Cost savings in every market condition. Guaranteed coverage on all your freight. No contract needed.
Guaranteed Primary helps you reduce costs across market cycles while delivering 100% tender acceptance and unrivaled transparency. Access in-depth analytics for a full picture of shipment characteristics, rates, savings, and performance at the lane level.
Enrolled shippers saved an average of 11% on their freight with 17% higher tender acceptance versus the market—all without the need to renegotiate contracts and mini-bids.
Snap up competitive rates across market cycles. Convoy’s proprietary machine learning algorithms ensure rates automatically adjust with market conditions at a lane level while ensuring 100% tender acceptance, eliminating the need to reshop.
Choose which lanes to enroll in Guaranteed Primary and how frequent you want rate updates. We review rates with you prior to uploading them to your TMS. You’re billed as loads are tendered and shipments are completed—no reconciliation needed.
From your most business-critical, high-volume lanes to your difficult-to-source, low-volume lanes, there’s coverage with 100% tender acceptance waiting for you on Guaranteed Primary. Always.
Not a fan of volume caps? Neither are we. With more than 400,000 trucks in Convoy’s network, we provide you with unmatched capacity that flexes with your demand.
See just how competitive Convoy’s rates are, along with your estimated savings, in monthly reports. We’ll also show you our performance down to the lane level, covering total spend, rate per mile, tender acceptance, on-time pickup and delivery and more.
We like Convoy’s dynamic pricing model. Although the rates will ebb and flow over time, they are priced based on real time market conditions. Unlike our brokers, Convoy does not have to ‘mark up’ their margins to account for the static rate risk due to market variability.
{Convoy} was the first carrier to lower rates for us in 2022. This kind of partnership is a game changer for the long run.
At the end of the day, we know what we pay. We know other providers are more expensive and might not be the most effective partner. This transparency helps me find a better way {to source capacity}.
We're producing 24/7. We can't shut the machines off. We have to ship product out so we can make more. I want us to operate in a transparent relationship. I see {Guaranteed Primary} laying the groundwork.
Leading indicators point to the freight market softening. As truck prices and tender rejection rates continue to decline, transportation teams are snapping up cost savings. Learn how you can too.
On FreightWaves’ award-winning podcast, trucking industry veteran and Convoy VP of Sales Spencer Hennigar shared how shippers can save big and stay resilient across market conditions with Guaranteed Primary.
Avoiding out-of-stock scenarios was business critical for this Fortune 50 retailer. Learn how their pilot with Guaranteed Primary led to an estimated $1.6 million in savings and 100% tender acceptance.
Guaranteed Primary taps three main levers to guarantee capacity to shippers:
Guaranteed Primary rates are based on Convoy’s proprietary pricing algorithms that predict the cost to source trucks and take into consideration factors such as 1) external market conditions, 2) lane characteristics, and 3) Convoy’s network strength.
In cost-plus pricing programs, truck costs are determined based on the actual incurred cost once the shipment has been completed. In index-based pricing programs, truck costs are estimated based on the market index for a given period at the time freight is tendered.
Guaranteed Primary rates are determined by algorithms that forecast truck costs for a given period and time that freight is tendered. You know the rate upfront, so there’s no need for billing reconciliation. Unlike cost plus and index pricing programs, Convoy takes on the liability of rates being accurate in Guaranteed Primary and has a vested interest in driving costs down.
Trust and transparency are core to Guaranteed Primary. As a part of the program for all enrolled lanes, we share monthly reports with you. The report includes the following: