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For small hazmat carriers

A TMS built by a hazmat carrier, for hazmat carriers.

You run placarded freight with a handful of people. The shipper expects a 990 inside an hour, a driver who answers at 3 a.m., and paperwork that is right the first time. FlowLine was written for exactly that desk, by the person who ran one.

The problem

Hazmat shippers grade you on the things a general-purpose TMS does not watch: response time on the tender, tracking on every load, and clean shipping papers. Miss them and you slide down the routing guide until the freight stops arriving. You rarely get told why.

What FlowLine does about it

Every tender gets an owner and a clockThe 204 lands in the queue with the shipper's window counting down. One tap sends the 990. At the deadline it declines on its own.
Quiet loads are flagged before they are lateCheck-call windows of 60 minutes, 2 hours and 4 hours turn a load yellow, then red. Autotrack percentage is on your screen before it is on the broker's.
Paperwork is checked before billingRate confirmation, BOL, POD and invoice must agree. The check names what is wrong.
Prices come from real hazmat loadsMedian rate by class and distance from 11 years of LIVE's own load records.

The proof

LIVE ran hazmat on this playbook for 15 years and moved more than 16,000 hazmat loads, passing 6,000 a year at its peak.

Questions

What is the biggest risk for a small hazmat carrier?

Falling down a shipper's routing guide without knowing it. Late 990s, dropped check calls and mismatched paperwork each lower your score, and the loads quietly go to the next carrier.

Does FlowLine handle Class 3 and Class 8?

Yes. The rate pages cover Class 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, mixed hazmat and dry van, and the compliance module covers the DOT hazmat classes, bill of lading requirements and carrier vetting.

Walk me through your last missed tender. Twenty minutes. No pitch deck.

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Written by Ian Brown, owner and CEO of LIVE Global Logistics, a hazmat carrier and brokerage in Dallas, Texas, and founder of FlowLine TMS. 15 years running hazmat freight as an agent; the numbers on this page come from LIVE's own load records, 2015 to 2026.Updated 2026-10-27 · About Ian and how the data is built