2 ideas are worth a look.
For freight brokers, selling to freight brokers and brokerage agents. We explored 6 ideas and searched for each one. 4 already exist.
Already exists, so we dropped them
- Carrier Vetting TrackerCarrier vetting with insurance and authority checks is already a core feature of broker compliance tools. carrierassure.com
- Check Call LoggerAutomated check calls and driver status updates already exist as a product. feeds.lanesurf.com
- Freight Document ScannerDocument capture and management for freight brokerages is already sold as a product. deelo.ai
- Freight Broker Onboarding KitFreight broker training courses and toolkits are a crowded existing market. freightbrokerbootcamp.com
Load Commission Splitter
Calculates agent and broker commission splits per load from load profit, with statements agents can check.
- Who pays
- Freight brokerage owner or freight agent
- The problem
- Splits vary by agent and by account, and the math runs off load profit after costs. Owners and agents end up rebuilding the same spreadsheet every settlement period and arguing over numbers.
- The gap
- The broker TMS platforms in the results cover load management, carrier sourcing, tracking, documentation and settlement, but none of them is described as computing per-load agent commission splits. The split rules themselves are described as varying widely (50/50, 60/40, 70/30, 80/20, flat fee, salary plus commission),
- Already out there
- Aljex aljex.com
Broker TMS covering load management, carrier sourcing, dispatch, documentation and settlement. No per-load agent commission split described.
- DAT Broker TMS dat.com
Rate cons, load acceptance and carrier tracking for brokers. Commission split logic not mentioned.
- Truckstop truckstop.com
Guide to broker software categories including track and trace. Notes brokerages layer tools that do not talk to each other, which is the opening for a small split calculator.
- Aljex aljex.com
- People asking for it
- How Freight Broker Commission Split Works kopflogisticsgroup.com
Lists the common split structures: 50/50, 60/40, 70/30, 80/20, flat fee, salary plus commission. Splits vary.
- Commissions freight broker reddit.com
Broker describes commission costing in the 10 to 15 percent range, lower on higher margin accounts and higher on lower margin accounts.
- What is a good split for a freight agent reddit.com
Ten year broker weighing starting his own brokerage or agency and asking what split is normal.
- How Freight Broker Commission Split Works kopflogisticsgroup.com
- The big assumption
- Brokerage owners will pay for a separate split calculator instead of keeping the spreadsheet they already trust.
- Test it this week
- Post in r/FreightBrokers and two broker Facebook groups asking owners to send a redacted sample settlement sheet, then hand-calculate three agents' splits from it and ask if the output matches what they pay.
Detention Time Tracker
Captures arrival and departure times at shippers and receivers and auto-builds detention claims with the paperwork attached.
- Who pays
- Freight broker
- The problem
- Brokers spend half the day arguing over detention times. Shippers fight every penny and carriers demand high hourly rates, and the broker is stuck in the middle as go-between.
- The gap
- Toro TMS does detention management but it is built for carriers, not brokers. The broker side in the results is described as a manual go-between role: the broker oversees the claim and chases the shipper. Nothing in the results is a broker-side tool that timestamps arrivals and departures and assembles the claim packag
- Already out there
- Toro TMS torotms.com
Detention management inside a carrier dispatch and billing workflow. Carrier side, not broker side.
- MacroPoint alvys.com
Location tracking used by brokers for visibility. A broker quoted says tracking helps when requesting detention or layovers, but it is tracking, not claim generation.
- DAT Broker TMS dat.com
Broker TMS with rate cons and carrier location. No detention claim workflow described.
- Toro TMS torotms.com
- People asking for it
- Detention claims are becoming a nightmare reddit.com
Broker says he spends half his day arguing over detention times, shippers fight every penny and carriers demand $100/hr for dry van.
- Spent 9 hours at receiver reddit.com
Broker says some customers simply do not pay detention and he sometimes pays out of pocket for wasted time.
- Brokers make more money when you don't file detention reddit.com
Broker describes policy of $50 an hour after 2 hours per rate confirmation, with shippers paying $25, $50 or $65 an hour.
- Detention claims are becoming a nightmare reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Brokers will trust an outside tool's timestamps enough to send them to a shipper as proof, rather than relying on the carrier's own records.
- Test it this week
- Ask five brokers in r/FreightBrokers or by DM to forward one recent detention email thread, then manually build the claim package from it and ask whether they would have sent it as-is.