01 / Rate base
Reconciled, not approximated
A tariff that cannot reproduce your history cannot audit your future. Ours is proven against real shipments before it goes to work.
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One platform.
Built in-house
since 1998.
Our own software runs all of it: the TMS your team works in, the rating engine that checks every freight bill, and the connections to your carriers and to your own systems. Written, and constantly improved, by the people who move your freight.
§ 01 / How it fits together
Your carriers, our platform,
your team. One system.
Your carriers
- Carrier APIs
- EDI
- Email, where a carrier has no API
The Freight Edge platform
- Rating engine
- TMS
- Freight bill audit
- Claims
You
- Your team, in the client portal
- Your systems, through our API
- Your customers, on a tracking page
§ 02 / The engine
A rating engine,
not a rate lookup.
Your contracted tariff — base rates, discounts, FAK, fuel, accessorials — rebuilt and validated against your known shipments before it audits anything. Live carrier API rates and your contract rating, side by side.
02 / Coverage
Every bill, not a sample
Audit firms sample. We reprice one hundred percent of your freight bills, because software does not get tired at invoice four hundred.
03 / Exceptions
Discrepancies come to you
Wrong class, missed discount, an accessorial that should never have applied — flagged with the reason attached.
§ 03 / Connected to your carriers
The carrier side,
handled.
01
Carrier APIs
15+ LTL carriers connected by API for live rates and tracking, with tracking updated every 30 minutes in business hours. Pickup requests go straight to 14 carriers.
02
EDI
Freight bills come in by EDI (210) from major LTL carriers, straight onto our own systems, and we send 997 acknowledgements back. Processed automatically overnight.
03
Email, where there is no API
Carriers without an API get the pickup request by email with the BOL attached. For the rest of the status work, we chase it, so your team stops being a switchboard.
04
Documents
Documents and PODs retrieved automatically from 15+ carriers and attached to the load. A POD marks it delivered.
§ 04 / Connected to you
Your team, your systems,
your customers.
01
Client portal
One sign-in page. Every shipment on one board, freight bill approvals, reports, and a chat on each load with your colleagues and our staff. See the TMS
02
FE Connect API
Connect your ERP, SAP or other in-house system to FE Connect, our REST API, and run your shipping straight from your own system: rates, booking, pickups, tracking and documents. The documentation and a test console are inside the client portal.
03
Tracking for your customers
A public tracking page your customers can open without signing in.
§ 05 / Running today
The work nobody
wants to do.
Not roadmap items. These run against live freight today, and wherever the software is not certain, a person checks before anything is filed or paid.
01
AI-assisted document reading
Drop in a BOL and AI-assisted reading fills in the shipment. Freight bills are read the same way and matched to the shipment. A person reviews anything the software is not certain about.
02
Audit before payment
Every bill repriced the moment it lands. Overcharges caught before the money leaves, not recovered months later.
03
Rate increases
A general increase gets modelled against twelve months of your actual shipments before you agree to it.
04
Carrier rules
Rate quotes list your preferred carriers first and leave out any carrier you have blocked for that location.
§ 06 / Security
Your data,
handled properly.
01
Encrypted connections
HTTPS on every portal, on dedicated hosted infrastructure.
02
Protected sign-ins
Passwords are salted and hashed, and the carrier logins we hold for you are encrypted at rest.
03
The right access for each person
Separate roles for client admins, users, vendors and our staff. Vendors never see your pricing.
04
A full history
Every shipment keeps a change history, and you get an on-screen notice before we install an update.
§ 07 / The difference
What everyone else
calls a TMS.
| Capability | Conventional TMS | Freight Edge |
|---|---|---|
| Freight bill audit | Sampled, or outsourced months later | Every bill, repriced before payment |
| Rate accuracy | Trusts the carrier’s rated amount | Reprices from a reconciled tariff and compares |
| Invoice entry | Manual keying from a PDF | AI-assisted reading and matching, with a person reviewing when unsure |
| Rate increases | Accepted, then absorbed | Modelled against your history and challenged |
| Status requests | Someone on your team calls the carrier | Pulled automatically from most major LTL carriers |
Why this is hard to copy. Anyone can put a language model in front of a shipment table. The difficult part is the reconciled rate base underneath it — and that took us decades and a lot of freight to build.
Bring us 90 days
of freight bills.
We will audit them free against your contracted tariff and show you what we find. It is the hardest demonstration for anyone else to match.