Every carrier, one email chain.

Carriers answer by email, the way they always have. Frontier puts each email on its load, keeps each carrier's emails together like a thread in Mail, and turns their price into a bid you can accept, counter or pass.

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Frontier for Brokers Carriers inbox: loads with their carrier emails on the left, and one carrier's email chain on the right with their price, your counter, their question, and the Accept, Counter and Pass buttons.
Frontier for Brokers on a phone: a carrier's email chain on a load, with your counter, their "Ok, 1850 works" and their insurance attached, and the Accept $1,850, Counter and Pass buttons.

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How it works, step by step.

Real app screens · sample brokerage data

  1. Step 1

    Ask the carriers you want, in one go.

    From the load, pick the carriers who run the lane, or Select all. Each one gets an email from your rep with the load laid out, a book-now price if you set one, and a private link to bid. They can also just reply with a number.

    • Up to 50 carriers at a time
    • Carriers never see the customer or what they pay you
    • The email comes from your rep, and replies go to your load's inbox
    The email a carrier gets on their phone from Nate Collins at Bluegrass Freight Brokerage: a dry van load from Lebanon, TN to Atlanta, GA, with the pickup, delivery, equipment, weight, commodity and a book-now price of $2,250.
    What the carrier gets
  2. Step 2

    They bid from the link, or book it outright.

    The link opens on any phone with no account. They see the lane, the times and the freight, and can book it at your price, send their own with a note, or say they can't take this one.

    The bid page a carrier opens from the email: load 1049 from Lebanon, TN to Atlanta, GA, a Book it now for $2,250 button, a box to send their own price with a note, and Can't take this one.
    The carrier's bid page
  3. Step 3

    Every email lands on the right load.

    Carriers answer the way they always have. Frontier reads each reply, finds the load it's about by the load number, the email chain or the lane ("Dallas to Atlanta Tuesday" works), and turns the price into a bid. When an email could be about two of your loads, it asks you to pick.

    • Sort by Best match, Lowest or Newest
    • Tags say why: Best pick, Reliable, Check papers, New to you
    • Carriers with papers on file and a record on the lane come first
    Frontier for Brokers carrier emails: loads with how many emails and bids each has, an email that could be about 2 loads waiting for a pick, and load 1061's 10 carriers sorted by price, with Best pick and Check papers tags.
  4. Step 4

    One email chain per carrier.

    Open a carrier and their emails, your replies and their price are on one screen, in order. When they ask "when does this pick up?", it's in the same chain, under the price you were talking about.

    One carrier's email chain on load 1061: Hal Reeves at Barren River Freight asking $2,000 and asking about pickup, with Accept $2,000, Counter and Pass.
  5. Step 5

    Counter in their own email.

    Type your number and Frontier sends "Can you do $1,850 all in on Dallas, TX to Atlanta, GA?" as a reply in the carrier's chain. Press Edit to change the words first. A price you agreed on the phone can be booked as it is.

    The counter box under a carrier's $2,000 price: $1,850 typed in, the message that goes in their email, and Edit to change its words.
  6. Step 6

    They say yes. You press Accept.

    When they answer "Ok, 1850 works", Frontier shows Took your $1,850, with any insurance they attached right in the chain. Nothing is booked until someone on your team presses Accept.

    Hal Reeves' email chain: he asked $2,000, you countered $1,850, and he answered Ok, 1850 works with his insurance certificate attached, marked Took your $1,850, with the Accept $1,850 button.

Also built in.

Answer from your own mailbox

Replies and counters go from your Outlook address, in the carrier's own email chain, and they're in your Sent folder. Carriers never see a Frontier address.

Best match on top

Set-up carriers with clean papers come first, then the ones that ran this lane for you and show up on time. Tags say why: Best pick, Reliable, Check papers, New to you.

Counter any way they bid

A bid by email gets your counter by email. A bid on their link gets it on their link. A price from a phone call is saved, and you book it at what you agreed.

The inbox clears itself

Once the rate con is signed, the other carriers' emails fold away, marked read. Your booked carrier's emails always stay.

Fall-offs reopen the bids

If the carrier falls off, the closed bids open again with a note, and the carrier who fell off is marked on their record.

Paperwork stays in the chain

Insurance, a W-9 or a POD a carrier attaches shows under their email, and is filed on the carrier or the load as well.

Look-alikes stand apart

An email your mailbox couldn't confirm, or from an address that looks like a carrier you know, is marked and kept out of the real carrier's chain.

Your team never double-books

Every rep's mailbox feeds the same load. Everyone sees who already answered a carrier before they do.

Does Frontier book a carrier on its own?

No. Frontier reads the prices into bids, puts the best match on top and reads a yes or no to your counter. A person on your team presses Accept. Frontier only emails a carrier by itself if you turn that on, for the "it's covered" note or to ask which load they mean.

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