AB FreightRate - Freight Metrics Calculators on Disc
Simple Operating Cost Software for Transport Operators
Get more than the website calculators with AB FreightRate. AB FreightRate is a simple 'Ready to Use' series of calculators providing all you need, to help estimate the cost of operating your vehicle. Calculate your freight rate for any job for any route and any distance between points A to B, in an easy to use format.
Just plug in your vehicle operating figures and see what the effects are on your costs and margin. There’s no need to think of all of your expenses or work out complicated cost impacts due to fuel increases, service, maintenance and tyre life.
AB FreightRate operates using a Microsoft® Excel platform to make it simple to use with securely hidden formulas.
Simple Estimation:
Plug in some figures to work out fast cost estimates per load / tonne / delivery / day / kilometre.
The simple estimation calculators include the calculators from the Freight Metrics website:
- Truck operating cost calculator
- Courier operating cost calculator
- Service and Maintenance calculators
- Driving Hours Planner (Australia Only)
- Cashflow Sheet Template to help you get started in monitoring your cashflow more accurately.
Detailed Estimation:
Assess costs & charges in more detail including annual depreciation and interest estimates.
To help get you going, the sheets are structured so that you only have to fill in the blanks with your estimated figures. The program does the rest and creates a more detailed estimate than the simple calculators as well as creating a Cash flow statement.
The calculators include greater detail including calculators for:
- Administration
- Administration Staff
- Depot and depot vehicles
- Depreciation estimate
- Semi-Automatic Cashflow sheet creation
- Simple Sensitivity of costs check
- Quotation Template
Cash Flow Statement:
The Cash flow statement is semi-automatically created from the detailed estimate. Simply adjust your billing & payment terms.
Sensitivity Analysis:
Simple assessment of the affects that a percentage increase/ decrease has on your operating costs including fuel cost, fuel burn rate, wages, interest rates, service or maintenance.