Agent skill

Freight Rate Quote

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is…

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Install Freight Rate Quote

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill freight-rate-quote -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills freight-rate-quote --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/freight-rate-quote .claude/skills/freight-rate-quote && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
freight-rate-quote
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
853 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is…

  • Works in 7 steps: Build cost per mile from both halves.… → Use realistic annual miles. Optimistic… → Price the deadhead. Empty miles to pick… → …
  • Asked to quote a freight rate
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Cost Per Mile, Then… and Deeper Material, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Freight Rate Quote is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is profitable. Use when asked to quote a freight rate, price a lane, work out cost per mile, decide whether to accept a load, or explain why a lane is losing money. Produces the fully-loaded cost per mile, the lane economics including empty miles, the accessorial schedule, the break-even and target rate, and the…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/worked-example.md`).

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to quote a freight rate
  • Work out cost per mile
  • Decide whether to accept a load
  • Explain why a lane is losing money

Example prompts

  • “/freight-rate-quote”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Build cost per mile from both halves. Fixed costs — payments, insurance, licensing, overhead — divided by realistic annual miles, plus…
  2. Use realistic annual miles. Optimistic utilisation is the single most common error in fleet costing; it understates fixed cost per mile…
  3. Price the deadhead. Empty miles to pick up and away from delivery are real miles. A rate quoted on loaded miles alone is a rate quoted on…
  4. Price the time, not just the distance. A 400-mile run that consumes two days because of a difficult delivery window costs more than an…
  5. Assume detention will happen and make it collectable. Detention priced but not documented is detention not paid. The terms and the…
  6. Weigh the reload. A good rate into a dead market is worse than a modest rate into a strong one. Total round-trip revenue per day is the…
  7. Know your floor and say no below it. A lane run below break-even to keep a truck moving loses money faster than a parked truck.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Freight Rate Quote loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 139 tokens; SKILL.md has 853 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~139
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 853 words, ~1,645 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/freight-rate-quote/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
freight-rate-quote
description
Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is profitable. Use when asked to quote a freight rate, price a lane, work out cost per mile, decide whether to accept a load, or explain why a lane is losing money. Produces the fully-loaded cost per mile, the lane economics including empty miles, the accessorial schedule, the break-even and target rate, and the accept-or-decline recommendation.

Freight Rate Quote

Lanes lose money on the miles nobody billed for. The rate looks fine on the loaded leg, then deadhead, detention, and a reload that took two days turn a profitable quote into a loss. This builds the rate from a real cost per mile, prices the empty and waiting time honestly, and produces a number that either covers the load or tells you to decline it.

What This Skill Produces

  • Fully-loaded cost per mile — fixed and variable, including the costs usually left out
  • Lane economics — loaded and empty miles, transit time, and the realistic reload position at destination
  • The accessorial schedule — detention, layover, extra stops, and the terms that make them collectable
  • Break-even and target rate — the floor, the target, and the margin between them
  • The accept-or-decline call — with the reasoning, including when a below-target rate is still correct
  • The sensitivity view — what happens to the margin if fuel, detention, or the reload assumption moves

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The lane — origin, destination, distance, and frequency
  • The load — weight, commodity, equipment type, and any special requirements
  • Your cost base — fixed costs per vehicle, and variable costs per mile
  • The reload position — what typically comes out of the destination market, and how long it takes to find
  • The terms — payment days, detention terms, fuel surcharge basis, and who the customer is

Framework: Cost Per Mile, Then Every Mile You Actually Drive

  1. Build cost per mile from both halves. Fixed costs — payments, insurance, licensing, overhead — divided by realistic annual miles, plus variable costs: fuel, tyres, maintenance, driver pay per mile.
  2. Use realistic annual miles. Optimistic utilisation is the single most common error in fleet costing; it understates fixed cost per mile across the whole business.
  3. Price the deadhead. Empty miles to pick up and away from delivery are real miles. A rate quoted on loaded miles alone is a rate quoted on a fiction.
  4. Price the time, not just the distance. A 400-mile run that consumes two days because of a difficult delivery window costs more than an 800-mile run that flows.
  5. Assume detention will happen and make it collectable. Detention priced but not documented is detention not paid. The terms and the evidence requirement matter more than the rate.
  6. Weigh the reload. A good rate into a dead market is worse than a modest rate into a strong one. Total round-trip revenue per day is the honest measure.
  7. Know your floor and say no below it. A lane run below break-even to keep a truck moving loses money faster than a parked truck.

Deeper Material

  • references/worked-example.md — a Manchester–Aberdeen round that looks excellent per loaded mile and merely acceptable per day. Read it when the shape of a good output is unclear, or to calibrate how specific the entries should be.

Output Format

Show full SKILL.md (378 more words)Show less
Rate quote: [lane] · [equipment] · [date]

Cost per mile

Fixed (annual)AmountVariable (per mile)Amount
Payments/depreciationFuel
InsuranceTyres
Licensing/permitsMaintenance
Overhead allocationDriver pay
Total fixedTotal variable
Realistic annual miles: [n] → fixed per mile [amount] → fully-loaded cost per mile [amount]

Lane economics

MilesCost
Deadhead to origin
Loaded
Deadhead from destination (to reload)
Total
Transit time: [days] · Reload position at destination: [strong / weak — typical wait [n] days]

Accessorials

ItemRateTermsEvidence required
Detention[rate after n hours][signed timestamps]
Layover
Extra stop
Fuel surcharge[basis]

Rates: break-even [amount] · target at [n]% margin [amount] · quoted [amount] · per loaded mile [amount] · revenue per day [amount]

Recommendation: ☐ Accept ☐ Accept with conditions ☐ Decline — [reasoning]

Sensitivity: fuel +[n]% → margin [effect] · detention 4h unpaid → margin [effect] · reload takes +1 day → margin [effect]

A costing framework only. Rates, fuel surcharges, detention terms and accessorial practice vary by market, contract and jurisdiction, and some lanes carry regulatory or licensing requirements affecting cost. Verify your own cost base and contract terms before quoting.

Quality Checks

  • Cost per mile includes both fixed and variable, with overhead allocated
  • Annual miles are realistic rather than optimistic
  • Deadhead miles at both ends are included in the lane cost
  • Time cost is considered, not just distance
  • Detention terms specify the evidence needed to collect
  • The reload position at destination is factored into the decision
  • Break-even is stated and the recommendation respects it
  • Sensitivity to fuel, detention and reload delay is shown

Anti-Patterns

  • Quoting on loaded miles only. The empty miles are the ones that lose the money.
  • Optimistic utilisation. Understates fixed cost per mile across every quote you make.
  • Ignoring the destination market. A great rate into a dead area is a bad load.
  • Detention with no evidence requirement. Priced, billed, disputed, written off.
  • Forgetting overhead. Dispatch, admin and premises are real and must be carried.
  • Running below break-even to keep the truck busy. Loses money faster than parking it.
  • Pricing distance and ignoring time. Short difficult runs can cost more than long easy ones.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Quote a rate for a lane from Manchester to Glasgow"
  • "What is our actual cost per mile?"
  • "Should we take this load at this rate?"
  • "Why is this lane losing money?"
  • "How do I price detention so we actually get paid?"

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/freight-rate-quote of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/worked-example.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Freight Rate Quote

What does Freight Rate Quote do?

Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is…. Freight Rate Quote is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Build a freight rate that covers the cost of actually running the load — the per-mile economics, the deadhead and detention nobody prices, and the accessorials that decide whether the lane is profitable.

When should I use Freight Rate Quote?

Freight Rate Quote fits situations like: asked to quote a freight rate; work out cost per mile; decide whether to accept a load; explain why a lane is losing money.

How do I install Freight Rate Quote in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill freight-rate-quote -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/freight-rate-quote in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/freight-rate-quote in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Freight Rate Quote in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill freight-rate-quote -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/freight-rate-quote in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/freight-rate-quote in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Freight Rate Quote in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill freight-rate-quote -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/freight-rate-quote, .gemini/skills/freight-rate-quote, .github/skills/freight-rate-quote and .opencode/skills/freight-rate-quote in your project.

What does Freight Rate Quote need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Freight Rate Quote is instructions for the agent only.

Does Freight Rate Quote access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Freight Rate Quote safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Freight Rate Quote use?

Freight Rate Quote is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Freight Rate Quote use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 945 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Freight Rate Quote?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.