ShippersFirst month free
Starting at
$3,000
a month, priced to how much freight you move
Everything above, set up with you on a call. Cancel any month.
Book my setup callStarts your free month.
For shippers who use brokers, carriers, or both
Book your own trucks. Keep the $292 a broker takes.
Drayford runs the whole load. It finds carriers on every channel, vets each one, tracks the truck and files all the paperwork. The broker’s cut stays in your pocket.
- From $3,000 a month
- First month free
- Month to month
Starts your free month. Cancel any month.
1,881 loads run on Drayford since July 2026.
$292: average broker cut per load in 2025. Armstrong & Associates brokerage net revenue ($19.6B of $128.3B) on FreightWaves’ $1,912 average load.
Every driver text, answered.
ETAs, pickup numbers, addresses and PODs at every stop. It learns how your office talks, so drivers get short, plain texts in your voice, not a robot’s. Your team only gets the loads that need a person.
Booked
carrier checked
Dispatched
driver and tracking link
Pickup
pickup number, check-in, BOL
On the road
ETA against the appointment
Delivery
check-in, right address
POD
read and filed
Can you send me the pick up number please?
Pickup number [pickup #] for the [city] load
[number] pickup number is no good for [city] pickup it should start with two letters six number
Pickup number [correct #]/[city]
whats the pickup ETA to [city]?
whats the pickup ETA to [city]?
whats your ETA to [delivery]?
35 minutes
so like 8:25am? shoot me a text when you check in
Delivery address not good
[receiver], [street address]. put it in your phone GPS, that one come up?
Real texts from one operation’s loads, October 2026, sent with no person typing. Names, places and numbers removed.
When a load goes wrong, Drayford is already on it.
Most shippers keep a broker for the bad day. Here’s what happens on yours.
- Your trucker can’t cover it
- The carriers already bidding on your lanes take the load, so nobody’s calling around at 6 a.m. Keep your truckers for every other day.
- The driver’s running late
- Drayford sees it on tracking, texts and calls the driver, and sends you the new ETA before your customer has to ask.
- The carrier isn’t who they say
- They never get the load. Authority and insurance are checked on FMCSA, the owner confirms with a code to their FMCSA phone, and the agent confirms the insurance. The truck’s VIN on the insurance has to match the truck on the ELD tracking. For the most protection, add Driver ID: your dock scans the driver’s license at pickup. Cargo theft losses rose 60% in 2025. CargoNet; Travelers.
- Your customer wants to know where it is
- Send one link with the location, BOL, POD and temp photos. 57% of shippers call real-time visibility a must-have. Transport Intelligence; project44.
- Something arrives damaged
- Every time, photo and POD is already on the load, so the claim with the carrier’s insurer starts with the proof. Coming soon Drayford files the claim and follows it up for you, with a person on any calls.
Rates going up? Ask thousands of carriers to bid, not five.
Most shippers can call 5 to 10 carriers or brokers when rates go up. Drayford picks the carriers best suited to each of your lanes, by where they run, what they haul and the size of their fleet, and emails them every day from your own company address.
It isn’t a mass blast. Every address is verified, no carrier gets the same email twice, and carriers who don’t answer get a rest. Our own send data sets the timing and spacing, and the email is built on months of testing what gets carriers to answer. They just reply with a number.
42,491 carrier inboxes reached this way since May 2026.
If you pay $2,000 and someone bids $1,800, book them or take the bid back to your current carrier.
Put in your own numbers.
Don’t know your broker’s margin? Start with $292, the 2025 industry average.
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Back in your pocket each month
$314,400 a year
An estimate from the numbers you enter. Not a promise of a result.
Your first loads run on Drayford within two weeks.
- Day 1One setup call. Send your lanes, sites and truckers as a spreadsheet or an export from the system you use now. We load them in for you.
- Week 1Your truckers set themselves up. Each one gets a link and finishes their own setup and checks, no chasing from your team. 395 carriers have set up on Drayford on their own, with no help. Your first bid campaigns go out on your lanes.
- Week 2Loads start running. Start with a lane or a few loads while your broker keeps the rest. Move more over as Drayford earns it.
Priced so the broker’s cut stays with you.
CarriersNo sales call
Free
Paid plans from $149 a month
Rate cons, PODs, invoices and pay in one free app.
For carriersDriver ID check, +$499 a month. Your dock scans the driver’s license and matches it to the driver on the load, then the dispatch goes to that driver’s phone. About 30 days from order to live, and every load then shows the driver as ID verified.
Case study · one customer
One drayage operation at an East Coast port, four months on Drayford.
1,881
loads run on it since July 2026.
83
people in operations, April to October, on about the same core freight.
55 sec
median reply to 3,453 driver and carrier texts in October, down from 32 minutes in July.
395
carriers set up on Drayford on their own, with no help.
Their results, not a promise of yours. Pulled 10/20/2026; loads and October texts counted through October 26. Headcount is the owner’s count. Loads compare Apr 1-19 with Oct 1-19, leaving out one seasonal customer and one lane they stopped.
Before you switch.
I already book carriers directly. Why Drayford?
Two reasons. More carriers bid on your lanes every day, so your current ones have to stay sharp on price. And Drayford takes the tracking, pickup numbers and paperwork off your team on every load.
Do I have to drop my trucker?
No. Invite your own truckers and book them in Drayford. The checked backup list is for the day they’re short.
How do I know the carrier is real?
Every carrier’s authority and insurance are checked against FMCSA before they can take a load. The owner confirms setup with a code sent to the phone or email FMCSA has on file, and the insurance is confirmed with their agent.
Who pays if a claim is denied?
You file with the carrier and their insurer, and every timestamp, photo and POD is already on the load. Coming soon Drayford works the whole claim for you, the way an experienced claims desk would: it builds the file, sends it to the insurer, follows up and pushes back on a denial. You choose how much of it Drayford handles. If you’d rather someone else held that risk on certain loads, keep your broker for those and put the rest on Drayford.
Who keeps the paper trail for disputes?
Every message, signed load confirmation, gate time, POD and temperature photo stays on the load with its timestamp. Short-pays and detention get settled from that record.
Can I try it on a few loads first?
Yes. Start with one lane or a few loads. You can still tender the rest to your broker right from Drayford, so every load sits in one place while you compare. Move more over as it proves itself. The first month is free, so you can see the difference before you pay.
Is it finished?
It’s in beta, and that works in your favor. A full drayage operation already runs every one of its loads on Drayford, and new automation and carrier bidding ship every week. Early shippers help decide what gets built next. That’s part of why the first month is free. Before you sign up, we tell you what’s live today and what goes live by your setup date.
What does it cost, and can I leave?
Plans start at $3,000 a month after your free month, priced to how much freight you move. There’s no contract, and you can cancel any month.
Keep the broker’s cut.
From $3,000 a month. First month free. Cancel any month.
Rather talk first? Email amedeo@drayford.com.
Starts your free month. Cancel any month.