FreightScout vs Highway
Highway and FreightScout are different kinds of tool, so a straight head to head would be misleading. 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 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. 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.
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. 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
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.
Highway in their own words
Every statement below is a direct quotation from Highway's own website, with the date it was captured. We describe our product; they describe theirs.
Highway is the leading provider of Carrier Identity® solutions, helping freight brokers verify identity, authorize participation, and enforce their carrier standard throughout the lifecycle of every load.
Carrier Identity replaces one-time onboarding with continuous verification throughout every freight transaction.
Questions people actually ask
Is FreightScout an alternative to 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 143,156 real loads inside brokerages that kept the tools they already had.