CargoIQ™: Intelligent Dispatching Built Around Your Equipment
RoadKing's AI system analyzes your truck, trailer, payload, route, fuel cost, and operating profile so our dispatch team can make smarter load decisions before your wheels ever move.
Most dispatch companies only look for loads.
RoadKing analyzes whether the load actually makes sense for your equipment.
Inside CargoIQ
Six intelligence engines, one clear recommendation
CargoIQ isn't a black box. Each engine answers one question about your load — and tells you exactly what real data it's built on.
Equipment Intelligence
Knows your exact truck and trailer, so every estimate is built around what you actually run — not a generic average.
- Reads
- Make, model, year, cab, GVWR/GCWR, axle ratings, tank capacity, trailer type
- Built on
- RoadKing equipment catalog + NHTSA VIN decode
Fuel Intelligence
Models how your truck actually burns fuel — loaded, empty, and idling — so fuel cost stops being a guess.
- Reads
- Loaded/empty MPG, idle and cruise burn, DEF use, live diesel pricing
- Built on
- Equipment baselines + regional diesel pricing
Route Intelligence
Turns a lane into real miles — including the empty miles to get there — so deadhead never hides in the math.
- Reads
- Loaded miles, deadhead, grade, elevation, conditions
- Built on
- Routing + lane distance data
Cost Intelligence
Builds your true cost to run the load — fuel, maintenance, tires, brakes — into one honest cost per mile.
- Reads
- Fuel, maintenance, tire and brake wear, operating cost per mile and per ton-mile
- Built on
- Operating-cost model + your equipment profile
Profit Intelligence
Tells you what a load really pays — net profit, margin, and the rate you'd need to walk away from.
- Reads
- Net profit, margin, target rate, walkaway rate, cost-per-ton-mile
- Built on
- CargoIQ profit model
Dispatch Intelligence
Hands your dispatcher a clear, scored recommendation — so the human decision is backed by the numbers, and you still approve every load.
- Reads
- Load score, compatibility check, recommended action
- Built on
- All engines above + your dispatcher's judgment
Every recommendation is traceable to real equipment data, route information, and live fuel pricing — with operating assumptions stated, not hidden. No guesses.
Inside the engine
Inside the CargoIQ Engine
Every load flows through the same seven-stage intelligence pipeline — equipment in, a clear recommendation out. Tap any stage to see what it does and the real number it produced on the example load.
We resolve your exact truck and trailer — make, model, year, cab, weights, and tank capacity.
The intelligence timeline
What happens between a load arriving and you approving it
CargoIQ does the analysis in the middle. Experienced people own both ends — and you have the final say. That's the order of operations on every load.
- Broker LoadHuman
- Equipment AnalysisCargoIQ
- Route AnalysisCargoIQ
- Fuel IntelligenceCargoIQ
- Cost AnalysisCargoIQ
- Profit ForecastCargoIQ
- Dispatcher ReviewHuman
- Customer ApprovalHuman
The agent, live
Watch CargoIQ work a real load
This is the CargoIQ agent running the exact evaluation it performs on every load — resolving your equipment, modeling fuel and cost, and scoring the profit, then handing a clear recommendation to your RoadKing dispatcher. CargoIQ does the analysis; your dispatch team makes the call; you approve every load.
$ cargoiq evaluate --load houston-dallas
Awaiting load…
Live output
What a load looks like through CargoIQ
An example load run through RoadKing's CargoIQ model. Subscribe, and these numbers run on your truck, your lanes, and live diesel pricing — on every offer before it reaches you.
- Payload
- 42,000 lbs
- Route
- Houston → Dallas
- Distance
- ~240 mi
- Diesel rate
- $4.00 / gal
42,000 lb payload sits within a standard tractor + 53′ dry van 80,000 lb gross limit — CargoIQ flags it as a clean fit and scores the dispatch confidence from your equipment profile.
What it's worth to you
Where CargoIQ shows up in your bottom line
Equipment intelligence isn't abstract. It changes which loads you take, what they really cost you, and how confident you are saying yes.
Fuel savings
Fuel modeled to your truck's real MPG, idle, and cruise burn — tighter estimates mean tighter rate negotiations and fewer surprises at the pump.
Better load selection
Every load scored against your actual equipment, so you take the ones that pay and pass the ones that quietly don't.
Reduced deadhead
Empty miles are priced into every offer, so deadhead stops eating your margin in the background.
Cost-per-mile visibility
Know your true operating cost per mile and per ton-mile before you commit — not after the settlement.
Dispatch confidence
Every recommendation arrives with the numbers behind it, so saying yes is a decision, not a guess.
Margin you can see
Target rate and walkaway rate on every offer — you always know the floor and the goal.
Your ROI, on one screen
This is the dashboard every subscriber gets. Below it's filled with sample figures — sign in and it becomes your fleet's real numbers.
Illustrative figures from a representative profile — not a real customer. Your dashboard fills with your own loads, fuel, and equipment once you subscribe and sign in.
Sign in to see your numbersLive intelligence metrics
The commercial-truck intelligence database behind every dispatch
Every load RoadKing works for you runs against CargoIQ's equipment database — real engine, transmission, weight, fuel-economy, and trailer baselines for the trucks American fleets actually run. It's live in production, continuously analyzing equipment, routes, and operating costs to support every dispatch decision our team makes.
Counted live from CargoIQ's production database — normalized engine, transmission, axle, fuel, and trailer specs feeding the profit model on every offer.
Put CargoIQ to work on your truck
Every RoadKing dispatch subscriber gets CargoIQ analyzing their equipment on every single load — no extra software, no add-on fee. Flat weekly pricing, AI equipment intelligence included.
VIN intelligence
One VIN. A full equipment profile.
With CargoIQ you drop in a VIN and the system identifies your truck automatically — make, model, year, engine family, configuration, and weight class — powered by the NHTSA vehicle database. One number, and your equipment profile builds itself.
- Manufacturer
- Model year
- Make / model
- Engine family (where available)
- Vehicle configuration
- GVWR class
- Equipment profile
The difference
Why CargoIQ is different
Most dispatch is a phone, a load board, and a gut feeling. RoadKing pairs experienced dispatchers with proprietary equipment intelligence — the same people, backed by a system that does the math on every load.
- Hunts the load board for whatever's posted
- Quotes off gut feel and rough per-mile averages
- No model of your specific truck or trailer
- Fuel and operating cost estimated in their head
- Deadhead and payload limits are an afterthought
- “Looks good” — with no numbers behind it
- Scores every load against your real equipment profile
- Models fuel, operating cost, and cost-per-ton-mile per truck
- Decodes your VIN into a full spec sheet automatically
- Prices deadhead, grade, and payload into every offer
- Gives a target rate and a walkaway rate, every time
- Experienced dispatchers make the call — you approve every load
That combination — veteran dispatchers plus proprietary logistics intelligence — is RoadKing's unfair advantage. It's not a feature we added. It's how we dispatch.
Included with dispatching
CargoIQ™ is included inside RoadKing's dispatching services. You don't buy separate software or learn a new tool — you get the benefit of AI-assisted equipment analysis through our dispatch team, on every load.
Dispatching backed by intelligence
Give your truck more than a dispatcher. Give it an operating intelligence system.