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Detention cost calculator
Put in your own numbers. See roughly what trucks waiting past free time cost you in a month and a year. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Trucks per day
inbound + outbound
Average time on site
gate to departure
Free time allowed
before detention starts
Detention rate
what carriers bill you
Days open per month
shipping or receiving
ESTIMATED DETENTION · PER MONTH
$16,500
PER YEAR
$198,000
BILLABLE PER TRUCK0.5 hrs
BILLABLE HRS / MONTH220
That's 30 billable minutes on an average truck, every day you're open.
How this works: (average wait − free time) × detention rate × trucks per day × days open. It assumes every truck waits the average. In real life some leave early and some sit all day, so treat this as a rough size of the problem, not an invoice.
Want to know the real number instead of the average?
ROME times every truck from the gate to departure. In fifteen minutes we'll show you what that looks like for your dock and where the hours usually go.