About QuoteMinute

QuoteMinute is building a quote desk for small and mid-size US freight brokerages: software that reads an inbound quote-request email, pulls out the load, and drafts the reply. The email quote parser is live and free to use. The full quote desk is not — it is in development, and the only thing you can do about it today is join the waitlist.

Alongside the product we publish a reference library for the people who actually run a quote desk: what a term means, what a regulation says, what a fee is and who owes it. That is what most of this site is, and it is written to be used at the desk rather than skimmed.

Who writes this

QuoteMinute does. Pages here are published under the company's name rather than an individual byline, and the company stands behind every one of them. There is no guest-post program, no sponsored placement, and no third party paying for a mention.

That is a deliberate trade, and it costs something: a page signed by a named expert carries authority that a company name does not. We would rather be checkable than credentialled. Everything below is how you check us.

The rules every page is held to

• Every number has a source, or it is labeled an estimate. Figures come from primary sources — FMCSA, the Federal Register, the eCFR, the EIA, ATRI, the DOT Office of Inspector General, OOIDA — linked inline where they are used and listed again at the bottom of the page. Where a number is ours rather than someone's published data, it says so and shows the method. We would rather drop a statistic than carry one we cannot trace.
• Every page has to add something. A template, a checklist, a worked calculation, or a structure the existing top results do not have. A page that only restates what is already the first result does not ship.
• Comparisons will be fair, including about competitors. We sell into this market, so any page that compares products will name us as one of them and will say where a competitor is better. No comparison page is published yet — this is the standard the first one has to meet, written down before it exists so it is harder to quietly lower.
• Pages are dated and revised. Every entry carries the date it was last updated. Rates, indexes and regulations move; a page that has gone stale is a page that is wrong, and we fix them in place rather than quietly leaving them.
• Nothing is published unreviewed. Every page goes through an adversarial accuracy review and then a human approval before it is live. The review is where four factual errors in the first ten entries were caught — including a fuel figure that inverted its own paragraph's conclusion — and it is the only reason to believe the rest.

What this site does not have yet

Saying what is missing is part of the same promise. We do not publish rate estimates or lane benchmarks today, because the model behind them is not documented yet, and the rule we set for ourselves is that the methodology ships before the first estimate does — not alongside it, and not after. We have no proprietary rate data, no customer survey, and no case studies, because we have not collected them. When any of that changes, it will show up on the methodology page first.

The published library today is the glossary. The guides and comparison sections are scaffolding with nothing in them yet — they are in the navigation because they are next, not because they are done.

Telling us we are wrong

If something on this site is wrong, it is worth more to us than it is annoying: a sourced correction is the cheapest quality signal we can get, and the sourcing rule above exists so that a mistake is findable rather than arguable. Send it to hello@quoteminute.com — the page and the number you are disputing is enough, a source is better. Corrections are made in place and the page's updated date changes with them.

That address is also the right one for anything else: a question about the parser, a term you want covered, or a correction to the methodology.