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Freight Rate Quote
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-21
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-fleet
Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is profitable. Use when asked to quote a freight rate, price a lane, work out cost per mile, decide whether to accept a load, or explain why a lane is losing money. Produces the fully-loaded cost per mile, the lane economics including empty miles, the accessorial schedule, the break-even and target rate, and the accept-or-decline recommendation.
🗣 Say this to your agent
“Quote a rate for a lane from Manchester to Glasgow”“What is our actual cost per mile?”“Should we take this load at this rate?”“Why is this lane losing money?”“How do I price detention so we actually get paid?”
What to give it
▸The lane — origin, destination, distance, and frequency
▸The load — weight, commodity, equipment type, and any special requirements
▸Your cost base — fixed costs per vehicle, and variable costs per mile
▸The reload position — what typically comes out of the destination market, and how long it takes to find
▸The terms — payment days, detention terms, fuel surcharge basis, and who the customer is
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Cost per mile includes both fixed and variable, with overhead allocated
✓Annual miles are realistic rather than optimistic
✓Deadhead miles at both ends are included in the lane cost
✓Time cost is considered, not just distance
✓Detention terms specify the evidence needed to collect
✓The reload position at destination is factored into the decision
✓Break-even is stated and the recommendation respects it
✓Sensitivity to fuel, detention and reload delay is shown
⚠️ What it refuses to do
**Quoting on loaded miles only.** The empty miles are the ones that lose the money.
**Optimistic utilisation.** Understates fixed cost per mile across every quote you make.
**Ignoring the destination market.** A great rate into a dead area is a bad load.
**Detention with no evidence requirement.** Priced, billed, disputed, written off.
**Forgetting overhead.** Dispatch, admin and premises are real and must be carried.
📚 Ships with
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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