Job 01·Intake
Rate cons become loads. Automatically.
Every load starts as a rate confirmation in someone's inbox. Tandem reads it, builds the load, and flags the terms that decide whether it's profitable — before a dispatcher touches a field.
Job 01·Intake
Drop in a rate con.
Watch it become a load.
Upload any rate confirmation — an old one off your desk is perfect. Tandem reads it with the same engine that runs the product, then hands back a structured, ready-to-dispatch load. Nothing is stored; your document leaves the moment the read is done.
The document
Drag a rate con PDF here
or
PDF, up to 8MB
The load
Your structured load lands here — broker, rate, stops, equipment, and the flags Tandem would raise.
What you get
Five minutes of typing, gone.
No more re-keying PDFs
The rate con arrives as an email or an attachment. Tandem extracts the lane, stops, commodity, weight, rate, and reference numbers and writes them straight to the load.
Accessorial terms caught at intake
Detention windows, lumper fees, and driver-assist terms are pulled out and put in front of you — the line items that quietly decide whether the load makes money.
Validated against your customer
Tandem checks the rate con against the customer record and the lane history, so a wrong rate or a duplicate load surfaces before it's ever booked.
A load in seconds, not minutes
What used to be five minutes of typing per load becomes a glance and a confirm. One rep covers far more freight without the data entry.
How it works
How automated load intake works
The four steps that turn a rate confirmation in an inbox into a working load.
- 01
Forward the rate con
The rate confirmation lands in Tandem by email or upload — a PDF, a scan, or a forwarded message in whatever layout the customer sends.
- 02
Tandem reads it
Lane, stops, appointments, commodity, weight, rate, reference numbers, and accessorial terms are extracted into structured fields.
- 03
Review the flags
Tandem surfaces anything that needs a human — an unusual rate, a missing appointment window, an accessorial term worth watching.
- 04
Confirm and the load is live
One approval turns the draft into a working load, ready to cover, track, and drive to settlement.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is automated load intake?
Automated load intake is software reading an incoming rate confirmation and building the load record from it — lane, stops, commodity, rate, and accessorial terms — instead of a dispatcher re-keying the PDF by hand. It is the first job a TMS takes off the desk.
Does Tandem need a specific rate con format?
No. Tandem reads the rate confirmations your customers already send — PDFs, scans, and forwarded emails in whatever layout they use. It extracts the fields rather than relying on a fixed template.
What happens if the rate con is missing information?
Tandem flags the gap instead of guessing. A missing appointment window, an unclear rate, or an absent accessorial term is surfaced for a dispatcher to resolve before the load goes live.
Rate con to remittance
Bring control to your next load.
Intake is one of five jobs Tandem takes off the desk — intake, visibility, exceptions, drivers, and settlement, on one desk. See it on your freight.