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Industries · Freight & Logistics

Every load leaves a trail of PDFs. Someone is still retyping them.

Your TMS tracks the load. Rate confirmations, carrier packets, bills of lading and proof of delivery still arrive as attachments that a person reads and keys in. We automate the paper side of the load.

The load delivered Monday. The invoice is waiting on a POD that is sitting in a driver's camera roll.

A brokerage or small carrier makes its margin on volume, and volume is where the paperwork hurts. Each load produces a rate confirmation, a bill of lading, a proof of delivery and often accessorial paperwork for detention or lumper fees. Each new carrier produces a packet of authority, insurance and W-9 to check.

Most of it comes in by email, text and scan. We build the pieces that read those documents, match them to the right load in your TMS, and flag only the ones a person actually needs to look at.

Where the software stops

The TMS runs the load. The documents go around it.

McLeod, Aljex, Tai, Ascend and Rose Rocket all hold the load record. The friction is everything that arrives as a document instead of data.

Rate cons and changes live in email

The rate confirmation goes out from the TMS, but the signed copy and any change after the carrier signed come back as email attachments that someone has to reconcile by hand.

Packets that do not fit the standard flow

Services such as MyCarrierPackets, Highway and RMIS handle most carriers. The exceptions, a factoring company change or an insurance certificate that lapses mid-load, still land on a person.

Check calls outside the tracking tool

Carriers who will not use the tracking app get called, and the answer gets typed into the TMS notes, or does not.

Invoices wait on missing paperwork

A load cannot bill until the POD is in, and carrier pay cannot settle until the invoice matches the rate con. Chasing those two documents is a daily job.

The paperwork

The documents every load produces.

None of these is hard to read. There are just a lot of them, and each one has to end up attached to the right load with the right numbers.

Rate confirmations
Sent, signed, sometimes amended. The signed version and the final rate have to match what gets billed and paid.
Carrier packets
Operating authority, certificate of insurance, W-9 and factoring details, checked before the first load and watched after.
Bills of lading
Pickup documents with piece counts and weights that the delivery has to agree with.
Proof of delivery
Signed PODs arriving as photos, scans and fax, needed before the load can bill.
Accessorials
Detention, layover and lumper receipts that need approving and adding to the right invoice.

How we help

Built around your TMS.

Document intake

Rate cons, BOLs and PODs read from email and attached to the right load, with the key fields pulled out.

Rate con reconciliation

The signed rate compared with the TMS and the carrier invoice, and mismatches flagged before anyone pays.

Carrier compliance watch

Insurance expiry and authority changes checked on a schedule, not just at onboarding.

POD chasing

Loads delivered without paperwork listed each morning, with the carrier contact attached.

Invoice readiness

Loads that have everything needed to bill, surfaced as a queue instead of discovered in a spreadsheet.

Shipper portal

Customers see load status and download their documents without emailing your team.

Accounting sync

Customer invoices and carrier payables posted to QuickBooks or your accounting system, with exceptions flagged.

A website you do not maintain

Managed Website plans from $95 a month, including carrier setup and quote request forms that post to your systems.

Automation and custom software work is scoped and delivered for a fixed estimate you approve before we start.

Proof · CASH · the same kind of work

13,500 hours eliminated. Paperwork at volume, filed without retyping.

We have not built for a freight company, and this is not freight experience. It is the same kind of work. CASH filed settlement claims one record at a time, and loading them took up to 85% of the day. We automated it: a batch goes in, each record files itself with about 90% of every form filled, and a person checks the batch at the end. It saved about $450,000.

Reading a rate confirmation into a TMS is the same pattern: a document in, structured data out, a person reviewing the exceptions.

Read the case →

Go deeper

Running a company's websites and tools without an IT team.

A brokerage running a TMS, a load board, an onboarding service, accounting and a website has five systems and nobody whose job is making them agree. The playbook covers what that costs and where to start.

Freight & Logistics

Send us a week of load paperwork.

Tell us which documents arrive, where they come from and who retypes them. We will show you which of those can stop being manual.

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