A CarrierSource profile lives on CarrierSource. Your Happy Websites site lives on your own domain.
CarrierSource, a Chicago review site where shippers and brokers vet carriers, offers carriers a free profile and a Branding plan at $250 to $2,000 a year by fleet size, and its blog pitches the profile as a trucking company website. Paid terms renew automatically unless you give 30 days’ notice.
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Free, or $250 to $2,000 a year.
The Branding plan is $250 a year for one truck, $500 for 2 to 6, $1,000 for 7 to 20 and $2,000 for 21 to 99; fleets of 100+ are quoted. Add-ons such as embedding reviews on your website are quoted too.
It’s a profile page on CarrierSource’s site.
Its blog says CarrierSource provides “a professional and functional website created specifically for the trucking industry.” Its subscription agreement licenses paid features for your profile pages on the CarrierSource website.
Yes, paid terms do.
Each term renews for the same length unless you email notice at least 30 days before it ends. Fees are fixed for a year, then can change with a month’s notice.
With a paid review license.
You can show licensed reviews in your own marketing, unaltered, during a paid term. CarrierSource keeps the rights to the reviews and the site.
Puts you where brokers and shippers vet carriers.
It says 13,000+ shippers use it each month to find providers, and profiles pair verified reviews with FMCSA safety and insurance data. A paid add-on shows which shippers are looking.
We found no independent review ratings for CarrierSource when we checked.
CarrierSource makes sense as a free extra next to your own website: claim the profile, gather shipper and broker reviews, and link to it from your site.
A 15-minute call about your business and what you want the site to do.
Designed and written for you, included in your plan. Live in about two weeks.
And take hosting off your plate. The site and the domain are yours.
Before you cancel CarrierSource
Example homepage designs for a flatbed carrier, a regional freight carrier and a hotshot and expedited outfit. Tap one to see the whole page.
Flatbed carrier
Regional freight
Hotshot & expedited
Yes. CarrierSource, Inc. is a Chicago company that runs a review and research site where shippers and brokers find and vet carriers, with verified reviews shown next to FMCSA safety and insurance data. It says it holds more than 75,000 reviews. We found no independent ratings of CarrierSource itself.
A basic profile is free. The Branding plan costs $250 a year for one truck, $500 for 2 to 6 trucks, $1,000 for 7 to 20 and $2,000 for 21 to 99, and fleets of 100 or more are quoted. Add-ons such as embedding your reviews on your own website are priced on request.
It helps brokers who already search CarrierSource find and vet you, but it’s a page on CarrierSource’s site, not your own. You fill in its profile fields rather than designing your own pages, and competitor ads come off only on the paid Branding plan.
Paid terms renew automatically for the same length. To stop, email support@carriersource.io at least 30 days before your term ends. Your free profile stays up either way, since CarrierSource lists carriers that have a DOT number.
They do different jobs and work well together. Happy Websites gives you your own site on your own domain for $99 or $199 a month, written for shippers and drivers. CarrierSource costs less and brings broker and shipper reviews and leads, which we don’t. Keep your free profile and link to it from your site.