Cargo Manager at the Mega Trucks Festival 2025 – a look back
On December 6 and 7, 2025, we were present at the Mega Trucks Festival in the Brabanthallen. The Mega Trucks Festival is a major trucking event where enthusiasts, drivers, and transport companies come together for impressive trucks, presentations, and everything related to transport.
Many owner-operators and transport companies came with the same question: how will the kilometer charge affect my margin per trip?
What is a kilometer charge?
A kilometer charge is a new levy per kilometer driven for trucks. The rate depends, among other things, on the vehicle type and emission class. For many companies, this will become a fixed cost that you must include in your calculation in advance, just like fuel, tolls, and other kilometer-based costs.
Why this directly affects your margin
If you do not include the kilometer charge in your pre-calculation, you will only see the effect afterward in your results. And by then, it is too late: the trip has already been driven and the price has already been agreed upon.
Ernst van Kranen (owner of Cargo Manager):
“Even before you depart, you must know what a trip costs and what it yields. Profitability should be clear in advance, not just in hindsight.”
Practical: how to use it in pre-calculation
During the festival, we let visitors calculate their kilometer charges in our TMS Cargo Manager based on their own situation. This immediately made it clear:
- what the extra costs per trip are
- what the effect is on the margin
- and what is needed to transparently pass this on to the client (with clear agreements in advance)
The reactions were primarily practical: transport companies and owner-operators want oversight and certainty before departure. Not ‘adjusting’ afterward, but knowing where you stand beforehand, especially when margins are under pressure.
If you also want to calculate this for your own trips (with your own vehicles and rates), a short demo (pop-up) of our TMS Cargo Manager is the fastest way to see how to include this in your pre-calculation.
You can also start with a 30-day trial period for Cargo Manager | ONE.
The Mega Trucks Festival was thus a successful edition for Cargo Manager, where we demonstrated how advance insight leads to well-founded decisions per trip in today’s transport world.