Freight Quote From a Document or Image

Drop in a PO, BOL, or packing list. We read the shipment off the page and come back with live LTL and truckload rates.

PDF, photo, Word, or Excel
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Drop a PO, BOL, load sheet, or email screenshot

Drag and drop, or browse your files

PDF, image (JPG/PNG/WebP/GIF), Word (.docx), or Excel (.xlsx) — up to 4 MB. Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V.

One shipment per document today — whole lane lists are coming. Have one now? Send it to our team and we'll price all of it.

Allison

AI freight agent · Freight Sidekick

Allison is an AI freight agent

Not a form in a chat skin, and not a person typing. She reads your document, spots what it left out, and prices the load through our live rating engine — frontier AI wrapped in our own freight rules.

Freight Sidekick is a freight brokerage agency. Ask for a human at any point and a broker takes over the thread. More about Allison.

How to quote a shipment from a document

Upload, confirm, book. The document does the typing you would otherwise do yourself.

Step 1

Upload the document

Anything with the shipment on it — a PO, bill of lading, packing list, order confirmation, or a photo of a printed sheet. PDF, image, Word, or Excel. One document per quote.

Step 2

Finish it in the chat

Allison tells you what she read off the page and asks about anything she couldn't. Correct a number by saying so. The document is one click away in the header whenever you want to check her against it.

Step 3

Get the rate

The same LTL, partial, and truckload engine as the full quote form — live carrier rates, not ballpark estimates. Book from the rate cards, or save the quote with an email.

What Allison pulls off a PO or BOL

Reading text off a page is the easy part. Knowing which numbers on a freight document matter — and which ones will misprice the load — is the job.

She reads the whole page

Headers, footers, stamps, table cells, and handwriting — on a clean PDF, a crooked scan, or a photo taken on the dock with a phone.

She knows a shipper from a bill-to

Load confirmations are full of carrier, broker, and billing addresses. She skips those blocks on purpose, so a dispatcher's city doesn't get read as your pickup.

She counts handling units, not pieces

One pallet holding fifty 50 lb bags is a single handling unit at 2,500 lb. Read that wrong and the class, the deck space, and the price all move.

She splits totals into per-unit weight

“3 pallets, 3,744 lbs” becomes 3 × 1,248 lb — and she flags the division, so you confirm the number instead of trusting it.

She leaves gaps blank instead of guessing

A ZIP, date, weight, or dimension that isn't on the page comes back empty, not filled in with something plausible. Where a misread would change the price, she asks.

She leaves freight class to the math

Class isn’t estimated. Once dimensions and weight are confirmed, it comes from real density on the same scale as our freight class calculator.

None of which makes her infallible — a machine is reading a page. Which is exactly why she reads the shipment back to you before she quotes, and why correcting her takes one message.

What your PO or BOL has to show

One shipment per document for now. Most order paperwork already has everything else; if something is missing, Allison asks for it in the chat rather than failing the upload.

Two cities, or two ZIP codes
A ship date, or a pickup window
At least one freight line: quantity, packaging, and weight
Dimensions — LTL rates come from density, so Allison asks if they aren't on the page

Temperature, liftgate, and inside-delivery notes are picked up whenever the document states them.

In development

A whole lane list, priced in one pass

Drop in a spreadsheet with multiple lanes on it and get a quote for every one — each read as its own shipment, priced against live carrier rates, in a single upload. That’s what we’re building right now.

Have a list today? Send it to our team and we’ll price the whole thing for you.

Weight is the number documents get wrong most

A PO total is not the per-unit weight the rate engine needs. Four pallets at 2,000 lb total is a 2,000 lb shipment. Four pallets at 2,000 lb each is 8,000 lb — same document, four times the freight, priced as a completely different load.

So Allison flags any division she had to make, and confirms the weight with you before she quotes.

Nothing books itself

An upload never books a shipment. Allison quotes it in the conversation, and you save the quote with an email if you want it kept. The file stays private — never public, never sold — and our AI provider reads it only to pull out the shipment details.

Freight quote from a document: FAQs

What documents can I upload?

PDFs, photos or screenshots, Word, and Excel. One document per quote.

Am I talking to a real person?

No — Allison is an AI freight assistant, not a person. She reads the document, asks about anything she couldn't make out, and quotes the shipment through our live rating engine. Freight Sidekick is a freight brokerage agency, and a real broker follows up any time you ask, or when a shipment needs one.

Can I quote several shipments from one document?

Not yet — right now each upload is quoted as a single shipment, so a document holding several loads won't come back right. Multi-shipment documents are in development. If you have a list of lanes today, send it through our RFP form and our team will price the whole list.

What if the document is missing details?

Allison asks for what's missing in the chat, the same way she'd quote a shipment you describe to her.

What if it reads something wrong?

Tell Allison. She reads back what she got from the document before she quotes, and a correction in the chat is all it takes. Per-unit weight is the one worth checking — documents often state a shipment total.

Can I get a real, bookable rate?

Yes. Live LTL, partial, and truckload rates, same engine as the full quote flow.

Do you keep my document?

It's stored privately and read by our AI provider only to pull out the shipment details. Never public, never sold, never shared beyond that.

Do I need an account?

No. Without one you get three document reads a day; sign in for a much higher limit. You'll need an email only to save the quote.

Is it free?

Yes. It's free to use, and you don't need an account to try it.

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Prefer to type the shipment in?

The full quote form takes the same rates. Use it when you have extra stops or equipment options the document does not cover.

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