Pricing & Bid Management Trucking Solution

McLeod Software

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Maximize Profitability

How McLeod Empowers Smarter Pricing, Bidding, and Order Management

Protecting your profit margins starts with accurate pricing, bidding, and efficient order management. McLeod offers transport management system (TMS) tools backed by real-world data to manage bids, streamline order workflows, analyze profitability, and strengthen customer relationships.

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Customer Service

McLeod’s Customer Service view brings Asset and Brokered moves into one convenient dashboard. CSRs can search by Order number, BOL, or reference number to quickly locate loads and manage exceptions. Track late shipments, service failures, missing paperwork, and billing status—all from a single view designed to keep your team proactive and your customers satisfied.

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Contract Rate Automation

Set freight rates and charges by customer or location in advance. When entering an order, Auto Rating automatically applies the correct rate by matching key parameters in the database to save time and reduce errors.

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Bid and Rate Optimization

Accelerate the bidding process with automated bid management. Import shipper bid packages, analyze opportunities against history and market rates, and track awarded lanes to improve efficiency and profitability.

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Shipment Consolidation and Manifesting

Maximize trailer capacity and simplify partial shipment management by consolidating shipments. The Partial Shipment module allows for flexible cross-docking, order adjustments, and rerouting within a manifest. The customizable planning screen provides a quick view of order information in a selected manifest.

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Quick Quote and Order Capture

Quickly enter and share accurate quotes by origin and destination, track past quotes and generate orders based on current quotes. This tool automatically logs each quote and schedules follow-ups.

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Multicurrency Accounting

Process transactions in multiple currencies and manage tax requirements. Track currency at the field level with automatic conversions and tools for tax calculations and conversions.

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Short Haul

Drivers can submit short-haul ticket data and capture load images directly from a mobile device or tablet using the McLeod Logix Anywhere mobile app. The app automatically sends verified information for creating and delivering orders.

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Target and Max Pay Logic

Target rates help brokers determine the rate to offer a carrier, based on setup within the TMS. For customers using MPact, the system provides current market data to compare rates and ensure competitiveness.

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Real-Time Market Pricing

MPact.Rate gives you access to freight rate data, including Rate Trends, Rate Analysis, and Order Trends, collected daily from over 1,000 McLeod customers through Market Insight. It delivers current rate trends and analytics and is free if you contribute anonymously.

Frequently Asked Questions on Pricing Order Management

Contract rate automation ensures the correct rate is applied automatically at the time of order entry, eliminating manual rate lookups and billing errors. Systems like McLeod’s Auto Rating module pull from pre-configured contracts and lane data, reducing disputes and protecting margins on every load which is especially critical for high-volume carriers and brokers.

Top brokers use market intelligence platforms that pull real-time rate data across thousands of carriers and lanes. McLeod’s MPact.Rate gives brokers access to aggregated freight rate trends from 1,000+ McLeod customers, allowing them to set accurate target and max pay rates based on current market conditions rather than outdated benchmarks.

A unified customer service dashboard that displays both asset and brokered moves, tracks exceptions, and enables fast shipment search is essential for high-volume operations. Real-time visibility into order status, combined with automated quote logging and follow-up scheduling, allows teams to be proactive rather than reactive with customers.

Bid management software automates the process of receiving, evaluating, and responding to freight rate bids and RFPs. For trucking companies, this includes importing bid packages, analyzing lane profitability, applying automated rate logic, and tracking follow-ups, all of which McLeod’s Pricing & Order Management tools handle within the core TMS.

Contact McLeod for More Information

From accurate rate data to smarter bid processing and profitability insights, our tools help your team make faster, profitable decisions. Talk to us today to see how our tools can support your business.

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