Carrier411 vs TriviumTMS

Carrier411 helps brokers, shippers, factoring companies, and other qualified logistics professionals research, qualify, and monitor motor carriers. It combines FMCSA data with current and historical information about carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders. Carrier Locator searches more than 1,479,000 companies across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Monitoring covers changes to insurance, operating authority, safety ratings, and BASIC scores, with email and online alerts. Fraud alert searches check signals such as similar names, related entities, shared addresses, and multiple operating authorities. Members can view and submit FreightGuard performance reports, which represent member opinions. Due diligence certificates and access logs document inspections. Web access and an API are available, with CSV downloads and a Web Services Interface. Plans include Carrier411 at $99 a month, plus optional interfaces and downloads. A 30-day trial requires a credit card and converts unless canceled.

TriviumTMS is a paid transport-management platform for auto-transport and freight brokerages. It combines lead handling, quoting, orders, dispatch, tracking and billing. Lead management supports weighted round-robin assignment, source attribution and automated follow-up sequences. Brokers can decode VINs and view Super Dispatch and TruckStop prices together. Carrier tools include FMCSA verification, daily insurance monitoring and MCS-150 change detection. The system creates Rate Confirmations, Bills of Lading and Invoices, with electronic signatures and order archiving. Live GPS tracking uses a customer’s CarrierView account and can expose a public tracking page. Billing includes Stripe and Square charging, invoice generation, payment tracking, aging reports and revenue analytics. Integrations include Central Dispatch, Super Dispatch, TruckStop, Stripe, Square, QuickBooks, RingCentral and CarrierView, using customers’ own accounts. Plans are month-to-month, per brokerage, starting at $99 a month.