Too much broker software takes weeks to go live and treats LTL as a tab on a truckload system. StreamLine rates your own carrier accounts and aggregator feeds on one screen, books with the carrier, prints a correct BOL and invoices the load — and you can see it on your own freight before you commit.
Every hour your reps spend on carrier websites, retyping BOLs and chasing check calls is margin you already earned and gave back. Here is what the category has trained brokers to accept — and what we refuse to do.
Much of the category makes you sit through a sales process just to find out whether the product fits. StreamLine is priced per named user, quoted the same business day, and you can see it working on your own freight first.
Some platforms quote multi-week or 90-day implementations. StreamLine has no implementation project. Your workspace is ready within one business day of signing up, and we connect your carrier accounts and brand your portal with you.
Many broker TMSs were built around the truckload load board, and LTL shows up as a carrier count. StreamLine was built quoting LTL first: density, class, linear feet, hazmat, accessorials, re-pricing at booking and a correct third-party bill-to on the BOL.
If "booking" means copying the load into a carrier website, you're doing the job twice. Aggregator loads book by API with the carrier's BOL and pickup numbers written back; XPO books, tracks and returns documents directly.
One lane entry prices across your direct carrier accounts and your aggregator feeds at your negotiated discounts, cheapest first, with your margin already applied.
Direct rating with FedEx Freight, Old Dominion, ABF, AAA Cooper and XPO on your own account numbers — plus Worldwide Express and Priority1 aggregator feeds rated alongside. Best buy wins.
Aggregator loads book by API with the BOL and pickup numbers written back to the load. XPO books, tracks and returns documents directly. Nothing gets re-keyed on a carrier website.
A portal booking is re-priced with the carrier at the moment it books and refused below your margin floor. The floor is enforced on the server, not just shown on a screen. Credit limits are checked before the load exists.
Density and cube per handling unit, with the implied class one click away. Linear feet estimated and drawn on a 53' trailer floor, with a warning where volume pricing starts. Guaranteed service shown alongside standard.
UN number, proper shipping name, class, packing group and 24-hour emergency contact captured on the quote and printed on the BOL in regulatory order.
Third-party bill-to printed correctly for aggregator freight, and a freight-bill audit that checks the carrier's invoice against the agreed rate, line by line.
A mass rater prices a whole lane sheet at once, and email intake turns a shipper's rate request into a quote request without anyone retyping it.
Quote, booking, carrier, documents, tracking, POD and invoice all live on the same record, so the rate you sold is the rate you bill.
Multi-pickup, multi-stop routes with every dock named. Build a load without a quote, post it to the Available board, and assign a carrier by name, MC or DOT. If the carrier isn't on file, we pull it from FMCSA.
FMCSA authority and out-of-service status block tenders automatically. Expired insurance stops a truckload tender until a current certificate is on file.
Shippers quote, book and track under your logo, in six languages, priced with your margins on the server. Unlimited portal logins at no extra cost.
Carrier feeds advance status and fill in PRO numbers. Truckload drivers check in from a link with no app to install, and your customer is emailed as the status changes.
BOL, labels, rate confirmations and invoices are generated from the load and emailed to the right dock at booking.
Invoices come from the load with your remit-to and terms and sync to QuickBooks. PODs and carrier bills are captured and matched against the load.
Built-in AI agents for billing, collections, tracking and freight-bill audit draft the routine work into a review queue. Each one can be off, on dry run or live, and you choose which.
Add-ins turn a rate-request email into a quote request in place, without copy and paste or switching tabs.
Net margin by load, customer, carrier and mode from the moment a load books. Scheduled reports are emailed automatically, and exports go to PDF, Excel and CSV.
"They're usually good" is not a carrier strategy. StreamLine scores each carrier from the loads they actually ran, flags a problem while it's happening, and stops a tender that shouldn't go out.
On-time pickup %, on-time delivery % and missed appointments per carrier, rolled into one weighted score and an A–F grade, ranked against your fleet average. Click a miss to see the load and the note behind it.
Every loaded and unloaded event is checked against that stop's appointment window plus a grace period you set. A carrier that never shows up is marked missed automatically, not left for someone to log. The grade comes from timestamps, not from someone's memory at the end of the month.
Every five minutes a sweep opens an exception for a late pickup or delivery, an ETA that has slipped past the window, detention building at the dock, a truck that has gone quiet for 12 hours, or a missed appointment, when no truck has shown up hours after the window closed. Driver-reported delays, damage and reclasses land on the same board, with the carrier named.
Inactive authority, an out-of-service order, an unsatisfactory safety rating, liability cover under $750k or expired insurance withholds the tender automatically. For truckload you can also require a signed broker-carrier agreement before anything is released.
Every carrier bill is audited line by line against the quote and the booking, and a variance goes to a review queue, not to accounts payable.
The carrier mix report shows each carrier's loads, spend and margin, and how few carriers carry 80% of your freight. It's the concentration risk nobody tracks until a carrier walks.
Shippers see their own on-time percentage and spend in the portal, measured against their delivery appointments, so the service conversation starts from the same numbers.
A TMS that only knows what someone typed will always lose to the carrier's re-weigh. StreamLine takes measurements straight from the dock and connects to the systems you already run. When your setup needs something specific, we build that integration with you.
Dimensioners, volume measurement systems (VMS) and scales post length, width, height, weight, piece count and an evidence photo straight onto the shipment, and the density, class and linear feet recalculate on the spot. We connect your specific equipment as a scoped integration.
No dimensioner yet? A LiDAR-equipped phone on the dock measures the pallet, grades its own confidence, and attaches the photo, with no login on a shared warehouse device.
Each device is paired by an admin and gets a key that can post a measurement and nothing else. If a device walks off, revoke its key in one click. Nobody's password needs resetting.
When the carrier bills a different weight, class or piece count, the variance against your captured measurements goes into a review queue. You dispute it with a photo and a timestamp, not a hunch.
QuickBooks sync for invoices, Outlook and Gmail add-ins for quoting from the inbox, email intake for rate requests, and EDI with your trading partners, mapped per partner.
A warehouse system, a yard system, an ERP, or a customer's own portal: tell us what it is. We scope the integration with you, quote it up front, and build it on the same load record.
Feature by feature, here's what you get with StreamLine next to what brokers tell us they put up with today. Bring this list to every demo you sit through.
| Feature | StreamLine | What brokers often run into |
|---|---|---|
| Buying it | ||
| Price | ✓ Per named user, in three tiers by desk size, quoted the same business day | Pricing only after a demo or sales call |
| Getting started | ✓ A walkthrough on your own freight; workspace ready in one business day | A demo first, then an implementation project measured in weeks |
| Onboarding | ✓ Included, and setup is done with you | Setup or implementation projects |
| Commitment | ✓ Month to month, 30 days' notice | Annual or multi-year terms |
| Quoting LTL | ||
| Whose rates | ✓ Your own carrier accounts at your discounts, plus aggregator feeds, on one screen | The platform's marketplace or wholesale rates, or no LTL rating at all |
| Freight class | ✓ Density and cube per unit, with the implied class one click away | Class typed from memory, then re-classed by the carrier |
| Linear feet | ✓ Estimated and drawn on a 53' trailer, with a volume-pricing warning | Found out on the overlength charge |
| Hazmat | ✓ UN number, shipping name, class, packing group and 24-hour contact, printed on the BOL | A hazmat checkbox |
| Booking & protecting margin | ||
| Booking | ✓ By API, with the carrier's BOL and pickup numbers written back | Re-keyed on the carrier's website |
| Portal bookings | ✓ Re-priced live and refused below your margin floor, on the server | Booked at a stale rate, and the loss shows up on the invoice |
| Credit | ✓ Checked before the load exists; overrides are named and logged | Discovered at invoicing |
| Bill-to | ✓ Third-party billing printed correctly on aggregator freight | Rebill disputes |
| Holding carriers accountable | ||
| Carrier performance | ✓ A–F scorecard: on-time pickup, on-time delivery and missed appointments, ranked | A gut feeling, or a spreadsheet updated once a quarter |
| On-time measurement | ✓ Actual loaded and unloaded times against the appointment window, automatically | Check calls and whatever the carrier reports |
| Exceptions | ✓ Late, missed appointment, slipping ETA, detention risk and tracking silence flagged every 5 minutes | Found out when the shipper calls |
| Carrier bills | ✓ Audited line by line against the agreed rate before anyone pays | Paid as billed |
| Running the business | ||
| Carrier vetting | ✓ FMCSA authority and insurance block the tender automatically | Checked at onboarding, rarely after |
| Customer portal | ✓ Your brand, six languages, unlimited logins at no charge | A paid add-on, or none |
| Billing | ✓ Invoices built from the load and synced to QuickBooks | A Friday batch built by hand |
| Dock measurements | ✓ Dimensioners, VMS, scales and phone LiDAR post dims, weight and a photo onto the load | Dims typed from a packing slip |
| Custom integrations | ✓ Scoped and quoted up front, built on the same load record | "Not on our roadmap," or a third-party connector fee |
| Automation | ✓ AI agents draft billing, collections and tracking work for your approval | More tabs, more copy and paste |
The right-hand column describes common patterns in freight-broker software, based on our review of publicly available information in September 2026. It doesn't describe any one product, and individual products vary. Ask any vendor you're considering to show you each of these features on your own freight.
You pay per named user each month, in three tiers by the size of your desk, with onboarding included and no long-term contract to start. Tell us about your desk and a person sends the current rates the same business day.
Yours. Direct carriers rate on your account numbers and discounts, and aggregator feeds use your relationships. StreamLine doesn't sit between you and your carriers.
A person emails you the same business day. Your workspace is provisioned within one business day, and then we connect and test-rate your carrier accounts, import your customers and brand your portal with you. Onboarding is included in the price.
No. You pay month to month and can cancel with 30 days' written notice.
No. LTL is where we're strongest, but truckload (multi-stop, the Available board, FMCSA carrier lookup) and parcel run on the same load record with the same controls.
Yes. Dock equipment posts measurements to StreamLine over a device credential that can do nothing else, and phone LiDAR capture works on day one. Connecting a specific dimensioner, VMS, scale, warehouse or yard system, or ERP is a custom integration: we scope it with you and quote it before any work starts.
Yes. Reports export to PDF, Excel and CSV. Your data belongs to you.
It runs on AWS with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based permissions and two-factor sign-in for staff. Card payments are handled by Clover's hosted checkout, so we never see or store a card number.