Email in. Rated quote out. Freight moves.
Most cloud TMSs treat LTL as a checkbox on truckload software. Keelway is built on real LTL primitives — shipments with PRO numbers, your own tariffs, density-aware rating, standing linehauls — sized and priced for 5–50 door carriers, final-mile fleets, and freight consolidators. The AI does the clerical work. You stay in control.
One shipment, start to settled.
A quote request lands in the inbox. Follow it through extraction, rating, margin, the yard, the trailer, live tracking, and the invoice.
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Six primitives, in the order your freight meets them
Every LTL shipment in Keelway moves through the same six stages: intake, classify, rate, schedule, consolidate, bill. Each one below is shipped and working today — not a roadmap slide. Two of them do the work dispatchers usually eat: AI quoting from email clears the inbound inbox, and the rating engine prices against your own tariffs — so a quote that used to take a re-key and a spreadsheet takes a review and a send.
AI quote-from-email
Shipments with PRO numbers & live density
Your own tariffs, density-aware rating
Recurring linehaul schedules
Crossdock, trailer building & route optimization
LTL accessorial billing
Around the freight
LTL isn't a silo. Every shipment flows into the same dispatch, driver, and money rails the whole Keelway TMS runs on — LTL dispatch and P&D routing, crossdock consolidation, and the back office are one system, not bolt-on modules.
- Driver app (PWA). Trip workflow, POD capture, DVIR, HOS, GPS pings. Runs on the phone your drivers already have — no extra hardware.
- Live tracking links. Public, expiring tracking pages per load or per truck — emailed to a shipper in one click.
- EDI. 204 / 990 / 214 / 210 / 997 with your trading partners, with retry and audit built in.
- Settlements & driver pay. Per-mile, tiered CPM, percent, hourly, per-stop. Fuel, tolls, advances, and per-mile insurance deduct automatically.
- Invoicing & QuickBooks. Invoice from the load, sync to QuickBooks, match remittances against open A/R.
- Dunning that drafts itself. Aging invoices get follow-up emails drafted on schedule — reviewed by you before anything sends.
And when someone just needs a class checked, the free freight class calculator runs the same density math the classify stage computes live.
Where Keelway sits
LTL software splits into two camps, and neither is built for a 5–50 door carrier. Enterprise LTL suites have the depth — behind five-to-six-figure implementations priced for terminal networks. Modern cloud TMSs are approachable — and treat LTL as a checkbox on truckload software. Keelway sits in the gap.
| Dimension | Enterprise LTL suites | Cloud TMS + “LTL” checkbox | Keelway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | 100+ door terminal networks | Truckload fleets first | 5–50 doors, final mile, consolidators |
| Rating | Deep — behind a rate-base procurement project | No real class or density rating | Your own lane tariffs — six weight breaks, FAK, minimums |
| Shipment lifecycle | Full, at enterprise depth | Load-level only — no PRO-level shipments | PRO-level shipments, quote to invoice |
| Dock & linehaul | Yes — built around terminal operations | No dock or linehaul workflow | Yard, Trailer Builder, standing linehauls |
| Getting started | Five-to-six-figure implementations, months of onboarding | Fast — but LTL-blind | Small-carrier pricing, no project team required |
- Quote replies are drafted, never auto-sent. Every AI-written email waits for your review — that's a control, not a limitation.
- Accessorials are flagged, priced by you. The AI records which accessorials a shipper's email mentioned; your dispatcher prices them into the final quote.
Broker moving LTL freight, not running a fleet? Keelway has a broker product — class-dispute triage, accessorial chasing, and carrier email automation for less-than-truckload brokerages. Keelway for LTL brokers →
Frequently asked questions
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Your own lane tariffs — six weight breaks, FAK class discounts, minimum-charge floors. No SMC3 license required.
Shipper emails in, rated draft reply out — extraction, classification, and rating on your own tariffs.
Yard management, Trailer Builder, and route optimization for consolidators and linehaul carriers.
Stop-sequenced routes, driver-app handoff, and standing linehaul schedules for small LTL fleets.
Free density-to-class calculator on the current 13-sub NMFC scale — the same math Keelway runs live.
The freight broker TMS — $799/mo flat, unlimited users, AI carrier email triage and FMCSA vetting built in.
Self-serve demo tour of the whole Keelway platform — dispatch, drivers, money, compliance.
Broker moving LTL freight? The broker product handles class disputes, accessorial chasing, and carrier email.
FMCSA authority, insurance, and fraud signals vetted before the first load moves.