Truckload freight broker for Midwest manufacturers

For shippers with volume, not one-off moves

If your team tenders loads every day, the problem is rarely finding a single truck. It is the email chase: tenders with no answer, check calls, missing PODs and invoices that do not match. Throughline takes your tenders, quote requests and lane spreadsheets by email and turns them into priced quotes and loads, with a clear accept or decline on every tender.

That means your routing guide gets a backstop that behaves the same way on load one hundred as on load one.

Lanes we run across the Great Lakes

We quote any origin and destination in the continental US. Midwest shippers most often use us for regional and long-haul lanes out of the I-94, I-80/90, I-75 and I-70 corridors — Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Chicago, Milwaukee and the Fox Valley — into the Southeast, Texas, the Northeast and back.

What stays the same on every load

Before any rate con goes out, we check active FMCSA authority and carrier identity, require at least $100,000 cargo and $750,000 auto liability insurance, match the carrier's phone to its FMCSA record, and screen against a library of known fraud patterns. Anything that can't be confirmed goes to a person — it doesn't go through.

You hear when the carrier is booked, at pickup with the driver’s name and mobile, if it is running late, at delivery, and when the POD is on file, plus a brief of your freight every Monday. When the POD is verified, your invoice arrives as one PDF with the POD and BOL attached.