FreightFriend by MercuryGate: The First Social Network for the Transporation Industry

FreightFriend, the Social Network for Brokers and Carriers
FreightFriend is a free load and truck posting web site where carriers and brokers control who has access to their postings, providing a private but centralized network.

A full-featured load and truck posting service, FreightFriend provides the most intuitive approach to posting, searching and matching freight with available equipment.

Because partners have other friends’ loads or trucks there too, they visit the site frequently and keep their postings up to date.

FreightFriend is perfect for carriers, shippers, brokers, 3PLs and freight management firms who only want to share information with companies they trust. They can keep their current information in one place, knowing that friends – and only friends – will have constant access.

While public load boards fill a real need, they come at a cost – a lot of unknown companies bidding to carry the freight. Private boards are often useful too, but they’re inconvenient to carriers with multiple clients asking them to check their bid portals.

FreightFriend solves the dilemma with a single service where carriers can easily communicate with all of their clients and brokers can find available capacity from carriers they trust.

Relationship Based Load and Truck Posting Service
FreightFriend helps to manage the relationship between carriers and brokers & shippers. It is easy to invite new “friends”, view the current status of each friend, and easily remove friends if necessary. Each company has their own private network that is not visible to others.

Import and Export Data from Multiple Sources
Data can be manually entered using FreightFriend’s simple and intuitive user interface or integrated with in-house systems. Integration will automatically post loads or trucks and remove them once they are covered. You can receive automatic updates directly from your friend’s in-house systems too.

Intelligent Searching & Matching Functionality
The real power of FreightFriend is its sophisticated logic for matching loads and equipment. Matched loads can trigger alerts or “screen pop-ups” to your company and the matched company.

An easy-to-use dashboard shows available loads and associated matches. FreightFriend is constantly refreshing with current matches so what you see is real time data.

FreightFriend Plus
FreightFriend Plus is a fee-based service specifically designed for truckload brokers and 3PLs needing to manage large carrier databases to provide maximum capacity for moving their shipments. In addition to the standard features of FreightFriend, Plus offers these features;

• Enter trucks and lanes for carriers to be visible only to your company and matching only to your freight.
• Batch truck entry feature can enter and match 10 trucks in 10 seconds!
• Effectively manage truck and lane data or large database of non-relationship carriers without giving them access to your loads. Once a strong relationship is established, invite them to be your friend and view your loads. At this point, they will be updating their truck and lane data themselves.
• Auto or manual email matches to friend or non-friend carriers.
• Coordinate searching and matching between the trucks you enter and those entered by your friends.