CarrierTool
FreightIQ™

The intelligence layer that operates alongside your transportation team.

FreightIQ™ is CarrierTool's AI operating layer. It works across transportation operations, capacity sourcing, inbound carrier voice, documents and evidence, carrier intelligence, tracking, exceptions, and product knowledge from the same operating system your team uses every day.

AI That Works In The Operation

FreightIQ does more than answer questions.

FreightIQ can understand incoming work, create operational records, source carrier capacity, conduct inbound carrier conversations, evaluate evidence and rates, identify exceptions, and help users complete the next step. It is built into CarrierTool rather than bolted on as a separate chatbot.

Real workflow
30–40 minutes of manual entry reduced to approximately 1–2 minutes.

In an early enterprise deployment, complex 13–17 stop milk runs that were previously keyed manually into a legacy TMS can now be forwarded by email. FreightIQ interprets the customer email and documents, builds the load plan, and presents it for operational review.

Operate

Understands loads, customers, carriers, documents, tracking events, financial workflow, sourcing activity, and operational context so users can move directly to action.

Automate

Builds freight from inbound email and documents, extracts shipment data, validates evidence, routes exceptions, and advances workflows without repetitive re-keying.

Source

Helps source capacity, presents carrier-safe load details, qualifies interested carriers, captures bids and capacity offers, evaluates rates against configured authority, and routes the best opportunities to operations.

Voice

Powers automated inbound carrier sourcing conversations that can identify the load, verify DOT or MC, qualify equipment and availability, answer load questions, negotiate when authorized, and capture structured bids without tying up a broker.

Monitor

Watches execution, dwell, geofences, missing evidence, carrier compliance, sourcing coverage, billing readiness, and other conditions that otherwise require manual follow-up.

Know

Connects operational knowledge with CarrierTool documentation, tenant-specific processes, evidence, and workflow history to answer questions in context.

AI Capacity Procurement

Source capacity while your team works the freight that needs human attention.

FreightIQ works with CarrierTool Carrier Sourcing to turn an open load into an active procurement workflow. It can use the complete load and stop plan, carrier qualification data, equipment requirements, appointments, recurring-volume opportunities, and tenant-defined rate authority to help find and qualify capacity without exposing internal customer pricing or margin strategy.

Sell the load

Present carrier-safe freight details, including truthful multi-stop requirements, appointments, equipment, handling advantages, and available volume.

Evaluate & negotiate

Capture the carrier rate and evaluate it against configured procurement authority. FreightIQ can negotiate when authorized, calculate rate-per-mile when mileage is available, and recognize preferred bids without falsely awarding the load.

Capture capacity

Collect structured single-load bids or larger capacity offers, including trucks, turns, dates, and rate expectations, so operations can review and award from the sourcing workspace.

Automated Inbound Voice

Every inbound carrier call can become structured procurement data.

CarrierTool's inbound AI voice workflow lets carriers call about posted freight and have a natural sourcing conversation without waiting for a broker. FreightIQ keeps the conversation grounded in the live sourcing load and CarrierTool's carrier data while CarrierTool remains the system of record for qualification, negotiation authority, bids, and awards.

What the AI can handle
• Identify the posted load from its CarrierTool reference.
• Verify the carrier using DOT or MC and use CarrierTool carrier intelligence.
• Answer questions about route, stops, appointments, equipment, handling requirements, and load facts.
• Qualify truck location, equipment, availability, and other sourcing conditions.
• Collect the carrier's rate and evaluate every changed rate before submission.
• Negotiate toward configured targets when authorized, using truthful operational advantages and available volume.
• Mark qualifying rates as preferred bids while never claiming a load is booked, awarded, or dispatched.
• Recognize multi-truck opportunities and capture structured capacity offers for projects or recurring freight.
• Submit the final structured bid to Carrier Sourcing for operations review and award.
Execution Intelligence

From customer email to capacity, delivery, evidence, and billing.

FreightIQ can help build the load, source the carrier, monitor carrier and driver execution, compare GPS/geofence events with user-reported events, track required evidence, surface dwell and ETA risk, and determine what is blocking closeout or billing.

1
Receive

Customer emails and documents enter the tenant workflow.

2
Understand

FreightIQ extracts the load plan, stops, references, instructions, and evidence requirements.

3
Source

Carrier Sourcing and inbound AI Voice qualify capacity and collect structured bids.

4
Execute

Operations, carrier, and driver workflows run with tracking and exception monitoring.

5
Close

Evidence is validated and the shipment moves toward closeout, invoicing, and settlement.