A courier quote in five steps, not five phone calls.
BMV runs couriers, trucking and airport freight out of Tinton Falls and Manchester, New Jersey, dispatching around the clock across New Jersey, New York, Long Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, plus EWR, JFK, LGA and PHL. The site prices a run the way dispatch would, on the page.
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Live demo
Price a run, the way dispatch would.
Real site. Click around.
This is the real quote tool, live inside this page. Pick a route and a shipment, and the speed step draws the five service levels as one curve, marks the best fit and the runner-up, and says in a line why.
The problem
Freight gets quoted by whoever answers.
A courier quote is a phone call to dispatch, a few questions about the pickup and the drop, and a number some minutes later. It works, and it costs BMV a person every single time, including at two in the morning when the line is still open.
The customers placing those calls are usually comparing three carriers at once. Whoever comes back first, with a number, tends to get the run.
What we built
The dispatcher’s arithmetic, on the page.
- A five-step quote tool: route, shipment, speed, timing, contact
- Nine service zones including EWR, JFK, LGA and PHL, with a live approximate mileage note
- A vehicle recommendation that walks from car to cargo van to Sprinter to box truck as the load grows
- A speed step that draws all five service levels as one curve and names the best fit and the runner-up
- Pricing from a nine by nine zone mileage matrix, per-vehicle base and per-mile rates, and named surcharges
- Ranges rounded to the nearest $5, built from one configuration object and covered by forty-two tests
- A running summary announced to screen readers, and answers kept if the tab is closed mid-quote
- Published fees, click-to-call on every number, and both dispatch locations on the homepage
Worth noticing
A price nobody has to argue with.
The quote is not a guess in a nice font. Distance comes from a nine by nine matrix of zone-to-zone mileage, multiplied by a base and a per-mile rate for whichever vehicle the load actually needs, then adjusted by the things that genuinely cost money: $12 a stop, $45 for a lift gate, $25 for a rush-hour window, $15 for an airport. What the customer sees is a range, about ten percent either side, rounded to the nearest $5.
All of it lives in one configuration object with forty-two tests around it, so a rate change is one edit rather than a hunt through the code. And the rush-hour windows are flagged in the picker before they are charged, which is the whole difference between a surcharge and a surprise.
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