🗓️ Last updated: June 2026·User-input estimate · CAD/USD · no live or government rates
🍁 Canada Tool · CAD/USD
🇨🇦 Canadian Cross-Border Load Profitability Calculator
See what a US-Canada cross-border load really nets in CAD. Enter your revenue and costs in USD or CAD, your own exchange rate, and any customs or border costs — get net profit in CAD, margin, profit per km, the FX impact, and a break-even exchange rate. No exchange rate or fees baked in; you enter your actual numbers.
🍁 Cross-Border Load Revenue
The agreed load pay. Pick the currency it is quoted/paid in.
Your actual bank/broker conversion rate — not a live or QuicklyFig rate. Used for every USD figure on this load.
Extra paid revenue on the load (detention, accessorials). Leave blank to skip.
💸 Costs (enter in CAD unless a currency is shown)
Your running cost for the trip in CAD (use the Cost Per KM tool to build it).
Diesel for the load in CAD. Enter separately or fold into operating cost.
Customs broker, clearance, eManifest (ACE/ACI), or admin cost you pay. Your figure — no duties or tariffs are calculated.
Bridge tolls, bonded fees, or any other border-related cost. Leave blank to skip.
⚙️ Optional — More Costs & Distance
If you broker or sub this load out, the carrier's pay. Pick its currency.
Cost of the empty leg to/from the border, if not already in operating cost.
Factoring or cross-border payment fee on this load, in CAD. Leave blank to skip.
Paid/loaded km. Enables profit per loaded km.
Empty km on the trip. Added to loaded km for profit per total km.
Shown on your result text only. Nothing is saved or sent.
Net Profit (CAD)
—CAD
total revenue minus total cost, all converted to CAD at your rate
Profit Margin
—%
net profit as a share of revenue in CAD
Revenue (CAD)
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Total Costs (CAD)
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Cross-Border Costs (CAD)
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Profit / Loaded km
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Profit / Total km
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Break-Even FX Rate
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Planning estimate only — not financial, tax, accounting, legal, customs, or transportation-compliance advice. This calculator uses the exchange rate and cost figures you enter. It does not provide current exchange rates and does not calculate customs duties, tariffs, GST/HST, customs charges, taxes, or regulatory fees. Exchange rates, customs/brokerage fees, and border costs change constantly and vary by provider and contract. Verify FX rates, border costs, contracts, and customs/tax obligations with your bank, a licensed customs broker, and your accountant. This tool uses no CRA, CBSA, IFTA, carbon, or government rates.
On US-Canada freight your revenue is often quoted in US dollars while your truck, fuel, and take-home are in Canadian dollars — and the border adds its own costs that a domestic load never sees. This calculator brings both currencies onto one CAD bottom line. You pick whether each amount is in CAD or USD, enter your own USD-to-CAD exchange rate, and add cross-border cost lines like customs brokerage, eManifest, and bridge tolls. It converts every US-dollar figure at the rate you enter and returns your net profit in CAD, your margin, profit per kilometre, the FX impact, and the exchange rate at which the load would break even.
Everything is user-entered: your revenue, your exchange rate, and every cost. Nothing is fetched, assumed, or hardcoded — there is no live exchange-rate lookup and no baked-in fee, because rates and border costs move constantly and differ by provider and contract. This tool also stays out of customs and tax: it does not calculate duties, tariffs, HS codes, or GST/HST. Those are the importer-of-record's regulated obligations, not part of a carrier's commercial load math.
Figure
Formula
USD amount → CAD
USD amount × your USD→CAD exchange rate
Revenue (CAD)
load revenue + accessorial revenue, each converted if in USD
Total costs (CAD)
operating + fuel + customs/border + other + carrier pay + deadhead + factoring (USD legs converted)
Net profit (CAD)
revenue (CAD) − total costs (CAD)
Profit margin
net profit ÷ revenue (CAD) × 100
Profit per loaded km
net profit ÷ loaded km
Break-even FX rate
the USD→CAD rate where net profit = 0, on the figures entered
Run it for any load that crosses the border, and re-run it if the exchange rate you will actually receive changes — the break-even rate shows how much room you have before the load stops making money in Canadian dollars.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this cross-border load profitability calculator tell me?
It estimates the net profit in CAD on a US-Canada cross-border load when your revenue and costs may be split between Canadian and US dollars. You enter your revenue (in CAD or USD), your own USD-to-CAD exchange rate, your operating, fuel, and border/customs costs, and any optional carrier pay or distances. It converts everything to CAD at the rate you enter and returns total revenue, total cost, net profit, margin, profit per km, the FX impact, and a break-even exchange rate. It is a planning estimate, not a quote.
Does this calculator use a live or current exchange rate?
No. There is no live exchange-rate lookup and no rate is hardcoded or assumed. You enter the USD-to-CAD exchange rate yourself — use the actual rate from your bank, payment provider, or broker. Exchange rates move constantly and vary by provider, so the conversion is only as accurate as the rate you type in.
Does it calculate customs duties, tariffs, or GST/HST?
No. This tool does not calculate customs duties, tariffs, HS-code classifications, de minimis thresholds, GST/HST, or any CRA, CBSA, IFTA, or government charge. Duties and tariffs are the importer-of-record's regulated obligation, not part of a carrier's commercial load P&L. Any customs broker, clearance, or border fee you include is a figure you enter yourself. Confirm duty, tax, and customs obligations with a licensed customs broker or your accountant.
How is this different from the Canadian Load Profitability Calculator?
The Canadian Load Profitability Calculator is for a single-currency Canadian load — all figures in CAD, no currency conversion. This cross-border version is built for loads where revenue or costs are partly in US dollars: it converts USD legs to CAD at the exchange rate you enter, adds cross-border cost lines like customs brokerage and border fees, and shows the FX impact and a break-even exchange rate. Use the domestic tool for a CAD-only load and this one when the border and currency are in play.
What is the break-even exchange rate it shows?
When a load has net exposure to US dollars, the break-even exchange rate is the USD-to-CAD rate at which the load's net profit would be exactly zero, holding every other figure you entered constant. If your actual rate is better than the break-even rate the load is profitable; if it is worse, the load loses money on the numbers entered. It is a sensitivity guide based only on your inputs, not a forecast of where the rate will go.
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