Will Payson, CEO & Founder

FreightWeb is here to change that.

"Our goal is to solve what has been a long-standing problem in the industry by working with both direct shippers and 3PLs," says Will Payson, co-founder & CEO of FreightWeb.

Traditionally, buying the whole truckload has been the easy way out for shippers and agents, who were troubled with the ordeal of arranging for a good solution for their partial truckload shipments—which are typically between 6 and 20 pallets (or 12 to 40 linear feet of truck). First off, shippers could not always succeed at making arrangements to consolidate their shipments with other partial freight shippers. Another challenge was that getting a rate quote from Less-than-truckload carriers (LTL) and brokers could take hours, and in some cases more than a day. Both cases required the shippers and brokers to know the right people to talk to and have patience. To top it off, they couldn't even be certain about the outcomes.

FreightWeb turns this scenario in favor of shippers and brokers. "Shippers can go to our website—myfreightweb. com—and register in a couple of minutes to get a real quote, whether it's for half a truck or a quarter or a full truck," says Payson. "We will give you a firm price for the shipment on the spot," he adds. Interestingly, FreightWeb is the only company in the U.S. that does this. The solution directly results in more than 25 percent savings in the shipment cost for shippers, making the trucking economy and transportation more efficient. FreightWeb is expanding the reach of its solution by partnering with leading players in the industry who can leverage its solution via APIs to automate Partial Truckload rate quoting and shipping.