Freight management using dynamic route guides

A computer implemented method, comprising:

• analyzing carrier data for a plurality of carriers to identify services and qualifications of carriers to provide transportation services;
• generating meta tags for the carriers to describe service attributes and qualification attributes of the carriers, wherein the meta tags are dynamically updated to indicate changes to the service attributes and the qualification attributes of the carriers;
• creating a strategic capacity profile that defines a strategy for transporting a freight load from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the strategic capacity profile includes a selection of one or more of the meta tags that define the strategy for transporting the load;
• receiving a request for a set of carriers having available capacity to transport the freight load;
• retrieving the strategic capacity profile that defines the strategy for transporting the freight load;
• identifying the set of carriers using in part the meta tags included in the strategic capacity profile, wherein the set of carriers have attributes that correspond to the service attributes and the qualification attributes described by the meta tags;
• and
• providing, to a graphical user interface, carrier data for the set of carriers to allow one or more carriers to be selected to receive a tender of the freight load, wherein the carrier data displayed in the graphical user interface is updated in response to at least one of the meta tags being dynamically updated.

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium including instructions embodied thereon for a graphical user interface, the instructions when executed by one or more processors:

• send, to a transportation management service, transportation parameters for transporting a freight load from an origin location to a destination location,
• wherein the transportation parameters allow a strategic capacity profile that corresponds to the transportation parameters to be identified where the strategic capacity profile defines a strategy for transporting the freight load using at least one meta tag describing a carrier attribute,
• wherein the at least one meta tag is dynamically updated to indicate changes to the carrier attribute described by the at least one meta tag;
• receive carrier data for a plurality of carriers that have the carrier attribute described by the at least one meta tag;
• and
• display the carrier data for the plurality of carriers to allow one or more carriers to be selected to receive a tender of the freight load, wherein the carrier data displayed in the graphical user interface is updated in response to the at least one meta tag being dynamically updated.