Truck Layover Fee Calculator
Calculate overnight layover compensation when a truck is held to the next day — daily fees plus driver costs.
Set a tier's days to 0 to mean “all remaining days”.
Layover bills per night, not per hour — once detention rolls past the point the load can't deliver same-day, the meter changes from hourly to nightly.
With your numbers: 1 days − 0 free = 1 chargeable days = 1×$350 + $120 = $470 per truck.
Sources & references
- Rate confirmation layover clauses (industry norms)
- FMCSA HOS rules — why a lost dock window loses the day
Demurrage, detention and storage tariffs are set by each carrier, terminal and contract and change frequently. The preloaded figures are editable industry-typical examples, not quotes — always verify against the current published tariff or your service contract before paying or disputing an invoice.
Detention measures hours; layover measures nights. When a facility holds a truck so long that the load physically can't proceed — the dock closed, the driver's hours ran out, the receiver said 'tomorrow' — compensation switches from an hourly accessorial to a nightly one, conventionally $250–$500 per night plus the driver's out-of-pocket costs.
About Truck Layover Fee Calculator
The defaults model $350 for the first nights rising to $450, plus a fixed $120 per-diem line for the driver's motel and meals — the structure most rate confirmations use when they address layover at all. Zero free nights is correct: by definition a layover only exists once the day was already lost. Layover and detention interact: a clean claim bills detention hours up to the point the day became unrecoverable, then layover for the night, then (if morning drags) detention again. Documenting the pivot — the facility's 'come back tomorrow', the closed-dock timestamp, the HOS clock state — is what separates a paid layover from an argument about whether it was just long detention.
How to use Truck Layover Fee Calculator
- 1Enter nights held over and how many trucks are affected.
- 2Set your free days and edit the tariff tiers to match the published tariff or your contract — every figure is editable.
- 3Read the per-tier breakdown and the worked example showing exactly how the total is built, day by day.
- 4Change the inputs to compare scenarios (pick up now vs later) before the charges harden into an invoice.
Why use Truck Layover Fee Calculator?
- ✓Per-tier breakdown mirrors how carrier and terminal billing systems itemise invoices
- ✓Every figure — free time, tier days, rates — is editable to match any published tariff
- ✓Instant what-if comparisons before charges harden into an invoice
- ✓Free and private — all math runs in your browser
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between layover and detention?+
Detention compensates waiting measured in hours within an operating day; layover compensates the lost night when the truck is held to the next day. Rates reflect it: detention runs ~$50–$100/hr while layover runs ~$250–$500 flat per night plus driver costs — roughly what the truck's day was worth.
Who decides when detention becomes layover?+
Operations reality, evidenced in writing: the facility's instruction to return tomorrow, a dock that closed with the truck in queue, or an HOS clock that expired because of the wait. Send the broker written notice at that pivot moment — the contemporaneous message is the claim's foundation.
Does layover include the driver's hotel and meals?+
Commonly yes, as an itemised addition — $100–$150 per-diem or actual receipts. Some carriers fold it into a higher flat fee instead. The fixed-fee line in this calculator models it separately because itemised claims with receipts attached get paid faster than padded round numbers.
Can a layover happen on a TONU?+
Yes — truck arrives late afternoon, load isn't ready, facility says tomorrow, and tomorrow it's cancelled. That's a layover plus a TONU: one compensates the lost night, the other the dead load. Bill both with the timeline; they're distinct losses from the same failure.
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