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Quote fast.
Defend every number.

Speed wins the load. Defensibility keeps the margin. Bulk Insights gives you both: an instant benchmark for any bulk lane, and the evidence to hold it when a shipper or carrier pushes back.

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from lane to benchmark
Seconds
from lane to benchmark
confidence score per estimate
100-pt
confidence score per estimate
of settled freight behind it
14 yrs
of settled freight behind it
The problem

A rate is only as good as what's behind it

Anyone can produce a number. The question that decides the negotiation is where it came from. Bulk Insights scores every benchmark on how closely the underlying freight matches the lane in front of you. So when you quote, you're not asserting a rate, you're citing one.

It's not just a rate. It's a rate you can stand behind in a negotiation.

What you get

Built for how you actually work

  1. 01

    Benchmarks in seconds

    Origin, destination, equipment type. You have a defensible range before the shipper finishes describing the load.

  2. 02

    Defensibility built in

    Confidence scoring tells you and your counterparty exactly how well the comparable freight matches. That turns a quote into a position.

  3. 03

    Protect your spread

    Fuel-adjusted cost per mile on both sides of the transaction, so you can see the margin before you commit to either end of it.

  4. 04

    Equipment-specific pricing

    Bulk equipment prices differently. Hopper, end dump, walking floor, belt, and pneumatic each carry their own benchmark.

  5. 05

    Commodity trends

    Rate movement by commodity group over 3 to 12 months, so you can tell a customer where the market is heading and be right.

  6. 06

    Coverage where it counts

    33 commodities across dry and liquid bulk: the freight general rate tools average into the noise.

  7. 07

    Price a whole RFP, not one lane

    Work a bid sheet lane by lane against settled freight instead of guessing at the long tail. The risk in an RFP is winning the lanes you underpriced, and a confidence score on every line tells you which ones those are before you submit.

Margin tool

See your spread before you commit to it

The margin tool sits with the rate results. Set your target margin and the benchmark turns into a buy, a sell, and the spread between them, per mile and per load. You know what the load is worth to you before you quote it.

  • Set target margin and see buy, sell, and spread
  • Cost per mile on both sides of the transaction
  • Backed by the same confidence-scored benchmark
Bulk Insights rate estimate for corn with a 10 percent margin applied, showing market rate, margin, and your rate for low, average, and high benchmarks
Pricing

Priced for how you use it

Per user, per month. Add people as you need them, and a larger team moves every seat onto a lower rate.

Pricing + Analytics

Everything in Pricing, plus market analytics, commodity and load heatmaps, and volume trends.

$150per user each month

$10 less per user at 4 or more

  • Rate estimates
  • Fuel prices
  • Operating cost
  • Year over year rates
  • Commodity heatmap
  • Commodity momentum
  • Commodity trends
  • Load heatmap
  • Load volume
  • Mileage band rates
  • Regional activity
  • Year over year overlay
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Pricing + Analytics + Capacity Procurement

Everything in Pricing and Analytics, plus equipment and carrier heatmaps, carrier discovery, and RFP bidding.

$299per user each month

$20 less per user at 4 or more

Everything in Pricing and Analytics, plus

  • Carrier discovery
  • Request for proposal bidding
  • Equipment heatmap
  • Carrier heatmap
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Prices in USD, billed monthly. Self-serve covers up to 6 users; for a larger team call 1-800-518-9240 and we will put together a plan that fits.

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Quote it. Then defend it.

Fourteen years of settled bulk freight, scored and ready before the call ends.

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