As a trucking carrier owner or dispatcher, you may be leaving significant detention and accessorial charges uncollected. Use this calculator to estimate your potential savings based on industry averages and your own operational data. This is an estimate, not a guarantee, and is grounded in the latest detention time surveys from OOIDA and ATRI.
Enter your own numbers. The rate and collection-rate fields are pre-filled from real published industry data (cited below) -- change them to match your own operation.
This is an estimate based on the numbers you enter and the industry averages cited above -- not a guarantee of what any specific carrier will recover. Sources: OOIDA Foundation 2023 Detention Time Survey; ATRI 2024 driver detention study.
Trucks times average weekly detention hours times 52 weeks times your detention rate gives the total detention value your fleet is likely eligible for in a year. That figure times your current collection rate gives what you are likely already collecting; the difference is the estimated uncollected amount.
The $45/hour default rate comes from the OOIDA Foundation's 2023 Detention Time Survey (the average for leased owner-operators). The 45% default collection rate comes from the American Transportation Research Institute's 2024 driver detention study, which found 94.5% of fleets charge detention fees but fewer than 50% of those invoices are actually paid.
No -- this calculator uses general industry averages as a starting point. Your own agreed detention rates and free-time terms vary by broker and shipper, which is exactly why applying the correct terms to each specific claim matters.
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