FreightScout vs McLeod
McLeod and FreightScout are different kinds of tool, so a straight head to head would be misleading. McLeod describes its product as the most complete transportation management system, built for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management. 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. If McLeod is your TMS, keep it. It is the system of record at a large share of the brokerages in this country and replacing it is a project nobody enjoys. FreightScout sits alongside it, reads it, and does the parts a TMS was never built to do, which is winning the freight and coaching the people who sell it.
What McLeod says it does
McLeod describes its product as the most complete transportation management system, built for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management. 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 McLeod is your TMS, keep it. It is the system of record at a large share of the brokerages in this country and replacing it is a project nobody enjoys. FreightScout sits alongside it, reads it, and does the parts a TMS was never built to do, which is winning the freight and coaching the people who sell it.
McLeod in their own words
Every statement below is a direct quotation from McLeod's own website, with the date it was captured. We describe our product; they describe theirs.
The Most Complete Transportation Management System
Redefining transportation technology with the industry's most complete, re-engineered user experience for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management.
Questions people actually ask
Is FreightScout an alternative to McLeod?
Not really, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. McLeod describes its product as the most complete transportation management system, built for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management. 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 McLeod 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.