FreightScout vs GoodShip
Most freight software watches your business. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it. GoodShip describes itself as a platform for freight orchestration, procurement and pricing, and it names shippers, brokers and carriers as its audiences. Its own description of the broker use case is bidding: responding to RFPs faster and winning the right freight. FreightScout works both sides of the business. On the revenue side it finds the right prospects, coaches real sales meetings, quotes live freight, and runs the follow up that wins the business. On the ops side it executes the loads after they are won, attributing margin to the rep and the dispatcher who earned it and running an agent that proposes the next action and carries it out against real TMS data once a human approves. It runs in production today on 143,156 real loads. If you run annual RFPs and want a better read on your network before you bid, GoodShip is a credible platform and worth your time. If the question is what happens in the sales meeting before the freight is won and what happens to the load after, that is the part FreightScout does.
What GoodShip says it does
GoodShip describes itself as a platform for freight orchestration, procurement and pricing, and it names shippers, brokers and carriers as its audiences. Its own description of the broker use case is bidding: responding to RFPs faster and winning the right freight. Everything in that sentence comes from their own published pages, quoted below with the date each one was captured.
What FreightScout wins and runs
Most freight software watches your business. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it. FreightScout works both sides of the business. On the revenue side it finds the right prospects, coaches real sales meetings, quotes live freight, and runs the follow up that wins the business. On the ops side it executes the loads after they are won, attributing margin to the rep and the dispatcher who earned it and running an agent that proposes the next action and carries it out against real TMS data once a human approves. It runs in production today on 143,156 real loads.
When you would want each
If you run annual RFPs and want a better read on your network before you bid, GoodShip is a credible platform and worth your time. If the question is what happens in the sales meeting before the freight is won and what happens to the load after, that is the part FreightScout does.
GoodShip in their own words
Every statement below is a direct quotation from GoodShip's own website, with the date it was captured. We describe our product; they describe theirs.
GoodShip is the all-in-one platform for freight orchestration, procurement, and pricing, built for transportation teams by transportation teams.
Brokers use GoodShip to respond to RFPs faster, win the right freight, and strengthen customer relationships.
Questions people actually ask
Is FreightScout an alternative to GoodShip?
Partly, and it is worth being precise about which part. GoodShip describes itself as a platform for freight orchestration, procurement and pricing, and it names shippers, brokers and carriers as its audiences. Its own description of the broker use case is bidding: responding to RFPs faster and winning the right freight. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it, which covers finding the prospect, coaching the meeting, quoting the lane, running the follow up, and executing the load afterward. Where the two overlap, that is a real choice. Where they do not, running both is reasonable.
Do I have to replace GoodShip to use FreightScout?
No. FreightScout reads your existing systems rather than replacing them, and it runs in production today on 143,156 real loads inside brokerages that kept the tools they already had.