the product

What Bidders does, in full

bidding

Bid faster from broker offer emails without leaving your inbox.

Bidders is built around the broker offer emails you already receive — no board scraping, no credentials. The workflow keeps the original message one click away for the odd detail an offer leaves out.

  1. A board ranked by fit, not arrival time

    Route, equipment, miles, and pickup timing are pulled into fields you can scan, weighed against where your trucks actually sit right now.

  2. A bid composer with guardrails

    The reply is prepared with truck, ETA, and rate expectation filled in. A road-deadhead guard checks the trip to pickup before you send.

  3. A dispatcher stays in control

    Review broker responses and decide the next step before you send.

  4. You still click send

    Bidders does not auto-book loads. A dispatcher reviews every prepared reply before it goes out.

driver app

The driver app tracks assigned loads.

Bidders Driver is the driver-side companion to the dispatch board. After a bid is accepted, dispatch creates and assigns follow-up work; the app tracks assigned loads.

Shown capability

Trips and Load Radar

Assigned stops, times, and route match what dispatch sees on the board, plus nearby matched loads a driver can flag interest on.

Location shared for assigned loads

Location is shared with dispatch while tracking is switched on in the app. A trip in progress turns it on; the driver can switch it off from the home screen.

Proof of delivery

Upload proof-of-delivery photos with the load.

Dispatch chat on the load

Dock changes and delivery instructions stay in one thread tied to the trip, not scattered across texts.

back office

The paperwork stays organized after the load moves.

Loads, fleet, and teams live in one system, with an accounting desk that turns RateCons, PODs, and workbook rows into a decision instead of a folder of attachments.

review desk

A load lifecycle that can't skip steps

Delivered, free, confirmed, invoiced, closed: the state machine rejects a backward or skipped move, so closeout can't get ahead of the paperwork.

Fleet, drivers, and teams in one place

Vehicle and driver records export to spreadsheet with the columns and filters you choose, so a compliance or roster pull doesn't need a rebuild each time.

Roles that match how a desk actually splits work

Teams and permissions separate who can bid, who can approve accounting, and who administers the account.

Also included

tracking

route field / BR-204GPS age 01m
CV-17 / box truckdeadhead 14 mipickup ETA 08:24
dispatch origin Dallas TX pickup / ■ CV-17 live GPS Austin TX destination deadhead / 14 mi loaded / 196 mi Origin dispatch Dallas TX pickup CV-17 live GPS Austin TX destination deadhead / 14 mi loaded / 196 mi
deadheadloadedCV-17 reporting

Road-deadhead distance for candidate matching.

Candidate matching includes road-deadhead distance.

  1. Road-deadhead candidate distance

    Candidate matching includes distance and drive time to pickup. Verified Valhalla distance is one supported source.

  2. Location shared for assigned loads

    Location is shared with dispatch while tracking is switched on in the app. A trip in progress turns it on; the driver can switch it off from the home screen.

  3. Dispatch context

    Dispatch can use the assigned load context to coordinate work.

  4. Assignment-based context

    Position updates are associated with the assigned load context.

in-product training

academy

Train a new dispatcher on the loads, not on the fly.

Academy is a training course built into the product: lessons, quizzes, homework, and a proctored final exam, organized into cohorts a candidate joins with an invite code.

Courses and cohorts

Candidates join a cohort with an invite code and progress through gated lessons in order.

Quizzes, homework, and a final exam

Each lesson can carry a quiz or homework; a proctored final exam gates completion.

Grading and readiness insights

Academy managers grade open responses and see cohort-level progress and readiness before a candidate is handed a live board.