DrayageRate
About DrayageRate

The Rate Engine Behind
North American Drayage.

Built by freight operators who were tired of calling around for prices. Every quote is fully itemised, live-priced, and locked for 24 hours.

Our mission

Drayage pricing was a black box. We opened it.

For decades, drayage pricing required calling three brokers and hoping you got the right number. Rates varied wildly between carriers, fuel surcharges were opaque, and chassis fees appeared as surprises at billing.

We built DrayageRate to fix that. A single API call returns the same fully-itemised, all-in price that a carrier would actually charge. Locked for 24 hours. Exportable to PDF, JSON, or HTML.

$2.4B+
Rates Processed
50+
Ports Covered
2,800+
Carrier Partners
30s
Avg Quote Time
What we stand for

Four principles. Every feature.

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Speed

A drayage quote should take 30 seconds, not 30 phone calls. Every product decision we make is tested against that benchmark.

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Transparency

No black-box pricing. Every line item in a DrayageRate quote — fuel, chassis, port fee — is visible, explained, and auditable.

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Accuracy

Our rate engine updates 38 live variables on every quote — diesel index, chassis pool fees, port surcharges. Stale data is our enemy.

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Coverage

50+ U.S. and Canadian container ports. 1,200+ inland delivery cities. 2,800+ carrier partners. We did not cut corners on the network.

The rate engine

How every quote is priced.

DrayageRate does not make up numbers. Every quote is the sum of six precisely-calculated cost components, each pulling from a live data source updated at least daily.

No averages. No rule-of-thumb per-mile rates. Each quote reflects the actual economics of a specific container move on the day you run it.

01
Live Diesel Index
DOE weekly national average, updated every Tuesday at market open.
02
Carrier CPM
Carrier-declared cost-per-mile, adjusted for axle class and haul length.
03
Chassis Pool Fees
Per-day chassis rental from SACP, ULGCP, DCLI, Flexi-Van, and regional pools.
04
Port Terminal Charges
Gate fees, terminal handling, exam surcharges from every major terminal operator.
05
Fuel Surcharge (FSC)
EIA-table FSC applied to carrier declared MPG, updated with each diesel index.
06
Accessorials
Overweight permits, hazmat, reefer plug, chassis split, and lumper all modeled at quote time.
The team

Small team. Big network.

18 people covering engineering, operations, and carrier success — every one obsessed with making drayage easier.

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Engineering

9 engineers

Full-stack, data, and infrastructure. They built the rate engine, quote API, and the real-time repricing pipeline.

D

Data & Operations

5 specialists

Ex-drayage operators who spent years running containers — they make sure the data matches the real world.

C

Carrier Success

4 managers

Onboarding, verifying, and supporting every carrier on the platform. They own the network quality.

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Free to start. No credit card. Every port covered from day one.

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