Freight brokerage for mid-size shippers

Every load checked. Nothing missed.

Instant market-rate quotes, a system that flags liftgates, surcharges, and problem carriers before they cost you, live vetted trucking options, and tracking that comes to you — all on a record you can hand to your boss. The organized freight desk, without hiring one. $0 platform fee; keep the TMS you already run.

3 free instant quotes — no card requiredKeep your TMSNo signup to look
Seconds
Live quote
rate + capacity read
$0
Platform fee
no per-seat fee · no minimum
100%
Audit coverage
every decision, logged
FMCSA
Carrier vetting
authority + safety · 45-point fraud library
Posture
Human-gated · a person signs before anything irreversibleFMCSA-verified carriers48-hr banking-change coolingAudit on every load
The status quo

Freight shouldn't cost you the load — or the visibility.

Three things go wrong with freight, and they go wrong the same way at every mid-size desk in the country. None of them are your team's fault. All of them are fixable.

The no-show nobody saw coming

The carrier doesn't show, and nobody knows until the dock calls. The afternoon turns into phone tag, the appointment slips, and the customer hears about it before you do.

The charge that surfaces on the invoice

The liftgate nobody flagged. The limited-access surcharge nobody priced. Detention you never saw coming. Costs somebody else knew about — that you find out about at month-end.

The upgrade that holds you hostage

Modernizing means a rip-and-replace migration, a project to fund, and a vendor you can't get back out of once the data's inside.

The checking, live

The system checks so you don't have to.

Watch it work a real quote: a residential delivery gets flagged for the liftgate nobody mentioned, a limited-access pickup gets its surcharge priced up front, and 68 accessorial checks run before you commit a dollar. The surprise charge that used to show up on your invoice shows up here instead — before you book.

Flagged before you commit

Liftgates, residential and limited-access fees, detention exposure — surfaced and priced while you can still say no, never absorbed silently or discovered at month-end.

Rare asks get a straight answer

Ask for a combination the open market barely runs — a liftgate on a 53′ van, a curtainside trailer — and the system says so up front, with what it means for price and capacity.

Checks land on the record

Every warning and every acknowledgment is written to the load record — so when the invoice arrives, it matches the quote, and you can prove it.

See it for real

Two minutes inside the portal

A real quote, the cost warnings firing, freight packed in 3D, live carrier sourcing, and the invoice — recorded on the live system, not a mockup.

Operational excellence

Every load, watched end to end.

A desk that watches every load at once, never forgets a follow-up, and never clocks out — so your team stops chasing status and runs the business. It covers the loose ends; a human signs before anything irreversible.

QUOTE IN SECONDS

Quoted in seconds, with a real capacity read

A market-rate estimate and a capacity-probability score, side by side, in seconds — so you commit to coverage that actually exists, not hope.

EMAIL + SMS ALERTS

Dispatched and tracked at every milestone

Carrier confirmed, in transit, delivered, exception — every milestone tracked, and you hear about it by email or SMS the moment status changes. No status to chase.

FMCSA + 45-PATTERN SCREEN

Vetted before any rate-con

Every carrier is checked against FMCSA authority and safety data and screened against a 45-point fraud-pattern library before we book. We vet before we book — never after.

NOTHING MISSED

Loose ends covered, so nothing is missed

The follow-up that always slipped, the exception that surfaced too late, the reconcile nobody got to — covered, quietly, every time. The desk doesn’t forget.

Quote ready
Carrier confirmed
Human signs
In transit
Exception handled
Delivered + POD

It never clocks out — and a human signs before anything irreversible.

Fraud defense

Six layers between a fraudster and your freight.

Double-brokering, identity theft, and payment diversion are the freight world's quiet tax — and they hit mid-size shippers hardest, because nobody at a mid-size shipper has time to vet every truck. We built the vetting in, so every load gets it whether or not anyone is watching.

Layer 1

Identity checked against the federal record

Every carrier is verified against FMCSA authority, safety, and registration data before we book. The carrier at your dock is the carrier we vetted.

Layer 2

45 fraud patterns screened before booking

Day-old MC numbers, phone-port flags, banking churn, and more — a 45-point fraud-pattern library screened on every carrier, every time. A good rate never buys an exception.

Layer 3

Third-party verification layered on

Deeper independent carrier-verification services layer onto our own checks as we enable them — defense in depth, not a single gate.

Layer 4

Callers verified against the carrier on record

On the phone, a caller is screened against the carrier's federally registered number and verified before anything about a load is discussed. A mismatch raises the alarm, not the load.

Layer 5

Payment changes wait 48 hours

Any change to where a carrier gets paid triggers a 48-hour cooling period and identity re-verification — the most common payment-diversion play, closed by design.

Layer 6

A person signs before freight is committed

No load is dispatched to a carrier without a human signature on the record. Automation does the checking; a person owns the commitment.

Negotiation never weakens vetting. A good rate never buys an exception.

Live options · Market rates

Watch your options appear — priced against the market.

When your load needs a truck, vetted options land in your portal in real time: each one authority-checked and fraud-screened before you ever see it, each priced against the live market band, each held for you while you decide. You review, you book — nothing books itself.

Vetted before it appears

Authority, insurance, on-time history, and the fraud screen — every check runs before an option is shown. If it made the list, it passed.

Priced against the market

Every option shows where it sits versus the market band on your lane, plus a live capacity read — so you know a fair price when you see one, and you can show your boss why you took it.

Held while you decide

Each option holds its price on its own timer — long enough to decide, never long enough to go stale. And you're the one who clicks book.

The shift

Old way vs Throughline way

Same freight. Same lanes. Same TMS. Everything that used to cost you the load — or the budget line — moved to the other column.

Old way
  • Chase status by phone
  • Hope the carrier shows
  • Surprise charges on the invoice
  • Per-seat bill + monthly minimum
  • Rip-and-replace your TMS
  • Vendor lock-in
Throughline way
  • Status comes to you, in your TMS
  • Carrier vetted before the rate-con
  • Added costs flagged before you commit
  • $0 platform, no per-seat fee
  • Keep your TMS, layer coverage on top
  • Leave anytime, no data hostage
Save money

Free to run. Paid only when freight moves.

The platform never shows up on your P&L. We earn the honest way — standard brokerage margin on loads that actually ship, plus transparent metered cost-plus only past a generous monthly fair-use threshold. No catch, no surprise invoice.

$0 platform fee
$0 per-seat
No per-user fee
No monthly minimum
Paid only when freight moves

Standard brokerage margin on loads that ship, plus transparent metered cost-plus only past a generous monthly fair-use threshold.

No line item to defend

No software bill in budget review, and no switching cost on the way in or out.

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This is how the fair-use model is structured — usage past a generous monthly threshold is billed at transparent cost-plus, openly. Most accounts never reach the first marker.

PilotFree to run

Spot freight, on demand.

ScaleFree to run

Contract lanes + RFP, named ops lead.

Ops TeamFree to run

Your own human ops team — $500/mo.

Organized systems

A record you can hand to your boss.

100% audit coverage. Every decision and every action on your freight is logged to a complete, reproducible record — load by load, nothing in the dark. When leadership asks what happened on a load, you answer in minutes, with receipts.

100% audit coverage

Every decision and action on your freight is logged to a complete, reproducible audit trail — not a summary after the fact, the full record, and it's yours for any load.

A complete record on every load

Ask for any load's full record and get it fast — the complete decision-and-action trail, built to hand straight to your boss, your CFO, or your auditor. No black box, no runaround.

Your rate, on the record

The price you pay is in the record, not buried in a statement at month-end. Transparency turned into the trust play.

Vetting shown, not claimed

FMCSA authority + safety checks and the 45-point fraud screen land in the record as ticks you can read — authority transfer, not self-assertion.

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Detroit, MI → Dallas, TX
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quote priced · capacity read
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FMCSA authority + safety
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45 patterns · 0 flags
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$2,440 · 78% capacity
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Sample record — every decision + action on a load, logged and yours to get.

And a person signs before anything irreversible — dispatch, banking changes, and more.

See how every load is logged
No rip-and-replace

Keep your TMS. Lose the blind spots.

Your stack stays. Our coverage layers on top. We keep your TMS in the loop — milestone and carrier events deliver via webhook, set up with you, so status lands where your team already works.

carrier confirmed · in-transit · delivered · exception
Email

Threaded by load. The quiet default.

SMS

Milestone-only. Carrier confirmed, in transit, delivered, exception.

Voice

A call on hard exceptions — rolling out.

Webhook

Events delivered into your TMS or workflow tool — rolling out, set up with you.

Email and SMS milestone alerts are live today; voice and webhook delivery are rolling out.

No migration, no data hostage, leave anytime.

Built to be inspected

Built to be inspected — down to every decision.

Your data isolated in its own environment, full traceability on every action, human sign-off on anything irreversible, and a record your security or finance team can verify — built to be read, not taken on faith.

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Run one real lane. Read the whole trail.

3 free instant quotes, no card required. Vetted carriers, added costs flagged before you commit, live options priced against the market, and a record on every load. Pilot it on one lane — there's almost nothing to lose.

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