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The Freight Rate Company is a web based freight shipping management service. They are based in Daytona Beach, Florida and service customers in 181 countries around the world.

The Freight Rate Co. is a division of MacroTransport Services which specializes in full truckload services (Van, Flatbed and Bulk Tanker) and also provides international freight forwarding and brokerage services to and from 181 countries worldwide. The other two divisions, MacroTransport and MacroTransport Logistics, provide freight management and carrier management services. MacroTransport Services GmbH, operating out of Sinn-Fleisbach ( Frankfurt ) Germany provides freight forwarding services directly for European customers.

Services
The Freight Rate Company’s primary service is providing freight quotes to customers for various shipment types such as LTL, truckload, small package and international shipments in a with a user interface that is similar to that of Priceline where the customer is given several options to choose from. They leverage their business model and volume to the freight carrier industry on behalf of clients who typically can’t receive fortune 500 company type pricing on their own, receive high end service from the larger on-line competitors or asset based carriers due to insufficient freight volume.

The Freight Rate Co. has evolved into a technology company offering a wide variety of solutions to help streamline many back office shipping functions. Customers can integrate The Freight Rate Co.’s API into a customer’s website that provides them a best in class solution that will not only provide freight rates to their customers but also produce and send Bill Of Ladings via the internet to the customers carriers as well as provide reporting structure.

History
The Freight Rate Co. started operations under the direction of Chuck Casey in 2004 and its parent company MacroTransport in 1998. With an operation that consisted of just two people, it has now has expanded to providing third party logistics services to shipping customers in 181 countries around the world.