Brokers who don’t exercise “due diligence” by thoroughly investigating carriers before hiring them could be at legal risk. Tools like our CarrierWatch monitoring system do that work for you, without adding extra administrative staff. In our opinion—shared by many others—carrier monitoring is critical to the long-term success of the broker industry.

So when brokers told us that the best way to get the industry to use carrier monitoring tools was to make them free, we said, “Good idea.”

Welcome to 3sixty Freight Match, with free carrier monitoring, improved searching and a whole lot more.

Free carrier monitoring

Here’s the big news: We think carrier monitoring is so important that we’ve built it into 3sixty Freight Match. We took select tools from our premium carrier monitoring product, CarrierWatch, and added them to the new 3sixty Freight Match.

Now you not only get TransCore’s industry-leading load board to help you find great carriers, you also have the ability to directly monitor them from the load board (below). 

When you find a good carrier prospect, you can also check the following for FREE, without ever leaving 3sixty Freight Match:

• Authority
• Safety rating
• DOT-reported insurance coverage

You’ll also be able to create “watchlists” for your preferred carriers, to monitor their continued compliance. Place a carrier on your watchlist, and any change in their status will be reported to you via e-mail.

Best of all, it’s FREE with your 3sixty Freight Match subscription. Compare that with what you’d pay for competing load boards and carrier monitoring tools. Not only would you need to buy and manage two separate packages (often with a higher monthly charge), but you’ll waste precious time in switching from one program to another when choosing a carrier.

With 3sixty Freight Match there’s no extra charge and nothing to add; just log into your 3sixty Freight Match account and you’ll be automatically upgraded.

Want to increase your ability to monitor and screen carriers effectively? Upgrade to our Premium line of CarrierWatch monitoring tools, and you can drill down into specific insurance certificate details including types of insurance and coverage limits.

CarrierWatch Premium customers use our service to: 

• Validate and monitor carrier authority, safety, and DOT/insurance company-reported insurance
• Upload motor carrier numbers to create watch lists using our FTP service
• Detailed coverage and insurance certificate information and certificate images
• Receive notices of changes in carrier authority, safety, and DOT/insurance company-reported insurance
• Hot load service – when you need to qualify a carrier now

CarrierWatch Premium customers are doing everything they can to streamline operation and reduce – or even eliminate – carrier compliance issues.

Better search results

3sixty Freight Match has always had a great advanced search tool, SmartSearch, which can greatly increase your search results. Our newest release turns SmartSearch into the default tool for searching for great carriers.

SmartSearch examines your search request and automatically expands it until you find the right match. The tool lets you first display results that exactly match your request…but then provide additional lists of near-matches, based on your choice of "time posted" or "distance from origin."

SmartSearch is a great way to see the largest list of available trucks from a single search. It lets you control exactly how much—or how little—you want to see.

1Click2Call gets better than ever

We introduced 1click2call in our previous release, and were pleasantly surprised at the response. Since then, we’ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers.

1click2call lets you search for a carrier for your load, see if he’s online in the program, and call him FREE directly through your PC. Just double-click on the carrier’s name, and you’re connected instantly.

Customers tell us that 1click2call, powered by Skype, not only cuts the time it takes to reach your contact, but that—since it’s a FREE PC to PC call—it saves money on phone charges. Calls you make to another 1click2call or Skype user are absolutely free, so the more 1click2call users, the more you’ll save! (For a small annual fee, Skype can upgrade your free service to let you call non-Skype phones as well.)

Many of you already had Skype voice-over-IP service and started using 1click2call as soon as we launched the service. And we’re thrilled to see so many of you become Skype subscribers just to take advantage of 1click2call’s free calling service.

If you haven’t used 1click2call, this is a good time to start. Just sign up for a free Skype phone account, then log into your 3sixty Freight Match load board. That’s all there is to it.