🚚 Trucking & Freight Tools
Hours-of-service clocks, axle-weight and bridge-formula checks, tyre load and pressure, load plans, stopping distances, grade descent, cost per mile, load-offer maths, pre-trip walkarounds and roadside breakdown triage. Written for drivers on both sides of the Atlantic — every tool carries US and EU/UK units, limits and rule references.
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⚖️ Axle Weight & Bridge Formula Checker
Type in the scale ticket. This checks every axle group and the federal bridge formula, then tells you which way to slide the fifth wheel or the tandems and how far — in inches and in holes — based ...
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🔧 Roadside Breakdown Triage
Something has gone wrong at the worst possible place. Pick the symptom and this walks you through what is safe to check, what each finding most likely means, whether you can carry on or stop, and e...
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💵 Cost Per Mile & Break-Even Rate
What a mile actually costs you to run — fixed costs spread over the miles you really do, plus fuel, tyres, maintenance and driver pay — and the rate per mile that leaves a profit rather than a stor...
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🕐 Driving Hours & Duty Clock Planner
How much driving have you actually got left, when is your break due, and what time does your day end? Pick your rule set, drop in the numbers from your log, and this shows every limit counting down...
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🏔️ Grade, Climb & Descent Calculator
What a grade actually means in degrees and feet, how fast your truck can hold it, and — the part that ends careers — how much heat a descent puts into your brakes, whether your retarder can carry i...
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📊 Load Offer Decider & Counter-Offer
Three offers on the table, one honest answer. Puts the deadhead into the rate, subtracts what the truck costs to run, turns it into money per hour, and tells you the exact number to ask for if the ...
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📦 Trailer Load & Pallet Planner
How many pallets fit, which way round, where the weight ends up on the axles, and what order to load them so the first drop is at the doors. Draws the floor plan as you type, offline, for a 53&rsqu...
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🧾 Pre-Trip Walkaround & DVIR Builder
A walkaround that follows the order you actually walk: paperwork, engine, cab and air brake tests, lights, tyres and brakes, coupling and trailer, securement. Tick what passes, flag what does not, ...
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🛑 Stopping Distance & Following Gap
Where your truck actually stops — thinking, brake lag and rubber on the road, added up — and the following gap in seconds that goes with it. Change the surface, the grade or the load and watch the ...
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🛞 Truck Tyre Load, Pressure & Temperature Check
Three checks a driver actually does: is this axle over its tyres' rating, is the pressure rise on the road normal or is something dragging, and do the tyres on a set of duals match closely enough t...
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