BidRight ROI · The sales sheet

This bid cycle is the one you have to get right.

Most carriers have not been able to move rates upward in over four years. That changes now, and the window to reset your rates does not stay open long. Here is what BidRight does to your bid season, in numbers you can defend.

Built in the open

How fast BidRight moves.

Every point is one of Nussbaum Technology's weekly “Here's what we shipped” emails to Early Access carriers. Click a point to see what landed that week. The line grows with every newsletter.

19weekly release notes since the series began
188features, improvements, and fixes called out
10shipped items per newsletter, on average
35weeks into 2026, and counting
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptodayFeb 10: Paid Alpha announcedApr 10: Paid Alpha opensMay 5: BidRight Alpha liveAug 28: Graduates to Early AccessPaid Alpha announcedPaid Alpha opensBidRight Alpha liveGraduates to Early AccessApr 3: FreightMath historical data on every lane (7 items)Apr 10: Bid workflow stage stepper (8 items)Apr 17: Smarter view settings in the lanes grid (7 items)Apr 24: Refresh FreightMath data on demand (11 items)May 8: Smarter mileage from less-than-perfect data (5 items)May 15: Suggested RPM (11 items)May 22: Manual column mapping in bid import (17 items)May 29: Carrier First regional fallback (16 items)Jun 5: Map DAT rates the same way as feedback (11 items)Jun 12: Start building your bid warehouse (9 items)Jun 26: Bid header refresh (11 items)Jul 2: Row selection for lane updates (6 items)Jul 10: Lane Search and Area Control (8 items)Jul 17: My Tasks and email notifications (8 items)Jul 31: AI Bid Insight (16 items)Aug 7: Customer logos (8 items)Aug 21: Customer contract details (12 items)Aug 28: Target OR and Min Rate in Auto Rate (7 items)Sep 4: Commitment tracking and AI contract reader (10 items)
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Week of September 4, 2026 · newsletter 19 of 19

Commitment tracking and AI contract reader

Publish accepted awards as commitments in one place. Upload a customer contract and BidRight reads it and suggests the contract details.

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  • Area Control shows load balances, FM OR by area, and average deadhead
  • Quick actions: accept all awards, copy bid volume to capacity
  • Auto Rate uses your prices from recent bids when a lane has no history
  • Quarterly and bi-weekly bid volume frequencies
  • Sort from the whole column header

The ROI

Six ways BidRight makes carriers money.

What carriers told us was costing them, and what changes once the bid lives in BidRight. Quotes are from carrier conversations in 2026, anonymized. Customer names in the examples are placeholders.

For carriers new to FreightMath

Bid seasons don't wait.

A lane priced wrong today is a lane you run at a loss for the next year.

A once-in-a-generation macro event for truckload

Get it wrong and you carry bad lanes for twelve months. Get it right and the whole year compounds in your favor.

The carriers who price the next bid season with discipline, instead of gut feel and a spreadsheet built in 2015, come out the other side with the right freight at the right margin. After four-plus years of not being able to move rates up, the margin between a disciplined bid and a hopeful one is the margin that defines your year.

FreightMath DNA

Built on the freight-costing discipline behind FreightMath, not a generic pricing tool retrofitted for trucking.

BidRight comes out of real carrier operations at Nussbaum. Its Modeled OR runs on cost per mile and cost per hour from your General Ledger, so the number you defend to a shipper is the number your P&L will actually show. Pair it with FreightMath and every price line is anchored to load-level Activity-Based Costing.

How FreightMath costs a network →

See it run

Watch a real bid go through BidRight.

A full tutorial plus short chapters on the moments that save the most time. Videos are being recorded now; the slots below fill in as they land.

Chapter 1Import a shipper file in thirty seconds

Watch a 9,000-lane RFP land with miles, history, and suggested interest attached.

Chapter 2Auto Rate with your strategy in the loop

Set the market temperature, write one line of strategy, and read the reasoning on every lane.

Chapter 3Area Control and Lane Search

Encode the network once, then find every lane you never won in one query.

Chapter 4Export back into the shipper's template

Rates, capacity, and transit days written into the original file. Only the lanes you priced.

What you get

Thirteen things a spreadsheet will never do.

Every one of these is live today for Early Access carriers.

01

Priced lane by lane, with your economics in view.

Every lane gets its own decision. BidRight puts your actual lane economics next to the market on every row: which freight is healthy, which is bleeding, where there's room to push. In a market that's finally moving, you price each lane on its merit instead of dragging one average across the whole bid. OR is the accurate thermometer based on your General Ledger data; the market and your judgment set the rate.

02

Price with one number.

Enter your RPM, what the lane is worth to you. BidRight translates it into what each shipper needs to pay given their fuel program, their stated miles, their payment terms. Your analysts think in one universal unit; the customer-by-customer math handles itself, always in your favor.

03

Auto Rate (AI), with your strategy in the loop.

Anchors on what you already charge, sanity-checks against the market, weights the Market Temperature you set, On Fire through Very Cold, and reads your one-line strategy note. Then it shows its reasoning and a confidence level on every lane. It proposes; you decide.

04

Your network, encoded.

Define your network once in Area Control: the lanes you run, the lanes you want, the pairs that keep trucks loaded market to market. Every uploaded bid gets checked against it instantly. 9,000 lanes tagged for interest in seconds; your team reviews the short list and makes the call.

05

Numbers you can see into.

Historical OR built from loads on the actual lane you're bidding. Modeled OR that moves in real time as you adjust the rate. Import any benchmark you already pay for and put it side by side. Carriers don't trust a number they can't unpack, so every number unpacks.

06

Thirty-second imports, three-second exports.

Shipper files read and mapped the way they actually arrive; 10,000 rows exported clean in seconds. The hour and a half of Excel gymnastics is gone.

07

A bid warehouse you can actually search.

Every past bid and your FreightMath history in one query. What did we quote this shipper last year, what won, what's our history in this corridor: a search, not an archaeology dig.

08

Commitments, landing during bid season.

Awards captured against what you committed, actual orders matched against the award, so you know which shippers honor their volume before next year's negotiation.

09

The whole team in one workflow.

Sales, Pricing, Operations, Review: assigned roles, one bid, one set of numbers. No forwarding spreadsheets.

10

The whole bid lifecycle, not just the pricing moment.

Rounds, due dates, close dates, feedback, customer target rates, awards. A bid lives in BidRight from the day the file arrives to the day the freight is awarded. Round 2 opens with everything you knew in Round 1 already on the lane, so you respond to feedback with discipline instead of memory.

11

Miles you can trust.

Shippers state their own mileage, and it's not always right. BidRight independently calculates practical miles on every lane and compensates when the customer's stated miles come up short, because losing ten miles on a lane means losing ten miles of revenue and fuel on every load, all year.

12

Market depth on every lane.

Two market rate integrations made easy and more coming, and add any custom rate source you bring, all on the row, all next to your own history. AI rating ingests them all on one lane or 10,000 so you can keep up with the trends.

13

A tool that improves every week.

BidRight shipped 40+ improvements in a single week this month, many of them straight from carrier feedback. Early Access means the distance between "this would help" and "it's live" is often measured in days. Your bids get easier while your competitors' spreadsheets stay spreadsheets.

For carriers, by carriers

Are you ready to Bid Right?

See BidRight run against a real bid. Our team will walk you through it live, well before your next season opens.