Put the whole trip on one line
Start with the miles your carrier will pay and the exact mileage rate. Paid miles may be practical, dispatched, household-goods, or another carrier-defined number, so they may not match the odometer.
Add only compensation you expect to qualify for: stop pay, detention, hooks or other activity pay, separately paid hourly work, layover, bonuses, and other accessorials. The calculator totals those items with mileage pay to estimate gross compensation.
Two useful comparison numbers
Effective CPM divides total gross by paid miles. Effective hourly pay divides it by the on-duty hours entered. Those numbers make trips easier to compare when one has more accessorial work or waiting time. When paid miles are zero, effective CPM is reported as zero instead of pretending fixed pay came from mileage.
Example
Five hundred paid miles at $0.6825 produces $341.25 in mileage pay. Add $50 in stops, $27 detention, $36 activity pay, $40 hourly work, a $100 layover, and a $50 bonus. Gross pay is $644.25. Over 15 on-duty hours, that is $42.95 per hour. The projections extend the entered daily average across the selected workdays and paid weeks.
The result is gross pay, not take-home pay. It does not subtract taxes, benefits, retirement contributions, insurance, garnishments, or other deductions, and it cannot determine whether a carrier will approve a particular accessorial.