Large Truck Technology Return on Investment Calculator

Use this calculator to estimate your fleet’s return on investment (ROI) by equipping your trucks with automatic emergency braking (AEB), lane departure warning (LDW), or video-based driver monitoring (video) systems. Default values based on national averages are provided for some questions. You may use those values or enter information specific to your fleet.

Equipment Costs

Which technology are you interested in estimating the ROI?

How many trucks will use the technology?

What is the per-unit cost of the technology?

Will the purchase of the technology be financed (yes or no)?

What is your drivers’ average salary per hour?

Salary/hour

What is your manager’s average salary per hour (only applicable when selecting video-based monitoring)?

Salary/hour

What is the yearly fee associated with the technology (if there is no yearly fee, enter $0).

Year Fee

What is the expected discount rate to account for inflation over the next 5 years? If you are uncertain, please select 0%.

Technology Benefits

Please enter the following information related to your insurance.

Please select if you are insured or self-insured.

If you are insured, please enter the following deductible information.

What is your liability deductible?

What is your cargo deductible?

What is your physical damage deductible?

Your total deductible amount based on the information you selected above. You may also enter another amount here if needed.

How many total miles does your fleet travel each year (optional)?

Please enter the following information related to your crashes. This will require you to have at least one year of crash data.

How many years of crash data do you have available?

Over that time frame, how many property-damage only (PDO) crashes did your fleet have that could have been prevented or mitigated by the technology of interest? If interested in AEB, please enter how many PDO rear-end crashes you had. If interested in LDW, please enter how many PDO sideswipes and run-off-road crashes you had. If interested in video-based driver monitoring systems, please enter the total number of preventable PDO crashes you had.

Over that time frame, how many injury crashes did your fleet have that could have been prevented or mitigated by the technology of interest? If interested in AEB, please enter how many injury rear-end crashes you had. If interested in LDW, please enter how many injury sideswipes and run-off-road crashes you had. If interested in video-based driver monitoring systems, please enter the total number of preventable injury crashes you had.

Over that time frame, how many fatal crashes did your fleet have that could have been prevented or mitigated by the technology of interest? If interested in AEB, please enter how many fatal rear-end crashes you had. If interested in LDW, please enter how many fatal sideswipes and run-off-road crashes you had. If interested in video-based driver monitoring systems, please enter the total number of preventable fatal crashes you had.

What is your average cost per PDO crash?

What is your average cost per injury crash?

What is your average cost per fatal crash?

Would you like your ROI estimate to be based on a low, medium, or high percentage reduction in crashes?

Based on that selection, the technology is estimated to prevent this percent of crashes.

Do you move high value cargo? Please select “0” if you do not move high value cargo or “$60,000” or “$1,000,000” if you do move high value cargo.

Would you like your ROI estimate to account for an additional amount of high value cargo? If yes, please include the additional amount below.

Based on your additional costs associated with high-value cargo, you may experience an average reduction in crash costs per year of:

Please make sure all data is entered. Press “Result” to see your results or “Clear” if you’d like to start over. If your results show an ROI of $0, please make sure you selected an effectiveness rate.

Based on all the information you entered, installing the advanced safety technology in your trucks may result in

for every $1.00 you spent on the safety technology.

You will recuperate your investment in

months

Here is a summary of the information you provided related to the costs.

Cost/Truck
Per-unit technology cost
Training costs
Maintenance costs
Coaching costs (if applicable)
Annual Fee (if applicable)

Here is a summary of your fleet-wide results based on all the information you provided.

Net Present Value (NPV) Benefit
NPV Costs
NPV Benefit - Cost
Benefit/Cost
Payback Period

Here is a summary of the estimated crash costs per year.

Crash Costs/Year - All Trucks
Average crash cost per year
Average reduction in crash costs per year with the technology
Adjusted average reduction in crash costs per year due to high-value cargo