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Analyze My Shipment
How It Works
Prepare your shipment before you request a quote.
Rate Farm doesn't quote freight or book carriers. It helps you understand your shipment first, so the quote conversation you have afterward is faster and better informed.
1
Tell Rate Farm about the shipment
Pickup and delivery ZIP codes, pallet dimensions and weight, what's being shipped, and whether it involves hazardous materials. Addresses, contacts, and a few other details are optional but recommended — they're what make the final document actually usable by a broker.
2
Rate Farm analyzes what you entered
It calculates density per handling unit and estimates an NMFC freight class from the current density-based scale, checks for accessorial considerations like liftgate, residential, or limited-access delivery, and flags anything that looks incomplete, borderline, or worth a second look.
3
You get two separate readouts
Preparation Status tells you whether the analysis itself has unresolved issues — an unconfirmed Hazmat status, a borderline density, handling units that don't share one class. Broker Handoff tells you something different: whether you've given Rate Farm the practical information — real addresses, a reachable phone number — needed to actually hand this to a freight professional. A shipment can be fully prepared with an incomplete handoff, or the reverse, and Rate Farm keeps those two questions separate rather than collapsing them into one number.
4
Review the Shipment Brief
A single-page document built from everything above — origin and destination, packaging, estimated class, special handling requirements, and anything that still needs attention. Download it as a PDF, copy it as text, or print it directly.
5
Take it to a broker or carrier for pricing
The Shipment Brief is built to hand off — a broker or carrier can work from it without needing to explain what Rate Farm is. They provide the actual freight quote and make their own final classification and operational determinations; Rate Farm's estimates are preparation guidance, not a substitute for that conversation.