About MixTruck
What MixTruck is
MixTruck is a free, independent site built around concrete mixer and dump trucks, heavy-duty and commercial vehicles, and the everyday numbers that come with running one — towing, tires, fuel, maintenance, insurance, depreciation, and financing. It is supported by advertising, not by any truck maker, insurer, or industry body.
The tools
Eight calculators live at /tools/: the Towing Capacity Checker, the Tire Size Calculator, the MPG / Fuel Economy Calculator, the Fuel Cost Calculator, the Truck Maintenance Scheduler, the Commercial Truck Insurance Estimator, the Truck Depreciation Calculator, and the Truck Loan Calculator. Each one answers a single, concrete question — nothing more.
How they work
The Towing Capacity Checker weighs GCWR against curb weight, payload, and occupants, and checks tongue weight against a 10–15% guideline. The Tire Size Calculator decodes commercial, P-metric, and LT sizes into diameter, sidewall, circumference, and revolutions per mile from their standard geometry. The MPG and Fuel Cost calculators convert distance and fuel used into MPG, L/100km, km/L, and cost per mile or per fleet. The Maintenance Scheduler ranks oil, DPF, brake, transmission, tire, and DOT-inspection intervals against your odometer and annual mileage. Depreciation runs straight-line or declining-balance math over price, salvage, and useful life. The Loan calculator is standard amortization — payment, interest, and a payoff table.
Where the numbers come from
Every result is arithmetic on the figures you type in, run through established engineering formulas and widely used fleet-maintenance conventions — not a database of real truck specs, and not a lookup against any manufacturer’s figures. The insurance estimator produces a low–high planning range from the factors you give it, not a quote. Nothing you enter is stored; there is no account and no tracking behind the calculators.
The museum
The Museum of Trucks & Heavy Machinery is a separate, browsable collection covering the trucks of the road, the excavators and cranes of the construction site, and the engines and materials behind them. Every entry, image, and fact there is drawn directly from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, not written by us.
Blog & learn
The blog and learnsections carry longer articles and explainers on the same topics as the tools — useful background, not a substitute for checking your own truck’s specs.
Straight talk about ads & advice
MixTruck runs on ad revenue and has no affiliation with any truck manufacturer, insurer, tire brand, or with DOT, FMCSA, or any other regulator it references. Every figure here is a general estimate for planning purposes, not professional mechanical, DOT-compliance, financial, insurance, or safety advice. Always verify against your OEM/manufacturer specs, follow applicable DOT and FMCSA regulations, and consult a qualified mechanic, licensed insurer, or accountant before making a decision — and never operate an overloaded or mis-rated truck. Questions or corrections are welcome via contact.