Compare your surcharge with a fixed quote.
The same loads. Two ways to price them. Compare what your customer pays and what you keep.
Your numbers · 40 loads · 4 weeks
One route. Two ways to price it.
Your customer’s bill stayed at $1,500 a load while the surcharge customer paid up to $1,583. Holding the price cost you $1,250.
Diesel jumped, so Hedjee paid you $2,083 after week 4, for a $67 fee.
How it’s worked out
Your customer’s bill today is your all-in rate times your miles. With a surcharge, the fuel part of that bill moves: (diesel − $1.25) ÷ your MPG for each loaded mile, updated weekly from the week before’s price. With a fixed quote, the bill never moves.
Diesel climbs to the new price over two weeks and holds there: today’s price in week 1, half the jump in week 2, the full jump in weeks 3 and 4. Both trucks burn the same fuel, so “you keep” is the load pay left after fuel.
Hedjee protects every gallon you burn over the four weeks for 2¢ each. After week 4 it pays you the difference between the four-week average diesel price and today’s price on each gallon. Illustrative, not a quote.
Hold your price. When diesel jumps, Hedjee pays the difference.
Your customer gets one flat number. You stop eating the fuel spike.
Pick the gallons you want protected and pay a small fee on each. If diesel jumps, Hedjee pays you the difference. No margin account, no cash deposit.
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FAQ
How is the surcharge worked out?
The common formula: the weekly diesel price minus $1.25, divided by your truck’s MPG, per loaded mile. At $6.00 diesel and 6 MPG that is about 79¢ a mile. The calculator updates it every week using the week before’s price, the way most shippers bill it. OOIDA fuel-surcharge guide ↗
What should I enter as my all-in rate?
What the customer pays you per mile today with fuel included: linehaul plus today’s surcharge. If you quote by the load, divide the load price by the miles. The fixed quote holds that same bill for all four weeks.
What does “you keep” mean?
The load pay left after fuel over the four weeks. Your other costs are the same either way, so they are left out. On the fixed-quote side it also adds what Hedjee paid you and takes off the fee.
How does Hedjee fit in?
You pick the gallons you want protected and pay a 2¢ fee on each up front. If the average diesel price over the period ends above today’s price, Hedjee pays you the difference on those gallons after it ends. No margin account, no cash deposit.
Is this a forecast?
No. You pick how far diesel jumps, from 25¢ to $2.00, and the calculator shows both ways to price the same route. It is an illustration, not a quote.