Mobilization Calculator — Stop Eating the Trip Home

Most contractors lose money on mobilization and don't even know it.

You charge for the haul out. You forget the trip home. You forget the truck payment, the trailer wear, the insurance — the stuff that doesn't show up as a fuel receipt but still comes straight out of your pocket.

This calculator fixes that.

Set your real cost-per-mile once — it builds it from your truck, trailer, fuel, and the miles you actually run (not the miles you think you run). Then every job is two numbers: miles and machines. Out comes a mobilization price that actually covers your costs and pays you.

What you get:

• Dead-simple quote screen — type 2 numbers, get your price
• A rate builder that catches the costs you've been eating
• Covers BOTH trips — mob AND demob (the one everybody forgets)
• Handles multiple machines on one job
• Built in Excel. No macros, no logins, no subscription. Open it and go.

Plug in a job and watch where your "$50 mobilization" was really costing you $300.

Real jobs. Real numbers. Real talk.

— DirtWork Dollars