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Freightro creates greater efficiencies for FTL and LTL shippers with new consolidated payment platform

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ATLANTA — Freightro, a platform for unified logistics management and procurement, is rehabilitating the convoluted freight payment environment with an all-in-one freight audit and payment portal.

 

FreightroPay enables shippers to quickly pay for all freight transportation in the same platform where they procure and manage contracted and spot freight, analyze transportation spend, and negotiate with providers in real time.

 

Logistics service providers on the platform benefit from instant remittance.

 

The Freightro STMS empowers users to connect with a vast network of shippers and providers, facilitating efficient and effective collaborations. With FreightroPay, freight management and accounting processes have now been consolidated into a single system. The new functionality reduces the need for full-time focus on freight audit and bill pay, allowing shippers to redirect precious labor resources.   

 

“Even at Fortune 500 companies, freight audit and payment is a highly manual process that often includes invoice verification, coding and multi-provider payments,” said Matt Costello, president and founder of Freightro. “We’ve created a tool that does all this at the click of a button. Shippers on the platform can now make one payment that gets distributed automatically to all their providers.” 

 

Schedule a demo with Freightro to see the new capabilities.  

 

Freightro gives shippers a holistic freight transportation experience, combining procurement, communication, document generation, networking and payment with smart technology and automation. But unlike over-digitized transportation management systems, Freightro blends technology with real-life customer support from transportation experts, a crucial element in the always-changing freight industry. 

 

The most useful supply chain technology must also have a low barrier to entry. That’s why the Freightro STMS is intuitive and incredibly easy to use, with even the most complex implementations taking less than a week. Once on the platform, shippers can optimize procurement with automated bid requests; select the best provider based on price, reliability and other metrics; and track performance or identify trends with Freightro’s analysis tools. Larger manufacturers use Freightro’s highly customizable transportation management system to de-silo their business, centralizing freight shipping operations across myriad locations. 

 

“For too long, shippers of all sizes have relied on a combination of convoluted spreadsheets, emailed invoices from multiple providers, and dedicated accounting teams to handle audits and various methods of payment. This results in errors and delays on top of wasted resources,” Costello said. “Unlike other FABP solutions, we’ve brought everything into a user-friendly dashboard in the platform, offering end-to-end visibility without extra tools or integrations so our users can redirect their accounting resources to revenue-generating activities.”

 

About Freightro 

 

Freightro empowers shippers to leave behind inefficient quoting, manual freight management and sporadic carrier communication, transforming how shippers and providers connect, communicate, procure and network. Freightro’s Shipper Transportation Management System (STMS) centralizes operations, optimizes supply chains and enhances efficiency across the freight ecosystem. 

 

Freightro’s STMS is the only platform designed with the shipper in mind. Quote, book, tender, track, pay, audit. That’s Freightro.  

Shippers need an easy-to-use, powerful transportation management system

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Remember those insurance commercials about the caveman?

 

The phrase “so easy a caveman could do it” seemed to be everywhere in the early 2000s.

 

The ads might have gotten a little annoying, but the sentiment was spot on.

 

For any technology, ease of use is crucial. That’s even more true in the constantly shifting logistics arena, where new challenges and supply chain disruptions arise daily. Shippers need technology that optimizes their processes, enabling logistics agility, right away; their transportation management system shouldn’t require a long onboarding process.

 

It’s been proven time and again that the most useful supply chain technology needs a low barrier to entry. That’s why the Freightro STMS is intuitive and incredibly easy to use. Even the most complex implementations take less than a week.

 

That’s true for small shippers, large enterprises and everyone in between.

 

Once on the platform, shippers can:

 

✅ Optimize procurement with automated bid requests

✅ Select the best provider based on price, reliability and other metrics

✅ Track performance or identify trends with Freightro’s analysis tools.

 

To really bring value to the table, supply chain tech has to be powerful and easy to use. 

 

An intuitive TMS tailored to shippers 

 

Freightro came to life to help shippers frustrated with the over-digitized nature of supply chain tech. There just wasn’t a great low cost, low effort, quick to market solution that was available to them without putting all their eggs in one basket, going all in on a provider and locking out the rest of the industry.  

 

In the supply chain technology landscape, many of the other TMS offerings are really managed transportation solutions tied to a brokerage. The tech is great, but users are tied to the broker. That’s why the Freightro created a platform to combined the technology shippers needed with the human element that’s crucial to success in this industry, without weighing shippers down with brokerage services. 

 

Freightro empowers shippers to spread freight out to multiple providers. This not only gives shippers better freight pricing, it keeps providers honest; shippers can compare pricing and see if they are getting charged a fair price. 

 

Every shipper has unique needs 


The Freightro STMS is incredibly powerful and enables shippers to optimize their freight management, end to end. But some shippers still have unique needs that should be addressed by technology. That’s when the Freightro team sets to work.

 

The STMS platform is flexible and incredibly customizable. The team can create a custom product, or adhere to any customer needs, instantly. It all adds up to the most customizable TMS in history.

 

Flexibility is the key in an industry where other TMS systems are tied down by system constraints and immovable tech. Small and medium-sized businesses find incredible value in the Freightro’s STMS, and the platform is also adaptable enough to give large enterprises the ability to change course with the dynamic shifts of the industry.

 

Many of those large enterprises operate in silos: If a company has 30 locations, they all operate like their own business. Freightro’s STMS gives them a centralized way to procure, pay for and track transportation spend across myriad locations. 

 

With Freightro, shippers of all sizes quickly learn that streamlining and optimizing freight management saves time and money but also significantly reduces shipping errors. 

 

Supply chain technology shouldn’t have a high barrier to entry. With Freighro’s STMS, you’ll begin saving time and money on shipping immediately.

Manufacturer turns to Freightro to streamline freight booking

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When booking freight, one large wholesale manufacturer had a standard routine: email three or four brokers and negotiate pricing on lanes via email, hoping they were getting the best price and disruptions didn’t occur along the way. The onerous practice had become policy; it’s just the way it was done.  

 

Freightro created its shipper transportation management system to break manufacturers and other shippers out of this broken booking cycle.

 

With the Freightro STMS, the manufacturer was able to quickly: 

 

✅ Gather real-time rates from myriad providers

✅ Negotiate pricing quickly using the in-app chat

✅ Track costs over time and tap into other analytics

 

Freightro shipper TMS helps manufacturers book loads at a cost savings.

 

The manufacturer now books 120 loads per month on the end-to-end freight management platform. After booking, he can manage the entire shipment process, including freight audit and pay, through the STMS.

 

“I can book a load in two minutes versus going back and forth with brokers for about 10-20 minutes. It saves me half the day. ”

 

Freightro STMS drives down shipping costs

 

Using Freightro, the company is paying around 20-30 cents less per lane, “which is saving us a bunch of money.” Initially, the company used three of their own brokers in the Freightro system, but soon found they were getting charged exorbitant rates.

 

“They were overcharging us anywhere between $100 all the way up to $1,000,” he said. “We explained to them, we’re going to go with the lowest bid, and now they’re bidding correctly.”

 

Freightro also enables the manufacturer to cultivate relationships with new carriers and stay in constant contact with providers during each shipment. Getting started is also a snap: no long integration process, no tedious training. 

 

“It’s not hard at all to use,” he said. “When I started using Freightro, I just fell in love with it.”

 

Other customers are attracted to the easy-to-use software backed by a team of dedicated freight experts ready to solve the trickiest transportation issues. With Freightro, users find that onerous manual tasks are automated, but they don’t lose the dedicated human customer support interactions that are very much needed in the ever-changing freight industry.

 

Customers like the usability of Freightro's transportation management system

 

Freightro is a holistic transportation procurement platform, combining procurement, communication, document generation, networking, and payment with smart technology and automation. Shippers can optimize procurement with automated bid requests; select the best provider based on price, reliability, and other metrics; and track performance or identify trends with Freightro’s analysis tools. Instead of taking half the day negotiating rates and booking loads, shippers can use Freightro to save time and money, redirecting resources into revenue-generating activities.

 

Sign up for a free Freightro STMS account to transform your shipping process from a cost center to a competitive advantage. 

STMS: A TMS designed with the shipper in mind

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LTL and truckload shippers need TMS technology tailored to their business. Why? Think about the biggest pain points when shipping freight. The Top 3 on your list are probably something like: 

 

💰 Inefficient Quoting: Relying on one carrier for fixed rates or combing through quotes from multiple environments is costly and time consuming

😵‍💫 Manual Management: Large, siloed teams manage operations inefficiently, wasting time and potentially creating errors 

☎️ Sporadic Communication: Poor visibility and a lack of active carrier communication makes transportation disruptions worse

 

To help untangle the knots of logistics and streamline shipping, manufacturers, retailers and other logistics users look to transportation management system technology. The promise of TMS applications is pretty broad: manage freight for carriers, brokers and every other supply chain stakeholder. However, that mandate encompasses a lot of technology that shippers don’t want. 

 

But most shippers just need targeted software that empowers them to: 

✅ Procure logistics services at competitive rates
✅ Communicate with providers

✅ Pay for transportation easily and seamlessly
✅ Automate repetitive shipping tasks

✅ Analyze KPIs and other metrics 

 

What shippers need is a single source of truth for real time market rates, ensuring they’re always paying a fair price for transportation.

 

They need a shipper transportation management system (STMS). 

 

How should an STMS for shippers streamline freight management?

 

Shippers need a single source of truth for transportation, a streamlined platform that empowers them to send and pay for freight. This shipper transportation management system should do nothing less than transform end-to-end shipper operations. How? In a proper shipper-focused platform, smart technology could revitalize everything from optimizing bidding and procurement to automating freight audit and bill payment.

 

The reality is that even the best TMS applications, ones that are pitched specifically at shippers, fall short. One reason is because in the rush to adapt TMS technology to shippers, many logistics technology companies forgot about the vital aspect of communication. Supply chain technology can only take shippers so far. They need an active chat-like connection to all parties involved in a shipment to make sure LTL, contracted truckload services and even spot loads don’t run into any issues. And if logistics pain points crop up? Active communication is the only way to keep the load on the road and ensure delivery.     

 

Shippers need automation with communication 

 

The Freightro platform is technology every shipper hoping to book freight with the best carrier, or at the lowest cost, needs. Freightro is  an active connection to dozens of carriers with capacity – these carriers need freight, and Freightro connects shippers to them. 

 

The platform’s real power is its ability to strengthen relationships between freight providers and their shippers. At Freightro, we’re providing truckload and LTL rates in an easy-to-use dashboard, but we’re also creating lasting partnerships. We’re strengthening the freight community. 

 

Freightro’s web-based platform can easily help truckload and LTL shippers find over-the-road capacity in even the tightest trucking markets, covering loads while maintaining the same service levels. Get started with Freightro by securing a sample quote for truckload or LTL services from a wide variety of carriers.

Freightro-sponsored angler Paul Marks takes the Bassmaster series by storm

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Paul Marks has a seemingly simple motto when it comes to competitive fishing: “You’ve got to keep an open mind; every day is completely different.”

 

Across his 11 Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments in 2025, he’s sometimes seen plans go out the window. Improvising is key.

 

“I mean, you might think you found the best spot on the lake in practice. Then in the tournament, there’s not a bass within a mile of there,” he told Freightro.

 

That’s why attitude, and perseverance, is so important.

 

“It’s definitely frustrating, but it’s just part of fishing,” he said. “There’s thousands of variables that go into every different day of fishing. You just get to be able to handle those variables through years of practice.”

 

Angler Paul Marks

To cap off his rookie season in the Bassmaster Elite Series, Marks has qualified for the 2026 Bassmaster Classic, known as the Super Bowl of Fishing. He’ll bring his deep love for the sport, and his experience handling the mental side of fishing, to Knoxville in March 2026.

Disruption and improvisation is the norm

 

It hasn’t been an easy path. Marks had to get used to competing against seasoned veterans at every stop on the series.

 

“It was kind of intimidating, the first few tournaments of the year, seeing all the people I’ve watched growing up,” the angler said. “But after a few of them, the nerves settled, and it was just like any other tournament.”

 

Marks’s top finish at Lake Hartwell didn’t make the next tournaments any easier. This year, he’s been in the money for only about half of his tournaments, finishing among the top competitors in three of them.

 

This adversity comes with the sport, he said:

 

“It just happens. Sometimes you just don’t land ‘em or you’re on the wrong part of the lake when all of them are biting in another spot. You just got to keep your head down and keep a positive mental attitude.

 

“It’s a tough sport. … It doesn’t seem like it, outside looking in, but it’s not easy. If I have a bad tournament, I just look forward to the next one, try to forget about it.

 

Despite the mental toughness that fishing demands, and the frustration that accompanies a bad day on the lake, the sport of fishing is trending up. The Covid shutdowns, he said, helped the sport: People wanted to be outside more and with the elimination of long commutes to work, folks had more hours to spend getting into fishing. New high school and college fishing programs are also creating a pipeline of anglers toward the top tiers of the sport.

 

That means even more anglers than ever before are experiencing the highs and lows of competitive fishing.

 

“It isn’t for everyone, but if you love it, you love  it,” he said. “There’s not really any way to explain it.”

 

Is freight shipping like competitive fishing?

 

While it’s a stretch to compare freight to fishing, shippers certainly have to learn how to deal with disruption. Freightro created its STMS to take the pressure off manufacturers and other shippers, giving them the space to improvise when logistics challenges arise. Instead of taking half the day negotiating rates and booking loads, Freightro streamlines the rating and booking process, so shipper can use that time to grow their business.

 

Freightro’s STMS blends  procurement, tracking, smart communication, and centralized billing into an easy-to-use platform. Suddenly, shipping is no longer a cost center but a strategic advantage and a tool for business growth. With Freightro, shippers can optimize bidding and procurement, automate freight audit and bill payment … and everything in between.