Requirements Desk

Request onlyfreighttruckloadltllogistics

Truckload, LTL and intermodal capacity for a lane

Record a freight requirement for a lane: origin, destination, mode, equipment, weight, pallets and the pickup window.

What it is for

A shipper with freight to move needs a carrier with the right equipment on the right lane inside a pickup window, at a rate the shipment can bear. Capacity tightens and loosens by lane and season, and firms that ship occasionally often cannot see who serves a lane at all. This records the lane and the load as the shipper states them, so that unserved lanes, equipment shortages and the rates shippers are prepared to pay can be studied.

Manufacturers and distributors with occasional or overflow loads, importers moving containers inland, purchasing staff at firms without a transportation team, and agents booking freight for them.

What happens to a request

The lane and the load are recorded exactly as given. No carrier is contacted, nothing is quoted, tendered or booked, and the requirement is not passed to anyone. Arranging motor carrier transportation for pay is brokerage, which requires federal registration, and none is held here. If you leave a contact, a reply may come with public information you can act on yourself; it is not promised. Contact details are stored apart from the requirement and deleted after 180 days.

What you get

A receipt with the request's identifier, the fields we could not match (carrier names, rates and transit times are never supplied here), and a plain statement that nothing will be quoted or booked and what may follow.

Scope and limits

Lanes within and between the United States, Canada and Mexico; other lanes are recorded as stated.

Regulated activity: Arranging transportation by motor carrier for compensation is brokerage under 49 U.S.C. 13102 and requires registration with FMCSA under 49 U.S.C. 13904. No such registration is held here. Not done here: introducing a carrier or forwarding the requirement to one.

What you can specify

Next step

POST the lane and load to /freight-capacity/requests (or /requests), use the form on this page, or call the submit_request MCP tool with proposition "freight-capacity".

Or send JSON to POST /freight-capacity/requests (schema: /freight-capacity/schema.json). Example:

{
  "action": "source",
  "need": "One refrigerated truckload of packed lettuce from Salinas, California to a distribution center in Chicago, held at 34F, picking up on 12 November.",
  "specifications": {
    "origin": "Salinas, CA 93901",
    "destination": "Chicago, IL 60608",
    "mode": "FTL",
    "equipment": "REEFER",
    "weight_lbs": 40000,
    "pallets": 22,
    "pickup_window": "2026-11-12 06:00 to 14:00 Pacific",
    "hazmat": false
  },
  "quantity": {
    "amount": 1,
    "unit": "load"
  },
  "timing": {
    "earliest": "2026-11-12",
    "latest": "2026-11-15"
  },
  "geography": {
    "from": "Salinas, CA",
    "to": "Chicago, IL",
    "country": "US"
  },
  "budget": {
    "amount": 7800,
    "currency": "USD",
    "per": "load"
  }
}

Sources for statements on this page