Price Check and Price Check Plus Overview
Price Check and Price Check Plus offers carriers and shippers pricing insights for transportation costs to empower decision making and maximize profitability.
Price Check – Generates pricing information based on vehicle and location information
Price Check Plus – Builds on the information offered in Price Check and includes the date and dispatched price as well as a predictive dispatch price within an upper and lower band
All clients can access at any time from the log-in home page by clicking on the Intelligence dropdown
When searching for vehicles on the Search Vehicles page, click on the drop down on the dispatch card and the Price Check
For Shippers on the Create Listing page, click on Check price under the Vehicle Information section
How Price Check and Price Check Plus Work
When accessing Price Check from the drop down on the Intelligence tab:
- Enter load information in the filters on the left side of screen to view pricing information for comparable loads
- For shippers, there will be a link to Create New Listing to easily create a listing from the information populated in the filters
- Note: Users with the Driver role will not have access to Price Check information
- Note: Users with the Driver role will not have access to Price Check information
View of Price Check from the Intelligence tab for an owner role
If user is not an owner role, a message will appear to ask admin to sign up
View of Price Check Plus from the Intelligence tab for subscribers
View from Search Vehicles
When displaying Price Check or Price Check Plus for multi-vehicle loads, there is a drop down to select the vehicle in the load to display for both Price Check and Price Check Plus
View from Create Listings
A slide out box will appear when clicking on the Check Price button in Create Listings
Value of Price Check Plus
Price Check Plus is designed to help you maximize profitability and accelerate your speed to transport.
The Predicted Price is one of the most valuable tools available in Price Check Plus and is built on industry-leading AI to provide real-time data reflecting current market trends.
The high and low price represent upper and lower bounds for what would be considered a reasonable price for the listing based on historical trends.
Use the predicted price along with the low range and the high range to make decisions that is best for your company.
- For a shipper: choose a price closer to the upper or lower bands depending on how fast you need the vehicle to move.
- For a carrier: review the price in relation to the upper and lower bands to determine how quickly you may need to act if you are interested in transporting.
The Estimated Time To Dispatch is the estimated time for a listing posted at the predicted price to get dispatched to a carrier.
The time to dispatch is built from the same AI model as the predictive price.
If the shipper needs to it to move it faster, the price can be increased.
- The estimated time to dispatch is not able to predict anything over 36 hours.
Use the Dispatch Date and Dispatched Price on the comparable loads to see if the negotiated rate was different than the listing and see how long it took to get dispatched at the listed rate.
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