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Rose Rocket
Transportation management system built around customer portals and an open API for carriers
As of 31 August 2026, Rose Rocket's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Rose Rocket is a hosted TMS whose selling point is what your customers see: a branded portal with self serve tracking and documents. Softwr lists it under Logistics. Rose Rocket is made by Rose Rocket Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, API.
Overview
What Rose Rocket does
Rose Rocket is a Toronto company founded in 2015 that sells a cloud transportation management system to trucking carriers, with particular strength in less than truckload and final mile operations. It covers order entry, dispatch, planning, driver mobile capture, billing and reporting, and it exposes most of the system through a documented public API. The distinguishing element is the customer facing layer. Most carrier TMS products are inward facing, and a shipper wanting a status update calls or emails the carrier customer service desk. Rose Rocket ships a branded shipper portal as a core part of the product, so a carrier can give its customers self serve quoting, order submission, tracking and document retrieval without building a website. For a regional LTL carrier competing against national networks that already offer this, it removes a concrete objection during a bid, and that is the commercial argument the vendor makes and the one that usually lands. Buyers are small and mid size North American carriers, typically from a few dozen to a few hundred power units, often in LTL, courier or final mile where shipment counts are high and the shipper expects visibility. The trade off is the back office. Settlements, driver pay complexity and financial controls are lighter than McLeod or the older asset carrier systems, and a carrier with layered owner operator pay schemes will find itself doing more outside the system than it expected.
What people use it for
- A regional LTL carrier losing bids to national networks because it cannot offer shipper self serve tracking
- A final mile or courier operation that needs manifesting and scanning rather than long haul truckload dispatch
- A carrier with an in house development team that wants to build custom workflows against a documented API
- A growing fleet moving off a legacy on premises system and unwilling to run its own database servers
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- Settlement and driver pay handling is lighter than the established asset carrier systems, so a fleet with layered owner operator pay schemes ends up maintaining calculations in spreadsheets alongside the system.
- It is not an accounting package, so the general ledger stays in QuickBooks, Xero or similar and month end still involves a reconciliation between two systems.
- The strength is North American LTL and final mile, and truckload only carriers get less out of the portal and manifesting features they are paying for.
- Pricing is not published and is structured per user, so a carrier with many part time dispatchers, terminal clerks and after hours staff pays for seats that are used a few hours a week.
- The customer portal only helps if your shippers use it, and a carrier serving small shippers that still email pickup requests will not see the differentiation it bought.
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Pricing
What Rose Rocket costs
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Rose Rocket
On request
- Transportation management and dispatch
- Branded customer portal
- Driver mobile application and API access
Capabilities
Features
Branded shipper portal
Customer self serve quoting, order entry, tracking and document download
LTL and final mile planning
Multi stop manifesting, terminal handling and route building
Driver mobile app
Pickup and delivery scanning, signature capture and status updates
Open API
Documented public API covering most objects for custom integration
Billing and rating
Customer specific rate tables, accessorials and invoice generation
Dispatch board
Load assignment with driver, equipment and terminal visibility
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Questions people ask
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Is it built for truckload or LTL?
LTL, courier and final mile are where the planning and portal features earn their cost. Truckload works but uses less of the product.
Does it handle driver settlements?
Basic pay handling is present. Complex owner operator schemes usually need work outside the system.
Is there a public API?
Yes, and it is one of the reasons carriers with development capacity choose it.
Where is the company based?
Toronto, Canada, with customers across Canada and the United States.
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