Quote LTL

Switch Quick Quote to LTL, pick the customer, check the freight and accessorials Kit filled in, and click Get LTL Quote. Drumkit rates the shipment in your TMS and shows a card for every carrier that can take it. LTL quoting works with Tai, 3G, Turvo and McLeod Enterprise, if your team has it turned on.

Here's the kind of email we mean

1. Switch to LTL and pick the customer

Open the email and Drumkit. If Kit read it as LTL, the form is already on LTL; if not, click LTL at the top of Quick Quote. Under Quote Information, pick the Customer. On Tai and the McLeod API integration, also pick the Customer Staff contact. Your TMS needs both before it can rate.

2. Check stops and freight

• Stops: full street addresses rate best. On Tai, pickup needs Ready and Close times, and you can pick a saved location from the customer's Address book.
• Items: description, freight class, NMFC (optional), length, width, height, handling unit type, pieces and total weight. Fix anything Kit read wrong.
• Stackable and Side-loading: set them if they apply.

Drumkit totals Linear Feet, Total Cubic Feet and Total Weight as you go. If the shipment passes 700 cubic feet, 19,999 lbs or 12 linear feet, you'll see Volume Rate May Apply: it may need a volume or truckload quote instead.

3. Add accessorials

Pick accessorials such as liftgate, residential or inside delivery from your TMS's list. If your team uses Shiplify with Tai, Drumkit checks each address and adds or suggests location charges for you. See Shiplify (Tai) below.

4. Get rates

Click Get LTL Quote. Each carrier that can rate the shipment gets a card with its price and transit, plus badges such as Guaranteed or Volume and the carrier's Insurance coverage. Click Show N More for the rest. Carriers that couldn't rate show under Rating Errors or Not Serviced.

When your TMS saves the quote, you'll see Quote Saved in Tai (or your TMS) with Open Quote to jump to it. On 3G, Drumkit can also assign the lowest-rate carrier: Quote Saved in 3G and Carrier Assigned.

The prices come through your TMS, using the customer's rating profile set up there (for example in Tai or 3G), so any markup in that profile is already included.

5. Reply

Click the rate (or rates) you want to offer. Draft Response writes the reply; edit it, then click Send Email or pick Draft Email from its menu. See Send or draft your reply.

What's different on each TMS

TMS	What to know
Tai	Needs Customer and Customer Staff. Pickup Ready/Close times are required. Customer address book, Declared Value, and Shiplify if your team has it. The quote is saved in Tai.
McLeod Enterprise	Same form as Tai: Customer and Customer Staff are required.
3G	Needs Customer. Uses your 3G profiles and constraints, with hazmat fields. The quote is saved in 3G and the lowest-rate carrier can be assigned.
Turvo	Needs Customer. Set mode, service type and payment terms. Rate cards show the Pricing type, so you can tell a contract rate from a dynamic one.

Shiplify (Tai)

If your team has Shiplify connected with Tai, Drumkit checks each pickup and dropoff address for location charges like residential or limited access before you quote.

• You don't have to do anything: when you click Get LTL Quote, the button reads Checking Shiplify… and then Getting LTL quotes….
• To see results first, click Check Shiplify on a stop. It needs a full street address.
• Charges Shiplify is most sure about, and that exist in your Tai accessorial list, are added for you. Others show under Shiplify recommendations with an Add button.
• Above your rates, a note says whether the request went with Shiplify recommendations, after Shiplify verification, or without a Shiplify lookup.

FAQs

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Related

• Quote several LTL shipments at once

• Send or draft your reply

• Quote a single lane