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Carrier portal · Built for trucking companies

Win more loads. Get paid faster. Stop taking check-calls.

Keelway for Carriers is the AI-powered carrier portal for trucking companies that haul freight for brokers. Onboarding, compliance, driver dispatch, tracking updates, and settlement — one login for every broker in your book. Free for carriers. Built so you can cover more loads without adding a dispatcher.

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3-7 days
faster carrier days-to-pay
Keelway carrier cohort, 2026
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downloads required for drivers
Browser-first driver UI
30 min
avg. time from sign-up to first load
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Why the carrier side of freight is stuck in email

Trucking companies don't have a technology problem — they have a fragmentation problem. A 20-truck carrier might book loads with 80 different freight brokers in a quarter. Every one of those brokers uses a different TMS, a different carrier-packet process, a different ETA-check cadence, and a different accounts-payable inbox. The carrier dispatcher ends up reconciling four load boards, a dozen broker portals, a stack of signed rate confirmations, and forty unanswered phone calls per day.

Keelway collapses that sprawl. Every broker you haul for pushes loads, rate cons, and payment status into a single portal that you already log in to — whether they're on Tai, McLeod, Aljex, Revenova, Turvo, Rose Rocket, or running everything out of Gmail. Your dispatchers see one list. Your drivers get one text. Your AP team gets one status feed.

Everything a modern trucking company needs in one portal

Onboard

One carrier packet, every broker

Upload your MC authority, W-9, COI, and drug-testing consortium once. Keelway syndicates the current version to every broker you work with and refreshes their Highway, MyCarrierPortal, RMIS, and Carrier411 records automatically. No more re-faxing your packet to a new broker at midnight.
Book

Load tendering from 80+ brokers

See live broker-posted loads alongside DAT and Truckstop listings, ranked by your trucks' current positions and your preferred lanes. Accept a load with one click. Rate confirmation generates automatically in your broker's format and signs back to the broker's TMS.
Dispatch

Driver check-ins by SMS

Drivers get a text link the moment a load is assigned. One tap confirms arrival at shipper, departure, and consignee arrival. No app-store install. For carriers on Motive, Samsara, Geotab, ELD Rider, or Omnitracs, we ingest ELD telematics directly so check-ins happen without the driver lifting a finger.
Track

AI-generated ETA updates for brokers

Every 30 minutes Keelway's AI writes the same status-update email your dispatcher would have sent manually — truck position, current ETA, driver hours remaining, any appointment risk. It pushes to the broker's inbox and their tracking portal. Dispatcher sleeps. Broker stays informed.
Get paid

POD upload to factoring in one step

Snap the BOL and signed POD in the driver web app. Keelway routes the documents to the broker's AP team and your factoring company (RTS, Apex, Triumph, OTR) in parallel. Typical carriers see 3–7 days trimmed off days-to-pay.
Score

Carrier scorecard you can actually use

See exactly how each broker in your book rates you — on-time pickup, on-time delivery, check-in cadence, tracking compliance, and the lanes they want to re-book you on. Use it to negotiate. Most scorecards live locked inside the broker's TMS; Keelway puts yours in your hands.

Built for every kind of trucking company

Keelway works for small fleets, owner-operators with their own authority, mid-market asset carriers, and carrier-broker hybrids. Specifically:

  • Owner-operators and 1–5 truck fleets: Keelway is often your first carrier portal. Replaces the shared Gmail inbox, the Excel sheet of loads, and the phone-tag with brokers. Free, no seat minimum.
  • 10–50 truck fleets: Sits next to whatever dispatcher app or spreadsheet you've grown into. Plugs into your ELD for automatic tracking. Consolidates the dozen broker portals your dispatchers juggle.
  • 50–500 truck asset carriers: Plugs into your TMS (McLeod LoadMaster, TMW, Prophesy, Profit Tools, Aljex) via EDI or API. Keelway handles the broker-facing surface; your TMS keeps owning dispatch, driver pay, and maintenance.
  • Carrier-broker hybrids: Run Keelway on both sides. Same login, same data model, dual permission scopes. Your asset fleet and your brokerage book stay cleanly separated but share a carrier-identity layer.

Integrations — works with the tools you already run

Keelway connects to the systems carriers already pay for:

  • ELDs & telematics: Motive (KeepTruckin), Samsara, Geotab, ELD Rider, Omnitracs, Verizon Connect, EROAD, Surfsight, Azuga, Zonar, FleetComplete. Telematics feeds become broker-facing tracking events automatically.
  • Load boards: DAT, Truckstop, 123Loadboard. Your bidding history and rate benchmarks come with you.
  • Factoring & back-office: RTS Financial, Apex Capital, Triumph Business Capital, OTR Solutions, TBS Factoring, QuickBooks. Upload POD once, factoring funds the invoice — done.
  • Identity & compliance: FMCSA QCMobile, Highway, MyCarrierPortal, RMIS, Carrier411, DAT OnBoard, Descartes MyCarrier. Your packet stays current across every broker.
  • TMS & dispatch: McLeod LoadMaster, TMW Suite, Prophesy, Profit Tools, Aljex, Tai TMS, Rose Rocket, Axon Software.

Carrier portal vs. generic load board — the honest difference

Load boards (DAT, Truckstop) sell access to posted loads. They are volume machines. A carrier portal like Keelway sits a layer above — it handles everything after you find the load: the booking, the paperwork, the check-in calls, the ETA updates, the POD, the payment. You still use DAT and Truckstop to find volume. You use Keelway to turn that volume into covered loads without drowning your back office.

Security, compliance, and data ownership

Keelway is SOC 2 Type II bound, encrypts data in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256), and never sells carrier data to brokers or third parties. You own your lane history, your scorecard, and your document vault. If you leave Keelway, you export everything in one click — CSV, JSON, or PDF. We publish our full data-handling posture on the privacy page.

Frequently asked questions

What is Keelway for Carriers?+

Keelway for Carriers is a modern carrier portal built for asset-based trucking companies, small fleets, and owner-operators that book loads with freight brokers. It replaces the spreadsheets, emailed rate confirmations, and phone-tag that normally sit between a carrier and the broker — with a single dashboard for load offers, document exchange, driver check-calls, ETA updates, and settlement.

How is a carrier portal different from a TMS?+

A carrier TMS (trucking management system) manages the carrier's whole business — dispatch, driver pay, IFTA, maintenance, customer invoicing. A carrier portal is the bridge between that carrier and the brokers it hauls for. Keelway is the portal layer: we plug into your existing TMS (or your Gmail inbox if you don't have one yet) and make the broker-facing workflow frictionless. We don't try to replace your TMS.

Do I need to install anything?+

No. Keelway runs in the browser for dispatchers and as a lightweight mobile web app for drivers — no app-store download, no device enrollment, no ELD swap-out. Most carriers are live in under 30 minutes from sign-up to first load offer.

Which freight brokers can I see loads from?+

Every broker using Keelway on the broker side pushes their load offers directly into your portal. You also continue to receive DAT / Truckstop / email load offers — Keelway reads those and stacks them alongside the Keelway-native loads so you see one unified list of opportunities, ranked by rate-per-mile and fit with your trucks.

How does Keelway help me get paid faster?+

Rate confirmations, BOLs, and proofs of delivery upload once into the portal and route automatically to the broker's accounts-payable and your factoring company (we integrate with RTS, Apex, Triumph, and OTR). That collapses the 5-step email chase to one upload. Carriers on Keelway see 3–7 days off their average days-to-pay.

Do drivers have to use an app?+

Drivers get a text-message link after they're dispatched. One tap opens a lightweight web page with the stop list, appointment window, and a button to confirm arrival. No download required. For carriers that prefer a true native app, we expose the same updates to your existing ELD (Motive, Samsara, Geotab, ELD Rider, Omnitracs).

How is MC / DOT compliance handled?+

Keelway verifies your operating authority, insurance on file, and safety rating against FMCSA on every broker load. We also support Highway, MyCarrierPortal, RMIS, and Carrier411 for brokers that require those identity layers — you upload your packet once and Keelway shares the current version across every broker you work with.

What does Keelway cost for carriers?+

Free for carriers. Keelway monetizes on the broker side. There is no per-load fee, no percentage of revenue, no factoring lock-in. We publish this on the contact page and in the carrier sign-up flow.

Free for carriers · No app install · Live in 30 minutes

One portal for every broker you haul for.

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