Free tools
Tools for the paperwork end of brokering. All of them run entirely in your browser — no account, nothing uploaded, nothing stored. Close the tab and it is gone.
They are free and they stay free. If you want the quote desk they belong to, that is the waitlist.
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USDOT and MC number lookup
Look up a carrier’s operating authority, the insurance actually on file, and any revocation or suspension order — each line dated, with the source named.
FMCSA’s public data is split between complete tables that stopped updating on 14 May 2026 and live tables that only hold carriers whose status changed. Read either alone and you get a confident wrong answer, so this reads both and says which one each field came from.
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Email quote parser
Paste a quote-request email. It pulls out the lane, equipment, ship date, weight and accessorials, flags what the shipper left out, and drafts the reply.
Handles the way requests actually arrive — no labels, prose, lowercase, reply chains, dot-leader shipper templates. Where it cannot be sure, it says so instead of guessing.
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Bill of lading generator
Fill and print a straight BOL. Every field shows the regulation that requires it and what leaving it blank costs you in a claim.
The five items 49 CFR 373.101 requires, the 49 U.S.C. 80103(b)(2) marking duty, and the fields that are only there because a blank one costs money — separated, so practice is never presented as law.
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Freight density calculator
Freight density from dimensions and weight, with the arithmetic shown — the number every classification starts from, and the one the carrier’s dimensioner measures.
It deliberately does not hand you a class. NMFTA classifies on four characteristics, a commodity’s own NMFC item overrides density, and the density scale has moved twice since 2025 — the real breaks live in the licensed NMFC, not in a blog table.
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Fuel surcharge calculator
Surcharge per mile and per load, then the same load costed against every regional EIA index.
The index nobody names in the contract is usually where the money is. This shows the spread rather than describing it.
Why these ones
Because the searches say so, and we checked rather than guessed. Across the terms this site tracks, what ranks is a tool rather than an article — bill-of-lading results are full of printable forms, rate-confirmation results are almost entirely generators, and fuel-surcharge results carry three calculators. Where a broker wants a document, an explainer is the wrong answer, so we shipped the document and explained it alongside.
The explanations are in the glossary, and where a tool has a page behind it the two are written together: the bill of lading entry and the generator quote the same regulation, checked against the same source on the same day. How that checking works is on the methodology page.