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Pricing, quoting and booking

Instant prices

freightright_get_instant_rates asks carriers live for one lane and one cargo: ocean FCL or LCL, air, or LTL trucking within and between the US and Canada.

  • Every call uses one unit of your monthly allowance — a cache hit too. Ask for a price when you want a price.
  • An answer can take up to a minute. If your assistant cannot wait that long, it gets a pricing_id and collects the offers a moment later with freightright_get_rate_offers — the same price check, not a second one.
  • Offers come cheapest first, each with its carrier, total, estimated transit, what it does not include, and how long it stays valid.
  • complete: false means a pricing source did not answer in time: more offers may exist. No offers with complete: true means there is no instant price for that lane — a quote request is the way.

An offer is a price, not a booking. Nothing is reserved until a booking is confirmed and Freight Right accepts it.

Quote requests

freightright_submit_rate_request asks our pricing team. Use it for full truckload, Mexico trucking, unusual cargo, or when you simply want a person to look at it. freightright_preview_rate_request shows you exactly what would be sent without sending anything.

You get a confirmation e-mail, and the request appears in Shipment Manager. Our team quotes it; the assistant can read the offer with freightright_get_rate_request.

The same request twice within 30 days returns the first one — deliberately, so a retry can never create a duplicate. Change the note to ask for something different.

Bookings

See What a write guarantees. In short: the assistant prepares, you confirm, Freight Right reviews.

Billing

Every price, quote request and booking is made for a billing account. If your Freight Right account is linked to organizations, the assistant passes one of their ids (it can list them for you); if you are billed by company name, it passes that. freightright_get_account shows which applies to you, along with your limits and what you have used this month.