Annex Orbis

Brokers · asset-based

Quote it as a broker. Haul it on your own truck.

For brokerages that run their own fleet. Price the lane from your truck’s position and its driver’s real hours, dispatch it from the same board, and send the shipper a link that shows the truck on its way in.

Load builder and dispatch boardAvailableUse my truck, ELD hours, ETAs, tracking linksIn testingCover or broker out, per loadComing
Talk to usFollow one load
In testing: the ELD (not yet registered with FMCSA), truck navigation, the driver apps and tracking links. Coming: covering a load with your truck or brokering it out from one screen.

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Where it works

The brokerage on the web. The truck in the cab. The links on any phone.

Quotes, the dispatch board and the books run in the web app on a computer or a tablet browser. Your drivers’ phone and tablet apps carry the ELD and navigation. Quote links and tracking links open in any browser, phones included.

Asset-based, surface by surface

  • WebAvailableRoute Estimate, the load builder and dispatch board, carrier research and the books. Use my truck, the broker view, ETAs and tracking links are in testing. A computer, or a tablet browser 768 px and wider.
  • TabletIn testingThe cab tablet: ELD hours of service, truck navigation and route changes from dispatch. Tenders show as a read-only list.
  • MobileIn testingThe driver’s phone: hours of service, loads assigned by your dispatch, work cards, inspections on Android. A phone’s browser opens quote and tracking links, not the workspace.

The tablet and mobile apps are test builds on company devices, not in any app store.

One load, end to end

Follow L-2061 from the quote to the invoice.

One Bluebonnet Foods load on Larkspan Freight’s own truck, Springfield, Ohio to Dallas, Texas. Every step runs on one platform, and every step carries its status.

L-2061 · Bluebonnet Foods

Lane
Springfield, OH → Dallas, TX
Miles
1,022 loaded · 24 empty
Truck
T-14 · Marcus R. · solo
Quote
Q-000124 · sell $2,475
On the quote
Buy $2,150 · margin $325 · 13.1%
Brokerage
Larkspan Freight · USDOT 9900421 · MC 9904217
  1. 1Price · In testing
  2. 2Quote · In testing
  3. 3Build · Available
  4. 4Dispatch · Available
  5. 5Drive · In testing
  6. 6Track · In testing
  7. 7Arrive · In testing
  8. 8Bill · In testing

  1. Mon 9:12 AMRoute Estimate

    Priced from T-14, where it stands

    Rosa Delgado picks Use my truck. T-14 is in Dayton, 24 empty miles from the pickup, and Marcus R. has a full day of hours. Buy $2,150, sell $2,475, margin $325. She saves it as Q-000124.

    In testingQuotes & lane pricing

  2. Mon 9:20 AMQuote link

    Bluebonnet sees the price, never the cost

    Sofia Marin opens the link on her phone: $2,475, $2.42 per mile, the stops and their windows, valid until Oct 19. She answers with the Email button.

    In testingQuotes & lane pricing

  3. Mon 11:40 AMLoad builder

    The load, built once

    Daniel Cruz enters L-2061: Bluebonnet’s plant and its Dallas DC with appointments, a 53′ dry van, 38,400 lb of canned goods, the PO number and the $2,475 rate.

    AvailableThe TMS

  4. Mon 4:05 PMDispatch board

    On T-14, with Marcus

    L-2061 goes on the dispatch board with T-14 and Marcus R., beside every other truck’s day, stop by stop.

    AvailableThe TMS

  5. Tue 7:05 AMCab tablet

    His hours, his route

    Marcus leaves Springfield loaded. The ELD keeps his hours of service, and navigation routes T-14 for its height and weight, with his drive time beside the next turn.

    In testingTruck navigation

  6. Tue 7:20 AMTracking link

    Bluebonnet follows its own delivery

    Daniel sends Sofia a link to the Dallas stop, good for 7 days. She confirms a six-digit code from her email and sees the ETA, the timeline and, on the leg into her stop, the truck.

    In testingTracking & updates

  7. Wed 9:40 AMDispatch board

    An ETA that knows about the rest

    Since Springfield the board’s ETA has counted Marcus’s break and his 10-hour rest near Forrest City, Arkansas. With 88 miles to go it reads 11:14 AM, inside the 10 AM–noon window, with his own 11:20 AM beside it.

    In testingThe TMS

  8. Wed 11:40 AMInvoices

    Billed the same morning

    T-14 is in at 11:16. Rosa enters Bluebonnet’s $2,475 invoice in Invoices. At the invoice’s /pay link, Bluebonnet views it, then approves or disputes it after a code.

    In testingBilling & carrier pay
  • The invoice drawn from the delivered load, with the buy and sell kept on the loadComing

Price it from your truck

Your own truck’s cost, as your buy rate.

Route Estimate prices the lane from one of your trucks: from where it is now, with its drivers’ real hours. Switch to the broker view and that cost is your buy rate, beside the sell rate and the margin.

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  • In testingFrom where the truck isPick a truck that reported a position in the last 30 minutes. The empty miles to the pickup are priced from there.
  • In testingWith its drivers’ real hoursBreaks and the 10-hour rest come from the drivers’ hours of service, solo or team, so the transit time is one your driver can drive.
  • In testingBuy, sell and marginSell for a target margin, 15% on the rate card, or enter the sell rate. A toll that can’t be priced stays visible, never counted as zero.
  • AvailableDiesel from the EIA benchmarkThe U.S. weekly average with its date and source, one tap to use and yours to change.

Quotes & lane pricing

Dispatch it and drive it

Your board, your truck, your driver’s hours.

Build the load once and put it on your own truck. From there the truck does the reporting: the ELD keeps the driver’s hours, navigation routes for the truck, and the board’s ETA counts the breaks and rest your driver has to take.

  • Load builder and dispatch boardAvailable
  • ELD hours of service on the driver’s phone or cab tabletIn testing
  • Truck navigation for the truck’s height, weight, axles and hazmatIn testing
  • HOS-aware ETAs and off-route flags on the boardIn testing
  • Driver apps on company phones and tabletsIn testing

FMCSA registration in progressThe ELD is in field testing.

Driving is recorded automatically while the truck moves; at any stop the driver can choose any status, Drive included.

The TMSThe ELDTruck navigation

The Android tablet’s guidance screen, redrawn from the app, with the office’s board · fictional trip

Show the shipper the truck

Your truck, on the shipper’s phone.

Send a tracking link from the load. The recipient confirms a six-digit code sent to their email, then sees the ETA from your driver’s real hours, what has happened so far and, on the leg into their stop, where the truck is.

In testing

  • One stop or the whole load, for 1 or 7 days
  • The code goes to the address the link was sent to and expires in 30 minutes
  • Other stops show only their kind and city
  • The page refreshes itself every 30 seconds while it is open
  • Update emails: on the way, arrived, done, running lateComing
  • Links and codes by textComing
  • Documents on the linkComing

Tracking & updates

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Two companies, one owner

The brokerage and the fleet, each with its own books.

Many asset-based brokers keep the trucks in a company of their own, say Larkspan Trucking beside Larkspan Freight. Each keeps its own books, one sign-in switches between them, and the fleet’s loads run on the fleet’s own board.

  • Record what’s owedIn testingWhen Larkspan Freight’s bank pays for the fleet, mark the line as owed by Larkspan Trucking. The fleet’s books get a card asking it to add its side.
  • See the balanceIn testingBooks › Reports shows what is owed between your companies, from each company’s own books.
  • Or one company, both rolesIn testingThe way L-2061 ran: one company with the Broker and Carrier roles, the quotes, the trucks and the books in one place.
  • The ledger and core reportsAvailableBank feeds, the ledger, profit and loss and the balance sheet, for each company.

There are no consolidated statements across companies. Loads run on the board of the company that owns the trucks; handing a load from one of your companies to the other is coming.

AccountingBilling & carrier pay

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Cover it or broker it out

Your truck or a carrier’s, decided per load.

Today you can price the same lane both ways in Route Estimate: once from your own truck, once with a carrier’s rate as the buy rate. Next, the choice moves onto the load: cover it with your truck, broker it out, or split it by leg, and the tender lands on the carrier’s own dispatch board.

Today

  • Price one lane from your truck and with a carrier’s rate entered as the buy rateIn testing

What we’re building next

  • Cover with your truck or broker it out, per loadComing
  • Split a load by leg: your truck to Memphis, a carrier the rest of the wayComing
  • The tender lands on the carrier’s dispatch board and its driver’s phoneComing
  • Before you tender, see whether the carrier’s driver has the hours to make the windowComing
  • On loads brokered to carriers on ANNEX ORBIS, their truck’s position and ETA on your tracking linkComing
  • Buy and sell kept on the load, and the invoice drawn from the delivered loadComing

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Status, plainly

What runs today, what’s in testing, what’s coming.

Available is live in production. In testing is built and running, not yet proven with real customers. Coming is planned or partly built.

Price the lane

  • Route Estimate with the dated EIA weekly diesel benchmarkAvailable
  • Use my truck: priced from a truck’s position with its drivers’ hoursIn testing
  • Broker view: buy, sell and margin side by sideIn testing
  • Saved quotes with revisions, and a quote link that never shows costIn testing

Run it on your trucks

  • Load builder: multi-stop loads with appointmentsAvailable
  • Dispatch boardAvailable
  • Broker and Carrier roles on one companyIn testing
  • ELD and hours of serviceIn testing
  • Truck navigationIn testing
  • HOS-aware ETAs and off-route flagsIn testing
  • Driver apps on company phones and tabletsIn testing

Keep the shipper informed

  • Code-verified tracking links, one stop or the whole load, 1 or 7 daysIn testing
  • The truck’s position on the leg into the recipient’s stopIn testing
  • Update emails, links and codes by textComing
  • Documents on the linkComing

Books for one owner

  • Bank feeds, ledger and core reportsAvailable
  • Two companies, one owner: what’s owed between themIn testing
  • Invoices and /pay links, entered by handIn testing
  • Invoice drawn from a delivered loadComing

Check carriers for overflow

  • Public FMCSA records with dates: authority, insurance filings, inspections, crashesAvailable
  • Out-of-service statisticsAvailable
  • Do-not-use list (warns only)In testing
  • Rate confirmation and carrier–broker agreement starters for e-signatureIn testing

Cover or broker out

  • Cover with your truck or broker it out, per loadComing
  • Leg-level tenderingComing
  • The tender lands on the carrier’s dispatch boardComing
  • The carrier’s driver hours checked before you tenderComing

Not offered

  • Load boards
  • EDI
  • Factoring
  • Consolidated statements across your companies
  • QuickBooks sync
  • Push notifications

FAQ

Questions brokers ask

We run the brokerage and the trucks as two companies. Does that work?

Yes. Each company is its own company here, with its own books, and one sign-in switches between them. When one company’s bank pays for the other, record the line as owed by or to that company; the other company gets a card asking it to add its side, and a report shows what’s owed between them. There are no consolidated statements across companies. Loads run on the board of the company that owns the trucks; handing a load from one of your companies to the other is coming. Two companies, one owner is in testing.

Can I compare my own truck against what a carrier is asking?

Today, price the lane twice in Route Estimate: once with Use my truck, which counts the empty miles from where the truck is and its drivers’ real hours, then with the carrier’s rate entered as the buy rate. The broker view shows the margin both ways. Both are in testing. Choosing per load and sending the tender from the same screen is coming.

Do we have to swap out our ELDs?

Not to start. The brokerage side, quotes, the dispatch board, carrier research and the books, runs without our ELD. Pricing from a truck’s position and its drivers’ hours, and ETAs that count breaks and rest, use our ELD and its hours of service. Our ELD is in field testing and not yet registered with FMCSA, so keep your registered ELD in the truck and run ours alongside it while you try it.

Can my shipper watch the truck?

Send a tracking link from the load. The recipient confirms a six-digit code sent to the email the link went to, and the link lasts 1 or 7 days. They see the automatic ETA, what has happened so far and, while the truck is on the leg into their stop, its position; the page refreshes every 30 seconds. Tracking links are in testing. Update emails, texted links and documents on the link are coming.

Can we broker overflow loads to outside carriers from here?

Not end to end yet. Today you can check a carrier against public FMCSA records with their dates (the last full index is from 2026-09-19), keep a do-not-use list, and send a rate confirmation starter for e-signature on a computer or tablet browser; those last two are in testing. Offering the tender, the carrier accepting it on its own dispatch board and the signed rate con on the load are coming.

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