Describe the freight you move. Makeform turns your brief into a shipping quote form for lanes, commodities, dimensions, timing, equipment, and special services.
Route quote requests to email, Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a workflow, edit the prompt, and send it to the builder. The fields are an example, not a live rate.
Audience
Shippers requesting less-than-truckload pricing
Format
Multi-step lane and freight intake
Prompt size
265 chars
Example form structure
Multi-step lane and freight intake
Origin and destination postal codes
Pickup date and location types
Handling units, dimensions, and weight
Accessorial services needed
Photos or freight documents
Suggested routing tags
LTL requests
Full truckload
Needs clarification
Ask for handling-unit count, dimensions, and weight separately; total weight alone may not describe the space required.
Step 1
Identify
customer, mode, lane, and dates
Step 2
Describe
commodity, units, dimensions, and weight
Step 3
Qualify
equipment, access, and special handling
Step 4
Route
complete request to the right pricing desk
Better quote intake
Gather the operational facts that affect capacity and cost before an estimator reviews the request.
Use conditional paths: temperature for reefer, freight class for LTL, and securement for open-deck cargo.
Separate handling units, dimensions, weights, dates, and postal codes into structured fields.
Tag requests by mode and send each submission to the relevant pricing desk.
Freight modes
Start with mode or an unsure choice, then reveal the relevant fields.
Capture freight class, handling units, stackability, dock access, and accessorials.
Collect lane dates, equipment type, loading method, gross weight, and facility appointment constraints for dedicated moves.
Ask for service scope, ports, volume, special conditions, and documents.
Use exact addresses, pickup readiness, delivery deadline, package details, site access, and proof-of-delivery preferences.
Build your intake
Describe your lanes, shipment types, and qualification rules, then review the generated questions.
Name your modes, service area, equipment, and customer types.
Require core fields, add unsure options, and test every conditional path.
Send inquiries to the right inbox with the details needed for review.
Share or embed the form, then clarify, price, and follow up.
Intake approaches
A quote form improves the information entering your existing rating process.
Field guide
These six groups give pricing staff a usable first picture of the customer, route, freight, schedule, equipment, and exceptions.
Customer
Collect business, contact, role, email, and phone. Ask whether the requester is the shipper, consignee, or broker.
Lane
Collect postal codes or full addresses, plus location types that reveal access and appointment needs.
Freight
Separate commodity, packaging, unit count, dimensions, and weight. Include stackability, freight class, and an unsure option.
Timing
Collect freight readiness, pickup window, delivery date, facility hours, and date flexibility.
Equipment & service
Let customers choose a mode or unsure, then show only supported equipment and service scopes.
Exceptions
Ask customers to flag oversize, hazardous, fragile, or temperature-sensitive freight and upload available documents.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for logistics teams turning incomplete inquiries into structured freight requests.
It is an online intake for a shipment's route, dates, commodity, packaging, dimensions, weight, equipment, and special services. Carriers, brokers, forwarders, or couriers review the structured request before pricing or clarification.
Usually require contact information, lane, ready date, commodity, handling-unit count, dimensions, and weight. Equipment and accessorial fields depend on mode. Offer an unsure choice for technical terms such as freight class.
Yes. Use a mode selector and conditional branches. Ask LTL customers about class and liftgate service, truckload customers about trailers, international customers about ports and scope, and local customers about addresses and deadlines.
This generator creates the intake form, not a universal freight rating engine. The form can collect the inputs your team or connected workflow needs. If you have defined pricing rules, review the related quote calculator tool or connect the submission to your existing process; complex rates may still need staff review.
Use separate numeric fields for unit count, length, width, height, unit weight, and total weight, with unit labels. Ask about stackability. For mixed freight, allow another item group or packing-list upload.
Yes. Add file uploads for packing lists, photos, diagrams, or available shipment information. Explain what helps the review, but avoid requiring documents customers may not have yet.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. You can refine the generated questions and test each mode-specific path before sharing the form with customers.
Ask for lane, windows, location type, access, commodity, packaging, dimensions, weight, stackability, equipment, and special services. Add notes for exceptions, then route submissions by mode.
Turn shipment details into a clear request.
