CapMates is the emergency load-recovery marketplace for U.S. trucking. Brokers find vetted capacity carriers — "caps" — near a broken-down truck in minutes. No phone trees. No gouging. Just trucks rolling.
Brokers cold-call their rolodex. Dispatchers scramble. Drivers sit. Receivers cancel. And the recovery carrier who finally picks up? They often charge whatever they want.
Average broker scramble time for a recovery load
Avg. premium recovery carriers demand over fair market
Brokers say recovery is their single most painful workflow
Verified national directories of vetted recovery caps — until now
Report the breakdown location, equipment type, weight, and pickup window. 30 seconds, mobile or desktop.
We surface nearby capacity carriers ranked by ETA, equipment match, insurance level, and on-time history. No randos.
Shipper approves. Cap accepts. Original carrier hands off. Rate is calculated fairly — gouging is structurally blocked.
Every recovery is a truck that didn't sit, a load that didn't cancel, and a check that cleared the same day.
CapMates exists because brokers don't trust strangers with a $200k load on the shoulder of I-44. Every Cap clears a six-point vetting bar — and stays cleared. Lapse on any check, and the badge goes dark.
CapMates publishes a transparent recovery rate that starts from the original linehaul, applies a fair urgency premium, and caps total markup. Brokers know what they'll pay before they click. Caps know what they'll earn before they roll. No one's on the phone yelling about $4/mile.
Brokers pay one transparent fee per successful recovery — not a percentage that grows with the load. Caps pay a membership for vetting and placement.
Why flat instead of a percentage? Carriers already lose 3–5% of every load to factoring companies. Stacking another percentage on top would eat the broker's margin too. A flat per-recovery fee keeps the economics workable for everyone — and predictable when you're quoting a shipper.
CapMates is the marketplace and trust layer — not a bank. Load funds move broker → carrier on standard industry terms. Our job is to make sure the right carrier got the load, the paperwork is clean, and the broker's payment behavior is on the record.
CapMates charges the broker's card $149 at booking — that's our platform fee, not the load.
Standard rate confirmation between the broker and the Cap. CapMates provides the template; the contract is theirs.
Signed bill of lading lands in the dashboard — visible to broker, cap, and shipper in real time.
ACH, check, or wire on the rate con terms — same as any non-recovery load. CapMates never touches load funds.
Every broker carries a verified average pay time, scored from POD-to-paid. Caps see it before they accept — fast payers win more recoveries.
Brokers can opt into NET-7 or NET-15 per recovery to attract caps when the lane is hot. Voluntary, visible, and recorded.
Slow-pay or no-pay? Strikes are visible across the platform. Repeat offenders lose access — and the signal feeds into ratemydispatchers.ai.
Need same-day cash before your broker pays? Use whatever factoring relationship you already have. CapMates can surface vetted factoring partners for verified Caps, but we don't take a cut of your load — we're here to make brokers' payment behavior visible, not to replace your bank.
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The 911 of freight — find vetted caps when a truck goes down.
Carrier-driven reviews of dispatch companies and brokers.
One pane of glass for trucks, drivers, equipment, and compliance.
Driver chat, location pings, and dispatch operations in one place.
We're onboarding brokers and capacity carriers state by state. Tell us who you are — we'll route you to the right next step.