01What to bid
Most owner-operators cannot tell you what a mile costs them. That is not a criticism — nobody hands you the number, and working it out by hand on a Sunday is its own job.
Inteleri runs your loads, your fuel, your maintenance and your settlements, so the number falls out on its own. You get a floor you can defend on the phone, per lane, with the math behind it. Not a market average. Yours.
- Your real cost per mile, from loads you actually ran
- A floor rate per lane, with what it is built from
- Permits and route checked before you commit, not at the scale house
02Who not to haul for
In an Overdrive survey of 500-plus owner-operators and small fleets, half had been stiffed for an entire load. Around $4 billion has gone missing to double-brokering in the last few years, and most of it came out of small carriers.
Before you book, Inteleri checks who you are dealing with against the federal record and against your own history with them. After you deliver, it tracks what they actually paid and how long they took — so the second load is a decision, not a hope.
- Operating authority checked against the FMCSA record
- Your own paid/not-paid and days-to-pay history, kept automatically
- Patterns that get sharper as more carriers run on the system