KSM Transport Advisors (KSMTA) is pleased to announce the launch of the FreightMath™ website at FreightMath.com. The site brings together the full FreightMath platform and its companion products in one place, making precision freight analytics accessible to any truckload carrier that wants to understand what their network is actually producing.
The platform is live, and a 30-day free trial is now available. It's time to answer one critical question: Which loads are actually making money?
Why Truckload Carriers Need Better Profitability Intelligence
Even today, trucking runs mainly on instinct. Rate decisions are made with spreadsheets, gut feelings, and hope. Carriers price lanes based on what a competitor charged two years ago. Customers are renewed because the relationship is good, not because the freight is.
FreightMath exists to change that. The platform applies precision Activity-Based Costing (ABC) to every load, lane, customer, and driver in a carrier's network. The output is not a report. It is a P&L for the freight network, one that shows clearly and without ambiguity where the business is making money and where it is giving money away.
FreightMath.com is the home of the platform, where carriers can explore the methodology, discover the product suite, and start a free trial.
A Complete Ecosystem for Truckload Intelligence
The FreightMath Platform
The FreightMath platform uses the proprietary FreightMath OR methodology to measure profitability across every load, lane, customer, and driver. Visitors can explore how FreightMath OR is calculated — including Core OR, Inbound OR, Outbound OR, and FreightMath OR — and what each dimension reveals about a carrier's network. An interactive cost model lets users adjust miles, hours, revenue, and costs to see the impact on operating ratio in real time.
This is more than a feature list. It is the FreightMath methodology brought to life, allowing carriers to experience its value before starting a free trial.
Five Products, One Platform
The FreightMath ecosystem includes five integrated solutions:
- FreightMath: The base ABC platform and OR analytics engine. Load-level profitability across every lane, customer, and driver in the network.
- MapLedger: GL mapping and data standardization. Transforms a carrier's general ledger into a trusted, standardized cost structure that FreightMath can use.
- FreightMarks: Industry benchmarking for truckload carriers. OR, revenue per mile, empty miles, driver pay, and fuel, normalized against a real peer set, not an industry average.
- Quality of Freight: Truckload buy/sell due diligence for investment bankers, private equity sponsors, lenders, and strategic buyers. Customer concentration, lane durability, network balance, and freight at risk.
- BidRight: Bid automation built for asset-based carriers. A Nussbaum Technology product powered by FreightMath cost data, replacing spreadsheet-based RFP processes with a defensible, collaborative bid workspace.
The FreightMath OR Methodology
A dedicated methodology page explains the four-part operating ratio that distinguishes FreightMath from per-mile and per-load costing tools. Core OR measures the load itself, one-way profitability from origin to destination. Inbound OR accounts for the probability and cost of finding freight into the origin market. Outbound OR captures the value of being able to exit the destination. FreightMath OR combines these factors into a complete, network-aware measure of profitability.
The methodology page makes one point clear: a load that appears profitable on its own may actually destroy network value once inbound and outbound positioning are factored into the equation. A carrier that ignores this math is not pricing freight — it is guessing.
The FreightMath Alliance
The FreightMath Alliance is a carrier community organized around shared data, mutual benchmarking, and deliberate network improvement. Alliance carriers gain access to FreightMarks benchmarking against a private peer cohort and participate in a structured program of data exchange and review. Program details and membership information are at FreightMath.com/alliance.
Insights
The Insights section features ongoing articles on freight profitability, methodology, market trends, and operating strategy.
Who Should Use FreightMath
FreightMath is built for truckload carriers that want to make better decisions with their own data. The platform is most valuable for carriers operating 50 or more trucks with a TMS and a general ledger — the two data inputs the system requires.
It is also relevant for investors, lenders, and advisors who work with truckload carriers. The Quality of Freight product is purpose-built for freight network due diligence. If you are evaluating a carrier, buying it, lending to it, or advising on it, FreightMath.com explains what the analysis covers and how to get started.
What Carriers Are Saying
"FreightMath allows us to drill deep into lanes and markets to clearly see what works and doesn't, making our decisions strategic."
John Pemberton — President, Pemberton Truck Lines
"Before FreightMath, explaining costs to clients was difficult. Now, data speaks for itself."
Michael McGovern — COO, Leonard's Express
"Through FreightMath, KSMTA has helped institutionalize disciplined freight selection and optimization."
Danny Crooks — VP Corporate Transportation, Averitt Express
Start Your Free 30-Day Trial
The 30-day free trial is available at FreightMath.com. No commitment. Full platform access. A KSMTA analyst will help configure your cost model using your TMS data and GL so the first output you see reflects your network, not a template.
The freight market in 2026 does not reward guessing. Carriers that know their network lane by lane and load by load are the ones positioned to grow it deliberately. FreightMath is the tool that makes that possible.