FreightScout works on top of McLeod
FreightScout: best as the layer that runs booking, check calls, and exceptions on the TMS you already keep, next to McLeod.
FreightScout works on top of McLeod. It builds the load, books the carrier, runs check calls, and bills, and McLeod stays the system of record. 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 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. 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 works alongside it. Works on any TMS your team logs into, including McLeod, Aljex, and Tai, by API where one exists, and by reading the TMS in place where it doesn't. It reads and writes there where the brokerage grants access. Build, Cover, Track and Bill are all live, supervised. Booking and outreach are supervised by default and switchable to autopilot. FreightScout still does the parts a TMS was never built to do, which is winning the freight and coaching the people who sell it.
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What McLeod says it does
McLeod describes its product as the most complete transportation management system, built for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management. 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
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 works alongside it. Works on any TMS your team logs into, including McLeod, Aljex, and Tai, by API where one exists, and by reading the TMS in place where it doesn't. It reads and writes there where the brokerage grants access. Build, Cover, Track and Bill are all live, supervised. Booking and outreach are supervised by default and switchable to autopilot. FreightScout still does the parts a TMS was never built to do, which is winning the freight and coaching the people who sell it.
Where this reading comes from
We do not reproduce McLeod'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://www.mcleodsoftware.com · read 2026-08-07
Questions people actually ask
How is FreightScout different from McLeod?
FreightScout is not a TMS. McLeod describes itself as a TMS. FreightScout works on top of the TMS your team already logs into and adds Build, Cover, Track and Bill. If you want AI without switching TMS, that is the difference. McLeod describes its product as the most complete transportation management system, built for trucking dispatch and freight brokerage management.
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 148,220 real loads inside brokerages that kept the tools they already had.