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Truckload Revenue per Truck per Week: Fleet Productivity Explained

Truckload revenue per truck per week measures weekly revenue productivity per tractor, helping investors combine rate, utilization, and fleet sizing into one operating metric.

By Lee BaileyPublished Sep 18, 2026

Truckload revenue per truck per week measures the average weekly trucking revenue generated per tractor under the issuer's reporting definition.

It is one of the clearest measures of truckload fleet productivity because it combines pricing and miles generated by each truck.

Revenue per truck per week combines rate and utilization

A simplified relationship is:

revenue per truck per week ≈ revenue per mile × miles per truck per week

Werner reported average Truckload Transportation Services revenue per truck per week of $5,053 in the second quarter of 2026, up 9.1% year over year.

Schneider reported total Truckload revenue per truck per week of $4,162, up from $3,964 a year earlier.

Marten reported first-quarter 2026 Truckload revenue, net of fuel surcharges, per tractor per week of $4,425.

Fuel surcharge treatment matters

Many carriers exclude fuel surcharge revenue when presenting this metric.

That makes the measure more useful for analyzing core freight economics, but only when the exclusion is consistent.

Comparing an ex-fuel metric with an all-in revenue metric would mix fuel-price pass-through with underlying freight productivity.

Dedicated and one-way operations can differ

Dedicated fleets operate under customer-specific arrangements and often have different route density, pricing, and utilization from one-way or network truckload operations.

Werner reported materially different revenue-per-truck trends between Dedicated and One-Way Truckload in 2026.

Schneider likewise reports Dedicated and Network productivity separately.

A consolidated average can therefore move because the business mix changes.

Revenue per truck is not profit per truck

Higher weekly revenue can still come with weaker profitability if wages, insurance, maintenance, purchased transportation, depreciation, or other costs rise faster.

Investors should use the metric as a revenue-productivity measure, not a profit measure.

Primary-source examples

Truckload revenue per truck per week is most useful as a fleet-productivity measure combining rate and truck utilization.

Part of the Truckload Freight Operating Model

Connect fleet size, loaded trip length, empty miles, weekly utilization, revenue per mile, and revenue per truck to understand truckload productivity.

How the model fits together
  • Fleet utilization: Average trucks multiplied by miles per truck per week and weeks in the period form a useful fleet-mile framework. Empty-mile percentage shows how much mileage does not carry freight, while loaded trip length helps explain network mix.
  • Movement monetization: Revenue per total mile monetizes fleet movement, while revenue per truck per week combines utilization and yield into a per-tractor productivity measure. Neither measure is a complete profit measure.

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