📅 Last updated: June 2026·Billing estimation only · CAD · user-entered rates · no industry rates baked in
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🇨🇦 Canadian Accessorial Charges Calculator
Build an accessorial charge total for a Canadian freight invoice in CAD — add line items for TONU, layover, tarping, stop-offs, redelivery, reweigh, or any other charge — with optional GST/HST and an invoice-ready total. Uses only the accessorial types, quantities, and rates you enter. Not legal, tax, or compliance advice.
📋 Load Reference — Optional
Optional. Displayed in the results summary.
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📋 Accessorial Line Items
Accessorial Type
Qty
Rate / Unit (CAD)
Subtotal
💵 GST / HST
%
Enter your own tax rate. This calculator does not embed any provincial or federal GST/HST rate. Whether tax applies and at what rate is a tax determination — confirm with your accountant or tax advisor.
📈 Accessorial Total — Invoice Estimate
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Grand Total (CAD)0 lines
Accessorial Subtotal (before tax)—
GST/HST (0% — your entered rate)—
Grand Total (CAD)—
Billing estimation only — not legal, tax, compliance, or financial advice. This calculator uses the accessorial types, quantities, and rates you enter to calculate a total. It does not provide legal, tax, compliance, or financial advice. It does not determine whether any charge is valid, enforceable, or contractually owed. Confirm actual accessorial charges, tax obligations, and payment terms with your contracts, accountant, tax professional, or qualified advisor.
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How the accessorial charge total is calculated
This tool uses only the accessorial types, quantities, and rates you enter to build a freight invoice accessorial total in CAD. It does not embed, suggest, or quote any standard industry, government, or regulatory accessorial rate. Every line item reflects your own entered values.
Per-line subtotal
For each line item you add, the subtotal is calculated from your entered quantity and rate per unit in CAD:
Line subtotal = quantity × rate per unit (CAD) — based on your entered rate
Accessorial subtotal
The accessorial subtotal is the sum of all per-line subtotals for every line item you have entered:
Accessorial subtotal = sum of all (quantity × rate per unit) across all line items
GST/HST — your entered rate only
If you enable the GST/HST toggle and enter a rate, the tax amount is calculated using only your entered percentage:
This calculator does not embed any provincial or federal GST/HST rate. Whether GST/HST applies to a specific accessorial charge and at what rate depends on your tax situation and the nature of the charge. Confirm with your accountant or a qualified tax advisor.
Grand total
Grand total (CAD) = accessorial subtotal + GST/HST amount (if entered)
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Formula (your entered values only)
Line subtotal
your entered quantity × your entered rate per unit (CAD)
number of line items with entered quantity and rate
Important: All accessorial types, quantities, and rates in this tool are entered by you. No standard, industry, or government accessorial rate is embedded, suggested, or quoted. This tool does not determine whether any charge is valid, enforceable, or contractually owed. Confirm actual accessorial charges, tax obligations, and payment terms with your contracts, accountant, tax professional, or qualified advisor.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an accessorial charge in trucking?
An accessorial charge is a billing line item added to a freight invoice for services or circumstances beyond the standard linehaul. Common examples include a truck order not used (TONU), layover, tarping, stop-off charge, redelivery, reweigh, lumper fee, or fuel surcharge. This calculator lets you enter each accessorial as its own line item with a label, quantity, and rate per unit in CAD, and totals them into an invoice-ready accessorial subtotal.
Does this calculator use any industry or standard accessorial rates?
No. This calculator does not embed any standard, industry, or government accessorial rates. Every accessorial type label, quantity, and rate per unit is entered by you. All calculations use only your entered values. Whether a charge is valid, enforceable, or contractually owed is not determined by this tool — confirm actual rates and terms with your carrier agreement, broker contract, or qualified advisor.
How is the per-line subtotal calculated?
The per-line subtotal equals your entered quantity multiplied by your entered rate per unit in CAD. No minimum rates, standard rates, or industry defaults are applied. Each line uses only the values you enter for that row.
How is GST/HST calculated?
If you enable the GST/HST toggle, you enter your own tax rate percentage. The GST/HST amount is calculated as: accessorial subtotal multiplied by your entered rate percentage divided by 100. This calculator does not embed any provincial or federal GST/HST rate. Whether GST/HST applies to any specific charge and at what rate is a tax determination — confirm with your accountant or tax advisor.
How many line items can I add?
You can add as many line items as you need. Click “Add Line Item” to add a new row and click the remove button (×) on any row to delete it. The accessorial subtotal and grand total update when you click “Calculate Accessorial Total.”
Is this calculator different from the Detention Pay Calculator?
Yes. The Canadian Detention Pay Calculator is purpose-built for calculating detention time — it takes hours held, free time, your hourly detention rate, billing increment, and admin fee to produce a detention charge. This Accessorial Charges Calculator is a general-purpose line-item builder for any accessorial type on a freight invoice. You can use both: calculate your detention charge in the Detention Pay Calculator, then enter that total as a line item here alongside other accessorials on the same invoice.
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