Logistics & Transportation

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Dispatch / TMSTelematicsFuel cardsAccountingYourdatabase$10.1M a yearest. lost to empty miles$1.52M savedest., if you fix 15%
Today

Your numbers live in four places.

Southline Freight runs on Dispatch / TMS, Telematics, Fuel cards and Accounting. None of them talk to each other.

Step 1 · Collect

We connect them. Read-only.

Secure pipes copy the data automatically. Nothing changes in your tools.

Step 2 · Clean

Names match. Duplicates go.

Everything lands in one private database, checked every time it updates.

Step 3 · See

The leak shows up.

Miles driven with an empty trailer: an estimated $10.1M a year for this sample company — worst at Savannah. Illustrative, from sample data.

Step 4 · Act

Fix a slice. Keep the money.

Fixing just 15% is worth $1.52M a year.

numarket's first year costs $160K. Try your own numbers below.

Your numbers

Run the math yourself.

Illustrative estimate · typical company · 12 months

Miles driven with an empty trailer

An empty truck costs the same per mile — fuel, driver, wear — but earns nothing.

Worst at Savannah.

5,154,577Empty miles
$1.97Cost per mile
$10.1MLost per year
$10.1MLost per year
15%
$1.52MSaved per year
Saved per year$1.52M
numarket Command plan (Large), first year$160K

At 15%, it pays for itself in about 1 month.

How we'd fix it: Empty miles by terminal and lane, so dispatch can book loads for the trip back.

Illustrative estimate for a typical company in this industry
How we estimated this
  • A made-up larger company (Southline Freight) with 5 terminals and 12 months of generated sample records. Not a real client.
  • Empty miles: 5,154,577 × cost per mile: $1.97 = $10.1M a year.
  • “Fix 15%” assumes you recover 15% of the loss. You can change that share in the calculator.
  • Your real numbers will differ. The free Readiness Check runs the same math on your data.
The dashboard

What your team would see.

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Southline Freight · WorkspaceSample data
60 monthly records
Cost per mile
$1.97
▼ from $1.98 vs. prior 12 mo
Empty miles
14.8%
▼ from 15.0% vs. prior 12 mo
On-time deliveries
93.0%
▼ from 93.1% vs. prior 12 mo
Detention hours
22,923 hrs
▲ 3.5% vs. prior 12 mo
Cost per mile: budget vs. actual
$1.88$1.90$1.92$1.94$1.96$1.98$2.00Sep '25Nov '25Jan '26Mar '26May '26Jul '26Aug '26
Operating cost by category
  • Driver pay$30.2M
  • Fuel$23.2M
  • Maintenance$9.01M
  • Tolls & fees$6.17M
Action item · Book backhauls out of Savannah

Savannah ran 1,564,315 empty miles (20.9%) — about $3.29M in cost with no revenue. Cost per mile is $2.10 against a $1.90 budget.

Owner: Dispatch leadDue: Next 2 weeks

What your team does differently

Dispatch and operations work from the same numbers.

Effort for you
Moderate
First dashboard
6–10 weeks
Plan setup from
$40,000 · Command plan
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Load status

What the manager sees — right away

Sample
  • L-20917 (Savannah): Waiting at dock12 min ago
  • L-20922 (Atlanta): Delivered on time24 min ago

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