SSR Score ranges and what they tell you.
The SSR Score runs from 0 to 100. It's calculated weekly from your real operating data — not projections, not estimates. The score compresses five financial signals into a single number that tells you where you actually stand.
What goes into the calculation.
The SSR Score is built from five components, each weighted by how much it predicts financial failure in small trucking operations. Click any component to see how it's calculated and what it means.
The most important ratio in trucking. If your cost-per-mile exceeds your revenue-per-mile, you lose money on every load regardless of gross revenue. The SSR measures the gap between CPM and RPM. A healthy gap (RPM significantly higher than CPM) scores well. A compressed or inverted gap scores poorly and is the single biggest predictor of failure.
Maintenance is the silent killer in trucking. Operators skip it to improve short-term cash flow — then face a $12,000 breakdown that wipes out months of margin. The SSR tracks your maintenance CPM week over week. If it's trending up (more spending per mile), something is wearing. If it disappears (zero reported), that's a red flag too — it usually means you're deferring, not solving.
Deadhead miles are miles you pay for but don't get paid for. Fuel, wear, time — all real costs with zero revenue. The SSR measures deadhead as a percentage of total miles. Below 15% is excellent. 15–25% is acceptable depending on your market. Above 30% means your routing or load selection is hurting your margins in ways that often don't show up until you run the full CPM.
What you actually kept after all operating costs. Not gross, not what came in from the broker — what landed in your pocket after fuel, driver, dispatcher, factoring, maintenance, and everything else. The SSR tracks this week over week. A single bad week is normal. A trend of compressed or negative margins is a warning that gets weighted in your score.
Your score isn't just a snapshot — it considers direction. An operator at 65 whose margins have improved three weeks in a row scores differently than one at 65 whose margins have compressed three weeks in a row. The 4-week trend catches deterioration early, before a single bad number becomes a pattern that's hard to reverse.
Where the data comes from.
The SSR Score is generated from the SSR entry form inside your dashboard. Once a week — or more often if you run multiple loads — you enter the week's numbers: total miles, loaded miles, gross revenue, and each cost category broken out individually.
Total miles, loaded miles, gross revenue, fuel, driver pay, dispatcher fee, factoring, maintenance, and other costs. Takes about 3 minutes once you have the data in front of you.
You sign off on the entry before it's committed. No numbers go into your record without your confirmation. Compass Star enters, you approve.
CPM, RPM, deadhead, margin, and trend are calculated. Your SSR Score updates. Your history builds week over week so you can see your trajectory, not just a snapshot.
Your SSR dashboard shows this week's score, your 4-week trend, which components are dragging your score, and what actions would improve it most. Not theory — your specific numbers.