A navigation product that follows the money
For most of its life MFAH Navigator answered one question: how do I get there. Truck Mode answers a second one that matters more to the person paying for the truck — was the trip worth running, and has the money arrived yet.
The change is structural rather than cosmetic. A load is now the central record in Truck Mode. The same record that carries the pickup and delivery cities also carries the rate, the loaded and deadhead miles, the fuel and toll expenses, the dispatch stage, the invoice number, every payment against that invoice and the settlement that closes it out. Because one record holds all of it, the routing screen and the profit-and-loss screen are describing the same trip rather than two separate spreadsheets that drift apart by the end of the quarter.
Route. Operate. Get Paid.
Route covers what Truck Mode has always done: routing requested with commercial-vehicle parameters from a saved truck profile — gross weight, axle count, height, length and hazmat status — plus route weather sampled from National Weather Service data, freight corridor monitoring and searches for truck stops, showers, scales and repair along the road ahead rather than around an arbitrary map centre.
Operate is the new middle. A Trip Operations Plan assembles one load's whole working picture on a single page: the lane and dispatch stage, loaded and deadhead miles, the driving clock with planned breaks against the 11-hour limit, the fuel or energy the miles require, weather and stop links, any service interval that falls due inside the trip's mileage, and the documents the load needs.
Get Paid is the part navigation products usually leave to somebody else. Truck Mode issues sequential invoices, records full and partial payments and reversals, ages receivables by open balance, reconciles cash flow and settles a load automatically once its invoice is paid in full.
Projected against actual, never blended
Load economics are shown twice and labelled differently each time. Before acceptance the numbers are a projection built from the rate and the miles entered: revenue, rate per loaded mile, an estimated fuel figure from the vehicle's recorded MPG, tolls where a routing provider returns them, and a projected margin against a break-even derived from the operator's own historical cost basis.
After delivery the same load is recalculated from what actually happened — the fuel receipts recorded, the tolls paid, the expenses entered — and shown as the actual result. Keeping the two separate is the difference between a planning tool and a bookkeeping tool, and Truck Mode is deliberately both without letting either pretend to be the other.
What is deliberately not claimed
Truck Mode does not certify that a route is legal for a given configuration. When a truck-aware provider verifies the path it is labelled verified; when it cannot, the result is labelled a preview that is not truck-restriction verified, and the driver is told to obey posted signs, bridge laws and state restrictions.
Hours-of-service figures are arithmetic applied to hours the driver enters. They are not an electronic logging device and not a compliance determination. Retail diesel pricing, charging prices and open parking-space counts require connected providers; where none is connected the product says the data is unavailable instead of displaying an estimate as fact.
Pricing
Truck Mode routing, weather, fuel calculations, truck stop discovery and trip planning are free. Owner-Operator Pro is $19.99 per month and adds the accounting journal, load settlements, profit and loss, expenses, receipt storage and the monthly dashboard. Owner-Operator Elite is $29.99 per month and adds the tax centre, quarterly and year-end reporting, IFTA support, broker analytics and lane analytics.