Loadsmart API
Loadsmart documents ShipperGuide TMS and Opendock REST APIs with OAuth2 and HMAC-signed webhooks. Credentials are partner-gated: active Shipper or Carrier accounts request them through an account manager. The webhook catalog is early, with one event live.
Frequently asked questions
Loadsmart scores C on the API Report Card. Loadsmart documents ShipperGuide TMS and Opendock REST APIs with OAuth2 and HMAC-signed webhooks. Credentials are partner-gated: active Shipper or Carrier accounts request them through an account manager. The webhook catalog is early, with one event live.
Loadsmart has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Loadsmart is a digital freight brokerage and logistics technology company that combines a brokered carrier network with a software portfolio spanning shipper TMS, carrier TMS, dock scheduling, yard management, and AI freight analytics.
Primary vertical: Fleet / Trucking / Logistics, specifically mid-market and enterprise shippers, freight brokers, warehouse operators with active inbound/outbound docks, and asset-based carriers. A shipper logs into ShipperGuide, creates a shipment, requests instant rates across modes (FTL/LTL/drayage/intermodal), books capacity with Loadsmart brokerage or a contracted carrier, and dispatches a tender.
Mid-to-high inside the digital freight brokerage and TMS niche.
Loadsmart APIs sit on the money path: every spot rate quote, tender, and booking creates a financial obligation between shipper, broker, and carrier; every dock appointment in Opendock controls live yard capacity at customer DCs; every tracking event drives detention/layover calculations that directly determine accessorial billing.
Loadsmart was founded in 2014 in New York City and grew quickly during the 2020–2022 freight boom, raising a $200M Series D in 2021.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Loadsmart API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Loadsmart data. See the Loadsmart integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/loadsmart-api.