Frontier vs ITS Dispatch (Truckstop): which fits your fleet?

ITS Dispatch is Truckstop's TMS, priced flat: $75 to $105 a month covers unlimited trucks and users. Frontier prices by trucks in service and is built around driver paperwork, factoring packets and driver pay.

What each one costs

ITS Dispatch (Truckstop) figures come from their public information as of October 2026. Confirm current pricing with ITS Dispatch (Truckstop) before deciding.

Source: Truckstop: TMS for carriers. Checked October 2026. Truckstop says listed prices exclude applicable fees and taxes.

 FrontierITS Dispatch (Truckstop)
Pricing modelBy trucks in service, unlimited usersFlat plans, unlimited users; Carrier plans cover unlimited trucks
1 truckFreeOwner-Operator $50/mo (1–2 trucks)
5 trucks$99/moCarrier $75/mo or Carrier Pro $99/mo
20 trucks$299/moCarrier $75/mo or Carrier Pro $99/mo
40 trucks$399/moCarrier $75/mo or Carrier Pro $99/mo
IFTAIFTA worksheet includedAdd-on, $5 per truck (Owner-Operator and Carrier Pro)

Frontier for a ITS Dispatch (Truckstop) shopper

  • Free on one truck, with every feature
  • Free driver app with document scanning and pay statements
  • Settlements for company drivers and leased-on owner-operators
  • Invoice, signed rate con and delivery paperwork in one factoring packet
  • AI rate-con reading into a load draft

When ITS Dispatch (Truckstop) might fit better

Past five trucks ITS Dispatch costs less than Frontier, because its Carrier plans don't charge by truck. It comes from Truckstop, so it fits naturally if you already book on the Truckstop load board, and its Dual Authority plan runs a brokerage alongside your trucks.

Built by a carrier

Frontier is built and run daily by a family-owned carrier, not a software vendor working from requirements docs. That shaped what got built first: dispatch, driver pay, and the documents that actually stall a load.

Frontier and ITS Dispatch (Truckstop)

Which is cheaper?
At one truck Frontier is free and ITS Dispatch is $50/mo. From six trucks up, ITS Dispatch's flat $75–$99/mo is less than Frontier's $179 and above.
Does Frontier find loads like Truckstop?
No. Frontier doesn't run a load board. It starts when a load is booked: the rate con, dispatch, paperwork, invoicing, factoring and driver pay.

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