FreightScout vs Highway
FreightScout: best as the layer that runs booking, check calls, and exceptions on the TMS you already keep, next to Highway.
FreightScout is the Highway alternative for brokerages that want the load run on the TMS they keep, while carrier identity stays its own job. Highway describes itself as a provider of carrier identity solutions, helping brokers verify identity and enforce a carrier standard across the life of a load, with continuous verification rather than one time onboarding. Most freight software watches your business. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it. FreightScout is one product covering the whole load. It finds the right prospects, coaches real sales meetings, quotes live freight, and runs the follow up that wins the business. It then executes the loads that 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 148,220 real loads. This is not a competitor and it would be dishonest to frame it as one. Fraud and double brokering are real and a verification layer is worth having. FreightScout does not verify carrier identity. If you need that, buy it. Nothing on this page suggests otherwise.
FreightScout publishes this page.
What Highway says it does
Highway describes itself as a provider of carrier identity solutions, helping brokers verify identity and enforce a carrier standard across the life of a load, with continuous verification rather than one time onboarding. That is our reading of their own published pages, and the pages we read are listed below with the day we read each one.
What FreightScout wins and runs
Most freight software watches your business. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it. FreightScout is one product covering the whole load. It finds the right prospects, coaches real sales meetings, quotes live freight, and runs the follow up that wins the business. It then executes the loads that 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 148,220 real loads.
When you would want each
This is not a competitor and it would be dishonest to frame it as one. Fraud and double brokering are real and a verification layer is worth having. FreightScout does not verify carrier identity. If you need that, buy it. Nothing on this page suggests otherwise.
Where this reading comes from
We do not reproduce Highway's copy here. Everything above is our own description of what they publish. These are the pages we read and the day we read them, so you can check us against the source.
- https://highway.com · read 2026-08-07
Questions people actually ask
How is FreightScout different from Highway?
Not really, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. Highway describes itself as a provider of carrier identity solutions, helping brokers verify identity and enforce a carrier standard across the life of a load, with continuous verification rather than one time onboarding. FreightScout wins freight and then runs it. Most brokerages that use both are using them for different jobs, and swapping one for the other is not the decision in front of you.
Do I have to replace Highway to use FreightScout?
No. FreightScout reads your existing systems rather than replacing them, and it runs in production today on 148,220 real loads inside brokerages that kept the tools they already had.
What is the best Highway alternative for freight brokers?
FreightScout is the Highway alternative for brokerages that want the load run on the TMS they keep, while carrier identity stays its own job. FreightScout publishes this page.