Per Hundred Weight

5.00cwt 40K = 2000.00

7.00cwt 40K = 2800.00

ect,ect,ect

 

Divide your freight weight by 100 to get your hundredweight (cwt).
Example: Load weighs 42,000 lbs, divided by 100 = 420 cwt

So 420 cwt is exactly the same as 42,000 lbs.

Does that help? Or still trying to equal this to your price per mile? Or something else?

 

Just remember to make sure the trailer will haul the weight / volume ratio before you quote.
Example ;
42,000 pounds of potatoes will fit in a trailer.
42,000 pounds of furniture will not. Too bulky
42,000 pounds of paper will fit in a trailer.
42,000 pounds of plastic bottles will not fit in a trailer.
Get the idea ?

 

.61x420= $256 plus fuel. I hope that's a short haul.

 

The load price is whatever the market will bear, just like mileage.

 

OK. Do this.Take whatever you want charge the customer. Deduct whatever the fuel surchage is. ( this is something you must agree on how to figure, there are different ways of figuring ). Take however much is left, divide by 433.61 ( that is number of cwt. ). That is your rate per cwt.