The BulkLoads family
Bulk Insights
Rate benchmarks for bulk freight, built from settled invoices instead of guesses.
What is Bulk Insights?
Bulk Insights is a market data product from BulkLoads that benchmarks bulk freight rates using settled invoices, not posted rates or surveys. It shows rate movement by commodity group, fuel-adjusted cost-per-mile, and where freight is concentrating across the BulkLoads network.
Everybody quotes rates; almost nobody knows them. Posted rates are asking prices, and surveys are memories. Bulk Insights is built from settled invoices, the rates that actually got paid, which makes it the closest thing bulk freight has to a real market index.
Carriers use it to quote with confidence and spot firming markets before the freight moves. Shippers and brokers use it to budget lanes honestly. Either way, you're negotiating from data instead of folklore.
Reviewed September 2026
Why people use it
Settled-invoice rates
Benchmarks come from freight that actually moved and got paid, not asking prices.
Market movement
Rate trends by commodity group over 3, 6, 9, or 12 months, so you see markets firming before everyone else does.
Real margins
Fuel adjustment and cost-per-mile built in, so the number you quote reflects what you keep.
One family
The insurance side of the house.
Know your rates, know your costs. Insurance is one of the biggest, and we quote it inside the same family.
Ready when you are
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