the real cost behind it. Choose a tone, copy, paste.

  • Four tones, from concise to detailed
  • Optional cost breakdown
  • Copies clean into any email or text
RateAnchor Decide screen with net profit and cost per mile
The full picture

See what a load really pays.

Beyond the quote: your true cost per mile, exactly what a load nets after deadhead and every expense, plus a load score and a coach to help you counter with data.

  • Net profit after deadhead and every cost
  • Compare loads by profit and dollars-per-day
  • A negotiation coach in your corner
Minimums built in
Every quote is floored at what it's worth to roll the truck — so you never quote yourself into a loss.
Full back office
Log loads, track lanes, set aside for taxes, reserve for maintenance, export to CSV.
Multiple trucks
Running a fleet? Keep costs and a profile for every truck.
Works offline
Everything runs on your phone — no signal needed at the dock.
Four languages
English, Spanish, Russian, and Punjabi — out of the box.
Private by design
No account, no tracking, no selling your data. Ever.
Fraud Shield

Don't haul for a ghost.

Broker fraud is at record highs — double-brokering, stolen identities, and "companies" that vanish before payday. Fraud Shield walks you through the red flags on any broker and links you straight to the FMCSA to verify them before you commit a single mile.

3,000+ failed ID checks
out of 15,000 accounts audited by one major load board — in a single quarter of 2026.
RateAnchor Fraud Shield screen
Grounded in reality

Built on real numbers, not guesses.

Every quote stands on data a broker can't argue with — because it comes from the real world, not a rule of thumb.

Live diesel pricing
Your fuel cost tracks the real national average — not a number you set months ago.
Market rate bands
Rates anchored to what your equipment and lane actually pay right now.
Your true cost per mile
Built from your trucks and your costs — down to the cent, not an industry average.
FMCSA broker checks
Verify who you're hauling for against the federal record, before you book.
Pricing

Start free. Go Pro when it pays for itself.

The quote engine is free for good. Pro unlocks the tools that turn a good rate into a running business.

Free
$0forever
No account, no card
  • Unlimited quotes — full, partial & liftgate
  • Break-even, fair & ideal rates
  • Instant offer verdict
  • One truck profile
  • Fraud Shield basics
  • Your last 5 loads
Get RateAnchor
14-day free trial
Pro
$5.99/ month
or $54.99 / year — save 23%
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Multiple trucks & fleets
  • Compare loads by profit & $/day
  • The full Decide toolkit
  • Rate message for brokers
  • Unlimited Fraud Shield & full back office
Founding Operator
A thank-you to our first carriers — limited at launch.
$59.99 once
Pro, for life
The road ahead

Built for the long haul.

RateAnchor is a long-term commitment to carriers. Here's what's coming after launch — free and Pro keep getting stronger.

In development
Live lane rates
Current market rates for your exact origin → destination, not just the equipment band.
In development
Sync across devices
Your trucks, costs, and load history — safely backed up and on every device you run.
Planned
Quote from your home screen
A widget and voice quoting, so you can price a load without even opening the app.
Questions

Straight answers.

Yes. Unlimited quoting on one truck, the market rate band, and Fraud Shield basics are free forever. Pro adds fleet tools, the full Decide toolkit, the rate message, and your back office.

No. RateAnchor runs entirely on your phone — no sign-up, no login, nothing to remember.

Yes. Everything works offline, so it's ready at the dock, the truck stop, or a dead zone.

They're built on your real operating costs and anchored to current market rates by equipment and lane — not a generic per-mile guess.

The rate message lays out your number and the real cost behind it in professional language. It reads as a business rate, not a demand — the kind of note a broker can take back to their customer.

Completely. No account, no third-party tracking, and we never sell your data. Optional usage analytics are anonymous and can be turned off with one tap.

Anchor your rates.
Keep your margin.

RateAnchor is coming to iOS & Android. Founding Operator pricing at launch — $59.99 once, Pro for life — for our first carriers only.

No spam — one email when it's live.