Centralize the process
Eliminate 100% of email + spreadsheets. Centralize your data in a secure dashboard, and navigate a complex freight market without increasing your workload.
An easier way to run your transportation RFP or mini-bid.
Whether you need short-term or long-term pricing on your shipping lanes, RFP Guide helps you to publish a request for pricing, compare rates, and award a provider to haul your freight.
Manage Providers
Manage company and compliance information for all of your carriers + brokers. Stay up to date on insurance and safety information with automatic updates from Carrier411 + FMCSA.
Rate discovery
Survey the market, track your spending overtime, and benchmark your current rates against historical + real-time market data.
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Publish 1 to 1000 lanes in under 1 minute.
Work faster and more efficiently with our easy to use and intelligent sourcing optimization and automation features. Create headspace for more strategic activities across your business.
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One Dashboard
Stay organized with everything on one dashboard
Real time Rates
Benchmark all of your carriers vs a real time bookable rate, target rate, and historical rate
All-in-one Management
Manage contact, compliance, and billing information for all your carriers and brokers
Stay up to date
Stay up to date with carrier insurance and safety scores
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Our team of industry experts and technicians are here to answer your questions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Work faster and more efficiently with our easy to use and intelligent sourcing optimization and automation features. Create headspace for more strategic activities across your business.
- Shippers need a mix of short-term and long term pricing contracts to avoid the spot market and keep freight moving on time. RFP Guide allows you to perform these different operations in a centralized and secure dashboard without increasing your workload.
- You’ll love the price but we want to show you the value first. Schedule a demo!
- The pricing algorithm is powered by more than 500 market data sources including DAT, Sonar, Truckstop, as well as proprietary data from our integrations with Shipper + Carrier TMS.
- No. You have no obligation to use Loadsmart. All Software from the Loadsmart is 100% carrier agnostic. All carriers have equal opportunity to participate and win business.
- We customize the format so you can download bid results and upload then directly to your native system.
- Full-Truckload
- Partial-Truckload
- Less-Than-Truckload
- Domestic Drayage
- Rail Intermodal
- Equipment Type can be customized to fit your operational needs.
- Currently, the tool is set up to support lanes in the US, Canada, and Mexico only.
- You set the response deadline. The average response time is 8-10 days on an annual RFP. The average response time on mini-bids can be as little as 1 hour.
- Of course! All data generated in the RFP Guide is made anonymous and stored on a secure server. To know more and talk to our IT team, please click here to schedule a demo.