Take control of your Freight Rates
Discover how you can benchmark your freight rates, track market trends, and validate tenders using real market data.
Freight Marketplace
Market Insights for shippers
Stop guessing freight prices. Know the real market rate
Market Insights shows you what road freight really costs today — so you can negotiate, plan tenders, and manage budgets with confidence. Built on real market data from 120,000+ daily transports across 400 European corridors.
BENEFIT
Your view into the future
Freight rates can rise quickly when capacity tightens. By the time increases reach your contracts, it’s often too late to react.
Market Insights shows rate trends, capacity signals and rejection patterns early — helping you decide whether current price increases reflect real market developments, plan the right tender timing and prepare budgets with a clearer view of where rates are heading.
BENEFIT
Negotiate with market-backed benchmarks
Freight rate discussions are influenced by market conditions that are not always easy to assess. Without reliable benchmarks, it’s difficult to understand whether a price reflects current market levels.
Market Insights lets you compare your rates with market averages on lane and postcode level — giving you factual context to support negotiations and internal approvals.
BENEFIT
Make smarter spot vs contract decisions
Spot prices can spike during tight capacity periods, but sometimes they’re lower than contracts. Without market visibility, sourcing decisions become guesswork.
Market Insights shows spot trends and contract benchmarks so you know when to buy spot, when to secure contracts and how to balance both.
Available modules
Who is Market Insights for?
Operational
When you need answers for today’s shipments
Monitoring
When you need to explain and defend cost developments
Strategic
When you plan ahead and manage long-term cost risk.
Operational
When you need answers for today’s shipments
Monitoring
When you need to explain and defend cost developments
Strategic
When you plan ahead and manage long-term cost risk.
Everything you need to understand Freight Rates
Markets
Markets provides a high-level overview of the European FTL market. Price development and capacity movements are easily recognizable by looking at our EU level price and capacity indices. Enhance your understanding of the market and make better decisions about your tenders.
Lanes
Lanes provides an in-depth analysis of your trade lanes at country or regional level. With all-in transport rates and leading indicators like rejections and spot offers at your disposal, you get a comprehensive overview of a lane which helps you to improve your transportation strategy.
Costs
Better understand the cost drivers for carriers. Costs provides total cost of ownership data at both market and lane level. The market costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors on European level. The lane costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors for the 70 biggest lanes in Europe.
Rejection Rate & Spot Offers
The price per km is the ultimate metric, no doubt. But tracking rejection rates and spot offers can also be used as leading indicators for spot pricing. We track everything so you get all the information you need.
Rate on Demand
Rate on Demand is a service that predicts all-in buy rates for FTL transports on the spot market. After entering a set of transport parameters (postal codes, loading and unloading dates and times, vehicle type, industry and more), the service instantly returns a spot price including all extra costs for the requested FTL transport.
Freight Perspectives
Market data is essential, but it is not always self-explanatory. Freight Perspectives brings expert interpretation directly into Market Insights, so procurement teams can turn trends into actions. Get clear takeaways on market developments, risks and opportunities, delivered in digestible formats that are easy to share internally and use in planning. Now included in Market Insights.
Market Intelligence Advisory
Our Market Intelligence Advisory team gives you an objective benchmark based on validated, cleansed data and an expert team that helps interpret what the numbers mean for your specific network and procurement strategy. The result is clearer negotiation leverage, better budget planning and more confident procurement decisions.
Markets provides a high-level overview of the European FTL market. Price development and capacity movements are easily recognizable by looking at our EU level price and capacity indices. Enhance your understanding of the market and make better decisions about your tenders.
Lanes provides an in-depth analysis of your trade lanes at country or regional level. With all-in transport rates and leading indicators like rejections and spot offers at your disposal, you get a comprehensive overview of a lane which helps you to improve your transportation strategy.
Better understand the cost drivers for carriers. Costs provides total cost of ownership data at both market and lane level. The market costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors on European level. The lane costs view shows the detailed development of all cost factors for the 70 biggest lanes in Europe.
The price per km is the ultimate metric, no doubt. But tracking rejection rates and spot offers can also be used as leading indicators for spot pricing. We track everything so you get all the information you need.
Rate on Demand is a service that predicts all-in buy rates for FTL transports on the spot market. After entering a set of transport parameters (postal codes, loading and unloading dates and times, vehicle type, industry and more), the service instantly returns a spot price including all extra costs for the requested FTL transport.
Market data is essential, but it is not always self-explanatory. Freight Perspectives brings expert interpretation directly into Market Insights, so procurement teams can turn trends into actions. Get clear takeaways on market developments, risks and opportunities, delivered in digestible formats that are easy to share internally and use in planning. Now included in Market Insights.
Our Market Intelligence Advisory team gives you an objective benchmark based on validated, cleansed data and an expert team that helps interpret what the numbers mean for your specific network and procurement strategy. The result is clearer negotiation leverage, better budget planning and more confident procurement decisions.
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FAQs
Market Insights helps shippers understand what is happening in the freight market right now. It provides market context and data that support procurement, pricing and negotiation decisions.
Freight markets lack transparency, making it difficult to judge whether prices reflect real market conditions. Market Insights adds market context so you can validate rates, understand trends and make more confident decisions.
Market Insights helps you make better sourcing decisions, manage freight costs more proactively and understand how your lanes compare to the wider market. It delivers this through clear market views and lane-level analysis.
Market Insights consists of three core modules: Core Metrics, Rate Benchmark, and Contract Rate on Demand. The modules show market trends, compare your rates to market averages and provide price guidance for specific lanes. Together, they give a broader view of freight pricing and market development.
Core Metrics with a one-country dashboard (Germany) is available free of charge. Pricing for additional modules depends on how you use the tool — for example, the number of lanes you benchmark, the number of rate requests you need, or the number of countries you want to cover. Book a demo or contact us to discuss the setup that fits your network.
Yes. You can access current rate indications for specific lanes, supporting new tenders, network changes, or pricing scenarios where you need additional market context.
In addition to data, Freight Perspectives is included by default. It comes with expert commentary that explains what is driving market developments and what those changes mean for freight planning and procurement.
Market Insights works well as a self-service tool, but some situations require deeper, like-for-like comparisons and expert guidance. Market Intelligence Advisory helps you benchmark using carefully selected peer data — for example, comparing only with shippers from similar industries or transport profiles. You also become part of a shipper community facing similar challenges, with access to dedicated webinars, events and tailored market reports. The Advisory team acts as a strategic sparring partner and trusted point of contact, helping you interpret market developments and turn insights into concrete procurement actions.
Market Insights combines anonymized transactional freight data, predictive rate modeling and capacity trend analysis to generate reliable market benchmarks. By aggregating shipment data across thousands of European lanes and applying statistical normalization, the system filters out outliers and identifies true market movements. This methodology ensures benchmarks reflect actual trading conditions, not isolated carrier quotes, enabling defensible procurement decisions.
Market Insights is based on real shipment data from more than 120,000 daily transports across >400 European corridors, giving a broad and reliable picture of market movements. It provides precise rate visibility down to postcode level, helping you benchmark with a level of detail many tools do not offer. You can compare your own transport data with the market through bulk uploads or API connections. As part of the wider Transporeon Transportation Network, Market Insights connects with procurement and execution solutions and is backed by Transporeon and Trimble — long established logistics technology providers.