Approach more carriers at tender, bring their surcharges and energy indexation into the comparison, and settle each shipment in seconds. Your Excel rate sheets exactly as they arrive, with no retyping.
Free, no card required. 3 rate sheets and 20 priced shipments per month.
Shipment comparison
Illustrative example420 kg · pallet · Lyon → Lille
Tail lift at delivery
Carrier A
Best price, all in
€187.40
Carrier B
€201.10
+ 7 %
Carrier C
€214.80
+ 15 %
Carrier D
€229.00
+ 22 %
12 rate sheets queried
Because beyond that, tracking them in spreadsheets stops working. The ceiling is not commercial, it is practical: nobody can compare fifteen rate sheets in fifteen formats on every shipment. So you lose twice — at tender, for want of competition, and day to day, for want of arbitration on each order.
Every carrier has its own format: different weight brackets, in-house zones, départements grouped another way. The same consignment does not read the same way from one sheet to the next. Your comparison workbook is wrong the moment one rate changes.
The quoted price is never the price paid. Tail lift, booked delivery slots, dangerous goods, sheeting, waiting time, tolls: these lines follow rules specific to each carrier, and almost never make it into the comparison.
The formula is signed at the start of the contract, then nobody recalculates it. The gap between what was agreed and what is invoiced settles in month after month, with nothing to flag it.
So the saving won at tender evaporates during the year, while the order-management team spends its days hunting for a rate across fifteen files and calling sales reps to have it confirmed.
You upload the file exactly as the carrier sent it. A conversational agent reads it, shows you what it understood and asks you to confirm. Seconds, and nothing retyped.
Rate sheets received as PDFs or scans are not processed yet.
The file as it arrives
transport_rates_2026.xls
| DPT | TOWN | Carrier A 28 tCarrier B 28 t | Carrier C | Carrier D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | VALENCE | 142.00 | — | 164.42 |
| 84 | AVIGNON | 167.00 | 186.00 | 178.50 |
| 13 | MARSEILLE | — | 410.00 | — |
| 30 | BAGNOLS | 162.00 | 176.00 | 176.09 |
| Terms | ||||
| Pallet return / pallet | €0.18 | |||
| Fuel indexation — base | Jan 2023 | |||
Column 3: two carriers on the same rate. Shall I split them?
YesThe costs that almost never enter the comparison, and that make the difference between two apparently identical offers.
Applied as a percentage of the base price, following a formula and an index specific to each contract.
Charged whenever a delivery is made to an appointment. The amount and the trigger conditions vary widely between carriers.
At collection, at delivery, or both. Sometimes included up to a certain weight, often with a minimum charge.
A percentage uplift or a flat fee per consignment, depending on the class and the quantities carried.
Charged per pallet, at rates that vary twofold from one carrier to the next.
Delivery to a building site or a difficult access point, charged as a flat fee per call.
Charged per operation, with minimum-charge rules that differ from one carrier to the next.
Passed on as a percentage of the price or per kilometre, depending on the roads used.
Beyond a free allowance at loading or delivery, charged in hourly blocks.
For a given shipment, CarrierBridge applies each carrier's own rules and shows the complete price, not just the base rate.
You enter your contract formula and reference index once. CarrierBridge recalculates the expected surcharge for each period and compares it with what you were invoiced.
Energy share, reference index, base index, revision frequency. The formula stays yours: CarrierBridge neither imposes nor assumes one.
For each period the theoretical surcharge is recalculated from the matching index, then applied to the base price of your shipments.
The difference between the invoiced rate and the expected rate is shown in points and converted into euros, carrier by carrier and month by month.
Indexation gap detected
Contract formula
CarrierBridge flags a calculation gap. It does not read your contract and is no substitute for reading it or for legal advice. A flagged gap is a point to raise with your carrier, not a conclusion.
An invoice to check right now? The indexation calculator is open to everyone, no sign-up.
Weight, destination, services required. The full ranking appears in seconds, all charges included.
The base rate decides nothing
180 kg · Nantes → Strasbourg
| Total payable | Carrier A | Carrier B |
|---|---|---|
| Base rate | €142.00 | €151.00 |
| Energy surcharge 8.4% | €11.93 | €12.68 |
| Tail lift at delivery | €18.00 | €9.50 |
| Booked delivery slot | €15.50 | €0.00 |
| Total payable | €187.43 | €173.18 |
Le moins cher n’est pas toujours affectable. Un transporteur peut être saturé, non agréé pour la marchandise, ou en retard sur le volume que vous vous êtes engagé à lui confier. CarrierBridge intègre ces contraintes au calcul et vous propose une affectation applicable — que vous validez.
Qui peut exécuter cet ordre.
Ce qu’il peut absorber.
Ce que vous lui avez promis.
L’affectation n’est pas automatique. Pour chaque ordre, CarrierBridge classe les transporteurs éligibles, affiche le coût réel de chacun et indique le motif de sa proposition : moins-disant, rattrapage d’engagement, seul candidat éligible. Vous validez, ou vous choisissez autrement en indiquant pourquoi.
Ce motif n’est pas perdu. Quand le même écart revient sur le même périmètre, l’outil vous propose d’en faire une règle.
Traçabilité de chaque décision. Le transporteur retenu, son prix au moment du choix, les candidats écartés et le motif de leur exclusion sont conservés. Vous pouvez justifier une affectation six mois plus tard.
Pour chaque transporteur, l’écart entre le volume réalisé et le volume engagé est suivi en continu, avec la projection de fin de période. Vous savez en octobre que l’engagement annuel ne sera pas tenu, pas en décembre.
Respecter un engagement coûte parfois plus cher que prendre le moins-disant. CarrierBridge chiffre cet écart : coût réel de vos affectations contre coût théorique au mieux-disant, sur la période. Vous savez ce que vous payez pour tenir vos engagements — et donc si la remise obtenue en échange les justifie encore.
CarrierBridge applique les règles que vous saisissez et signale les écarts. Il ne se substitue pas à la lecture de vos contrats : un engagement de volume crée des obligations dont la portée s’apprécie au regard du contrat signé.
Day-to-day operations, from the internal request to the assignment, in one place.
Sites and departments file their need through a single form instead of by email. Nothing gets lost in an inbox.
Shipments going to the same area on the same day are grouped before arbitration, which often tips the calculation towards a different carrier.
The chosen carrier is named for each order, with a record of the decision and of the price at the time it was made.
When no rate sheet covers the need, the price negotiated for that job is captured and kept. Your one-off charters stop escaping the record.
Choisir le transporteur ne suffit pas : il faut encore lui passer l’ordre, savoir où en est l’expédition et récupérer la preuve de livraison. CarrierBridge va jusqu’au bout, de l’affectation à la clôture — sans que vos transporteurs aient à créer un compte.
Le transporteur est désigné, avec le prix retenu au moment du choix et la trace de la décision.
L’ordre part par e-mail, avec tous les éléments d’exécution : enlèvement, livraison, marchandise, prestations attendues, référence.
Le transporteur confirme, refuse, ou propose une modification. Chaque réponse est horodatée et conservée.
Les statuts remontent au fil de l’exécution : enlevé, en cours, livré, incident. Vous savez où en est chaque expédition sans relancer personne.
Preuve de livraison et documents attachés, expédition close, prix facturable comparé au prix retenu à l’affectation.
Vos transporteurs ne créent pas de compte et n’ont rien à installer. Chacun reçoit un lien personnel qui ouvre la liste des expéditions que vous lui avez confiées : il consulte, accepte, met à jour un statut et dépose ses documents depuis son navigateur, sur ordinateur comme sur téléphone.
Un transporteur ne voit que ses propres expéditions. Ni vos autres transporteurs, ni les prix que vous obtenez ailleurs.
Lettre de voiture, preuve de livraison signée, photos d’un colis endommagé, bon de réception, réserves écrites : les documents sont attachés à l’expédition concernée, déposés par le transporteur ou par vos équipes.
Ils restent rattachés au shipment, avec l’ordre, le transporteur retenu, le prix et l’historique des statuts. Retrouver un dossier complet dix-huit mois plus tard prend quelques secondes, sans chercher dans une messagerie.
Le prix retenu à l’affectation est conservé. À réception de la facture, CarrierBridge le compare à ce qui vous est facturé : tarif de base, prestations annexes réellement dues, surcharge énergie de la période. Les écarts sont listés, chiffrés, et rattachés à l’expédition concernée.
C’est la boucle qui manque à la plupart des organisations : on négocie, on affecte, puis plus personne ne vérifie que ce qui est payé correspond à ce qui a été décidé.
CarrierBridge signale des écarts entre le prix décidé et le prix facturé. Il ne se substitue ni à votre contrôle comptable, ni à la validation de vos factures.
One register for your carriers and the documents you ask them for.
Contacts, geographic coverage, vehicle types, rate sheets in force and their version history.
Social security compliance certificate, transport licence, goods-in-transit insurance, bank details. Each document carries its expiry date.
Documents approaching expiry are flagged before the date, not once they have lapsed.
CarrierBridge centralises the documents you collect and alerts you to their expiry dates. It does not replace your own verification obligations and does not certify that a document is valid.
Describe what you need in plain language: a lane, a vehicle type, a particular constraint. The module suggests carriers that may fit, for you to approach at your next tender.
This module is in beta. It is not charged separately and is not needed to use CarrierBridge: most of the value comes from the rate sheets you already have.
Public prices, no negotiation required. You start free and move up when your volumes justify it.
To check on your own rate sheets that the tool delivers.
Free
Get startedFor a single site leaving spreadsheets behind and taking back control of its surcharges.
€79/ month
Get startedFor shippers who want to arbitrate every shipment and keep track of their carriers.
€199/ month
Get startedMulti-site and large accounts
Business · €449/ month
Requests, aggregation, constrained assignment, spot rates, API.
Non, et ce n’est pas une nuance de vocabulaire. Le TMS chargeur existe depuis vingt ans et reste peu déployé, non parce qu’il fonctionne mal, mais parce que le raccorder coûte plus cher que ce qu’il rapporte. Un module de prise de rendez-vous, c’est six mois de DSI et un budget d’intégration — puis tout est à refaire pour l’outil suivant.
CarrierBridge est construit à l’envers : vous déposez vos grilles, vous obtenez un résultat le jour même, et vous payez un abonnement, pas un projet.
La vie d’une expédition, de la décision à la clôture.
Tout ce qui se situe au-dessus de l’expédition, ou après elle.
Une expédition chez CarrierBridge, c’est un enlèvement et un point de livraison. Dès qu’il faut en regrouper plusieurs, construire une tournée ou arbitrer un plan de transport, ce n’est plus notre travail — et nous préférons le dire que le faire à moitié.
No. Signing up asks for no configuration and leads to a usable result in under ten minutes. Onboarding exists for teams that want to move faster, or go further.
For teams that want someone who knows both the transport trade and the tool.
€490
Two 90-minute video sessions.
Loading your rate sheets, setting up your indexation formulas, hands-on start.
Contact us€3,750
Five days of support spread over 12 months.
Full carrier register set-up, advanced configuration, tender scoping, quarterly reviews.
Unused days are not carried beyond 12 months.
Contact usThe objections that come up most often, answered without hedging.
More admin, yes — if it stays manual. That is exactly what the tool absorbs: once the rate sheets are imported, checking three carriers or fifteen takes the same single action. On volume, the effect is real but usually overstated: a discount granted once a year to an incumbent holds up poorly against permanent competition, shipment by shipment. And nothing forces you to fragment everything: many shippers keep two main partners on their regular flows and open the rest to arbitration.
Excel, today: .xls and .xlsx. Rate sheets received as PDFs or scans are not processed yet — we would rather say so than let you find out. The Excel file does not have to be tidy, though. Merged cells, several tables on one sheet, a column covering two carriers, prices carrying a comment, one tab per departure site, ancillary terms slipped in under the prices: that is what we see every day, and that is what the loading agent is built to read. It shows you on screen what it has understood and asks you to decide wherever two readings are possible. The structure itself is kept as it is: town-by-carrier matrix, scale by pallet count, flat rate per trip, weight brackets by département. We impose no house format.
You enter your contract formula: energy share, reference index, base index, revision frequency. The formula stays yours — CarrierBridge imposes none. The tool then recalculates the expected surcharge for each period from published indices and compares it with the rate applied on your invoices. It flags calculation gaps; it does not read your contract and is no substitute for contractual analysis. A flagged gap is a point to raise with your carrier, not a conclusion.
No, and CarrierBridge does not replace one: they answer different questions. A TMS executes — it plans, produces documents, tracks shipments. CarrierBridge arbitrates — it decides who gets the order and at what price, then checks what is invoiced. If you have no TMS, CarrierBridge works on its own. If you have one, the two sit side by side, and a connector can pull your transport orders in automatically.
Your rate sheets, volumes and negotiated prices are yours. They are not shared with other clients, not passed to carriers, and not aggregated into a market index. Data is hosted in Europe, encrypted in transit and at rest, and processed in line with the GDPR. Processing purposes, retention periods and your rights are set out in our privacy policy.
Signing up asks for two fields and no configuration. Expect under ten minutes between creating the account and your first comparison on your own rate sheets: you upload one or two files, enter a typical shipment, and get the ranking. Loading a full register of ten to fifteen carriers then happens as you go, sheet by sheet. Kick-off onboarding lets you move it all across in one go.
Yes, in the Pro and Business plans, at no extra charge. It is in beta: it suggests carriers to approach, it does not qualify them for you and does not replace your tender. CarrierBridge works perfectly well without it — most of the value comes from the rate sheets you already have.
No. CarrierBridge is for shippers only: manufacturers, distributors and traders. The tool exists to compare transport offers, not to issue them. Carriers have no access to the platform and so see neither your rate sheets nor those of their competitors.
Shippers with an annual transport spend between €100,000 and €3 million: too small to justify a TMS or a dedicated transport buyer, too large to keep running on spreadsheets. In these companies transport is often handled part-time by an order-management or logistics lead who is not a procurement specialist. The tool is built for exactly that: no configuration expected, a usable result in the first session.
Upload two or three files, enter a typical shipment, compare. Ten minutes will tell you whether the tool is worth anything to you — no card, no sales call.
Compare my rate sheets freeFree, no card required. 3 rate sheets and 20 priced shipments per month.
Ten minutes, three actions
Upload your rate sheets
Excel — .xls and .xlsx, exactly as you received them.
Enter a shipment
Weight, destination, services required.
Compare
The full ranking, all charges included.