Describe the freight you move. Makeform creates a trucking booking form for shipper contacts, lane, freight, timing, equipment, and accessorial requests.
Route booking requests to email, Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a freight workflow, edit the prompt, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Shippers requesting a dedicated dry-van haul
Format
Lane and freight intake with scheduling windows
Prompt size
248 chars
Example form structure
Lane and freight intake with scheduling windows
Company, booking contact, and reference
Origin, destination, and site contacts
Pickup and delivery windows
Commodity, pallets, weight, and dimensions
Equipment and accessorial needs
Suggested routing tags
Quote needed
Ready to schedule
Special handling
Ask for a pickup window and receiving window, not a single requested date. Dispatch needs the usable time range at both ends of the haul.
Step 1
Request
customer, lane, freight, and timing
Step 2
Review
dispatch checks capacity and requirements
Step 3
Confirm
customer receives the accepted schedule
Step 4
Dispatch
complete details follow the assigned load
Why structured booking intake
A trucking booking form consistently captures the dock window, weight, equipment, and other operational facts.
Require origin, destination, commodity, handling units, dimensions, and weight before a request reaches the scheduling queue.
Show reefer, flatbed, or liftgate questions only for relevant equipment and services.
Route structured requests for lane, capacity, quote, and schedule review.
Built around the freight
Choose a workflow, then add the equipment and services your company offers.
Capture lane, dry-van requirements, full-load quantity, dock method, appointment windows, and special site instructions.
Organize multiple freight items with package counts, dimensions, weight, stackability, class when known, and accessorial selections.
Add requested temperature, unit, pre-cooling, seal, and temperature-recording details to the standard booking questions.
Collect exact dimensions, loading equipment, tarp requests, site access notes, and drawings before equipment is assigned.
Booking workflow
Build one consistent request path around the decisions your team makes.
List your freight types, equipment, regions, and required booking details.
Add your trailers and accessorials, require measurements, and reveal equipment-specific questions.
Notify the right inbox or Slack channel and send structured rows to Google Sheets.
Check capacity, lane, timing, and freight, then send a quote or accepted schedule.
Form vs email vs generic booking page
Trucking requests depend on the lane, freight, equipment, facilities, and services, not just a calendar slot.
Field guide
These six sections give sales, operations, and dispatch the context to evaluate a shipment.
Customer and references
Collect the company, booking contact, account, and reference so later messages stay connected to the request.
Origin and destination
Collect complete addresses, site contacts, hours, dock details, directions, and access limits for both facilities.
Freight specifications
Ask for handling units, packaging, pallets, dimensions, weight, stackability, class when known, and useful attachments.
Timing and appointments
Record pickup and delivery windows, time zones, appointment requirements, and closures so dispatch can compare timing with capacity.
Equipment and services
Offer your actual equipment, then ask relevant temperature, tarp, liftgate, driver-assist, or notification questions.
Review and follow-up
Explain that submission creates a request for review, who responds next, and what still needs confirmation.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for freight companies replacing incomplete booking emails and phone notes.
It is an online intake for requesting freight transport. It gathers the lane, contacts, windows, commodity, dimensions, weight, equipment, and services for carrier review. Submission does not by itself confirm capacity.
Require booking and site contacts, addresses, pickup and delivery windows, commodity, handling units, dimensions, weight, equipment, loading methods, and accessorials. Show reefer, flatbed, or LTL details conditionally.
Yes. Branch from a service-type choice. The full truckload path can ask about lane, timing, trailer, and total load; the LTL path can collect multiple items, pallets, dimensions, weight, stackability, known class, liftgate, and appointments.
Yes. Conditionally ask reefer customers for temperature, unit, pre-cooling, and seal instructions. Ask flatbed customers for dimensions, loading equipment, tarping, overhang, site limits, and useful uploads.
Not unless your team accepts it. Label it as a request, review lane, capacity, timing, equipment, and freight, then send the customer an accepted schedule, quote, reference, or questions.
Notify an operations inbox or Slack channel and send structured data to Google Sheets or a Zapier workflow. Route requests by equipment, region, or customer choice.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting requests. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Add uploads for packing lists, photos, site images, or flatbed drawings. Still require dimensions and weight as structured fields so reviewers need not extract every fact from attachments.
Replace scattered freight requests with one clear intake.
