Loads post in your customer portals and land in your inbox 24 hours a day. Manifold makes sure your team quotes every single one — at the right price, faster than any competitor.
Your Truck Is Available. Find the Load It Was Made For.
A dispatcher’s hardest job isn’t finding loads — it’s finding the right load for a specific truck that needs to move right now. Match-a-Truck is built for exactly that moment. Enter the truck’s location and where it needs to go. Match-a-Truck searches every portal for the perfect fit — right lane, right equipment, right timing — and bids on it. On supported portals, it books automatically. Dispatchers stop guessing and start placing.
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Precision over volumeStop spraying bids. Find the one load that fits this truck today and win it.
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Built for backhaulsMatch-a-Truck solves the dispatcher’s most common headache before the driver finishes unloading.
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Bid or book automaticallyOn portals that support it, it books outright when the right load appears. One less call to make.
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Quote Every Broker Portal
Manifold aggregates all your broker portals into one screen, flags loads that match your lanes and margins, and submits bids in seconds. You stop missing loads and start winning more of the ones that matter.
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Capture Spot Emails Too
A big portion of your spot business still comes in through email — brokers and shippers sending opportunities directly to your team. Manifold reads your inbox, identifies those spot opportunities, extracts the load details automatically, and surfaces them in the same view as your portal loads. Reply from Manifold and it goes out from your own address.
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First Quote Often Wins
Manifold submits bids in seconds, not minutes. When a load posts, you’re already quoted before most competitors have even seen it. That speed advantage compounds across thousands of loads a week.
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Better Rates with Better Data
Manifold gives you lane-level data behind every bid — your own history, current market rates, and margin guidance — so you stop leaving money on the table.
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Never Miss a Spot Opportunity
Manifold captures every portal load and every spot opportunity sent via email in one unified view. Your team stops context-switching between browser tabs and inboxes and starts working from a single prioritized list.
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Quote Faster Than Your Competition
Manifold gives your team the tools to quote every qualifying load within seconds of it posting — building a reputation with shippers for reliability that turns into preferred status over time.
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Automate the High-Volume Lanes
Once you’ve dialed in your pricing rules, Manifold submits bids on qualifying lanes 24/7 — including overnight, weekends, and while your team is focused on other customers.
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Win Rate and Margin Visibility
Manifold tracks every bid outcome and surfaces the patterns — where you’re winning, where you’re losing, and what margin you’re actually hitting. That visibility changes how you price.
The problem
The Loads Are There. Your Team Can’t See Them All.
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Portals post around the clock. Teams work 9 to 5.
Loads drop early morning, late at night, and on weekends. Every missed load is revenue that went to a faster competitor.
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Humans can only watch so many portals at once.
Even your best people develop habits — the same portals, in the same order. And spot emails get buried. Manifold has no routine and no blind spots.
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The first quote often wins the load.
Shippers and brokers move fast. A load that’s been sitting for 10 minutes is already half-covered. Manifold quotes in seconds — giving you a structural speed advantage no manual team can match.
How it works
Start Manual. Automate When Ready.
Manifold isn’t a black box. You start with manual bidding tools that give you more control, not less — and automate once your pricing rules are dialed in.
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Aggregate Every Opportunity
Connect your customer portals and email inbox. Every load — from portals and from email — flows into a single prioritized view. No more tab-switching. No more buried emails.
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Score and Prioritize
Manifold scores each load against your lanes, margins, and history. Your team sees the best opportunities first with pricing guidance already attached.
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Bid Manually or Automatically
Quote manually on loads that need human judgment. Set rules for lanes you know well and let Manifold auto-bid 24/7. You stay in control of what gets automated and when.
Two channels
Every Load, Every Source.
Spot freight doesn’t all come from the same place. Manifold captures loads however they arrive — from your customer portals and from your inbox — and puts them in a single view.
Portal Bidding
Every Portal. One View.
Your customers post loads on portals — bid/auction boards, shipper portals, whatever system they use. The problem is you’re watching dozens of them across different logins, different interfaces, and different posting schedules. Loads drop at 11pm and your team doesn’t see them until 8am. Manifold connects to every portal you use and pulls every load into a single, organized view. Your team works one screen. Manifold works everything else.
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All portals connectedEvery major broker and shipper portal supported. New portals added continuously based on customer demand.
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Loads scored and ranked automaticallyEach load is evaluated against your lanes, equipment, and margin thresholds before your team ever sees it. Best fits rise to the top.
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Bid manually or let rules runSubmit quotes by hand on loads that need judgment. Set auto-bidding rules for lanes you know well and let Manifold quote 24/7 without anyone in the loop.
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No more overnight missesManifold watches every portal continuously. Loads that post at midnight get quoted at midnight. Your off-hours become coverage, not gaps.
LOAD VIEW
• Live
DAL → ATL
Flatbed · 44,000 lbs · Tomorrow
Portal
Auto-bid
CHI → HOU
Dry Van · 38,500 lbs · 2 days
Portal
Review
LAX → PHX
Reefer · 41,200 lbs · Today
Portal
Auto-bid
MEM → NAS
Flatbed · 36,000 lbs · Tomorrow
Portal
Review
+47 more loads in view
Email Bidding
Your Inbox Is a Load Board Too.
A significant chunk of spot freight still moves through email. Brokers sending spot opportunities to carrier contacts. Shippers reaching out to broker lists directly. These loads land in your inbox — formatted differently by every sender, buried under replies, easy to miss. Manifold reads your inbox, identifies every spot opportunity, extracts the load details, and puts it in the same view as your portal loads. When you’re ready to respond, you reply from Manifold. It goes out from your own email address. The thread stays intact.
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AI identifies spot opportunities from any email formatEvery sender writes differently. Manifold reads body text, tables, attached rate sheets, embedded links, and forwarded messages — and surfaces the spot opportunity regardless of format.
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Load details extracted automaticallyOrigin, destination, equipment type, weight, dates, and target rate are all pulled from the email before your team sees it. No manual data entry.
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Reply from Manifold, sent from your addressYour response goes out under your name, from your email domain. The recipient sees no difference. The full thread stays in your inbox exactly where it should be.
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Same speed advantage as portalsSpot emails surface in your view within seconds of landing in your inbox — not after someone checks email an hour later. First response wins here too.
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sarah.miller@acmeshipping.com
Quick quote needed — Chicago to Dallas
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AI BUCKET 1
Opportunity Detection
Is this a spot load? Scans the subject, sender, and email body to decide.
✓ Spot load — continues✗ Not a spot load — ignored
SPOT LOAD CONFIRMED
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AI BUCKET 2
Data Extraction
Reads the email from every angle to pull the load details.
BodyTablesLinksImagesAttachments
✓ LOAD READY IN MANIFOLD
CHI → DAL
Dry Van · 44,200 lbs · Fri pickup
EmailReview
✓ Replies go out from your email address. The full thread stays intact in your inbox.
🚚 A Dispatcher’s Best Friend
Match-a-Truck: Precision Over Volume.
Regular Spot Bidding is a volume game — quote as many loads as possible. Match-a-Truck is what a dispatcher reaches for when precision matters: you have a specific truck available, and it finds the exact load that fits.
Regular Spot Bidding
Cast a Wide Net
Set pricing rules, connect your portals, and bid on every load that meets your criteria. Great for growing your book and filling capacity across multiple trucks.
Match-a-Truck
Find the Perfect Load
A dispatcher enters the truck’s location, destination, and equipment. Match-a-Truck searches every portal for the load that fits — and bids on it (or books it automatically). One truck, one perfect load.
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Location-Aware Load Matching
Enter the truck’s current location and destination. Match-a-Truck searches loads that fit the routing so dispatchers aren’t calling on loads that won’t work.
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Built for Backhauls
Match-a-Truck finds the best-paying backhaul load before the driver even finishes unloading — the most common dispatcher headache, solved.
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Bid or Book Automatically
On supported portals, Match-a-Truck books the load outright when the right one appears. One less task the dispatcher has to circle back on.
📊 The Review Tab
Your Pricing Strategy, Always Getting Sharper.
Setting a bidding rule isn’t a one-time decision. Rates shift, lanes get competitive, margins drift. The Review tab shows you exactly how each of your rules is performing — week over week — so your pricing strategy compounds over time instead of going stale.
Three weeks of history alongside this weekSee at a glance whether a rule is trending up, down, or flat — and whether this week is an outlier or a pattern.
Full rule transparencySee the exact pricing logic that was used — every parameter, every condition — right next to the results it produced.
Adjust and re-deploy immediatelySpot a rule leaving margin on the table? Tweak it directly from the Review tab and the update goes live instantly.
Your data, in the platformEvery outcome feeds back into your history. The longer you run, the smarter your pricing gets.
Auto Bid Rules
ManageReview
Customer
Lead Time
Test Name change
Rank 1 • Running • Suggest only
Washington Area
Rank 2 • Running • Suggest only
Test Price Modifiers
Rank 3 • Running • Suggest only
Rank 2 • Running • Suggest Only • 110% + $0 • Dry Van • Any miles • Origin: Seattle, WA (50 mi) • Destinations: San Francisco, CA (50 mi)
Week
Bids
Won
Avg Submitted
Won Revenue
Avg Margin
Pricing
6/7–6/13
18
5
$2,480
$12,650
$390
6% + $50
6/14–6/20
22
7
$2,635
$18,445
$430
7% + $75
6/21–6/27
20
6
$2,575
$15,450
$455
8% + $75
Shipments: 6
Load
Customer
Lane
Miles
Submitted
Buy Rate
Margin
PR-3001
Northstar Foods
DAL → ATL
781
$2,650
$2,210
$440
PR-3002
Northstar Foods
FTW → CLT
1,036
$3,180
$2,760
$420
PR-3003
Northstar Foods
AUS → JAX
1,014
$2,860
$2,465
$395
PR-3004
Northstar Foods
SAT → ORL
1,165
$3,050
$2,360
$450
The platform
Everything Your Team Needs to Quote at Scale.
Spot Bidding in Manifold is a complete toolkit — not just a portal connector.
Core
Universal Portal Aggregation
Every load from every customer portal in a single view. Your team stops managing browser tabs and starts working from one prioritized screen.
All major broker and shipper portals supported
New portals added continuously based on customer demand
Loads scored and ranked by fit to your lanes and margins
Filter by customer, lane, equipment type, or margin threshold
Core
Email Spot Capture
Connect your inbox and Manifold reads every incoming email. Spot opportunities sent via email get identified, load details get extracted automatically, and they surface in the same view as your portal loads.
AI identifies spot opportunities from any email format
Load details parsed from body text, tables, links, images, and attachments
Reply from Manifold — goes out from your own email address
Full conversation thread stays intact in your inbox
Automation
Auto-Bidding Rules
Build pricing rules around the lanes you know. Manifold submits bids automatically on qualifying loads — overnight, on weekends, during your team’s busiest moments.
Rules-based logic you control: lane, margin, customer, equipment
Bids submitted in seconds of a load posting
24/7 coverage with no staffing cost
Alerts for loads that fall outside your rules
Intelligence
Pricing Data and Bid History
Every bid recorded. Win/loss outcomes tracked. Manifold builds a lane-by-lane picture of what’s winning, what’s losing, and at what margin — so your pricing gets smarter with every load.
Live market rate data attached to every load
Your own bid history and win rate by lane and customer
Margin trend reporting across your book of business
Export to Power BI, Tableau, or your existing BI tools
The Numbers Speak for Themselves.
15x
More Loads Quoted
Same team size, covering every portal and every inbox
11%+
More Revenue Per Load
Better data behind every bid means better rates on every load you win
14%+
Higher Win Rate
Speed plus data plus the right pricing rules equals more freight won
“In the first 90 days, we saw an 11% increase in spot revenue. That’s a $2 million annual impact.”
Cole Stevens CSO, Stevens Transport
$2M Annual Impact
“The number of quoting opportunities is 10–15 times what it used to be.”
Tom O’Donnell VP Logistics, Leonard’s
15x More Opportunities
“In two months with Manifold, we’ve moved from 10 people watching 18 websites to 3 people watching 4 websites, and that will eventually only be 1.”
Anonymous Customer Slack chat with our team
10 → 3 People
“Our rate per mile with broker customers has gone up $0.30 — a huge increase — and we’re booking half as many broker loads as before.”
Brian Hazzard COO, Christenson
+$0.30 Rate Per Mile
🏆 See It for Yourself
Never Miss a Single Spot Opportunity Again.
Request a demo and we’ll show you exactly how many loads your team is missing — and what winning them is worth.