Alvys Alternatives for Asset Carriers: 6 Options in 2027

Decide the category before you compare vendors

An Alvys alternative for an asset carrier is a transportation management system (TMS) that runs dispatch, driver settlements and customer invoicing for trucks the company owns. The first decision is whether you need a TMS at all or only a fleet platform for ELDs and maintenance. Alvys's own pricing page shows the split: Samsara Premium ELDs and Fleet Maintenance Premium are add-ons to the TMS, not replacements for it. A telematics-only product still leaves settlements and invoices with nowhere to live, so this guide compares TMS products that claim dispatch, settlement and accounting depth, and treats ELDs as a data feed into that system.

TL;DR: For a carrier with a small fleet that wants prices before a sales call, shortlist Numeo, TruckingOffice and Truckbase. For EDI depth, hybrid carrier-broker operations or enterprise support, keep Alvys, McLeod and Rose Rocket in the running and get written quotes before you decide.

Key Takeaways

• Five of the seven products in this comparison publish a dollar figure on their own pricing pages. Alvys and McLeod do not, and both route buyers to a quote.

• The lowest published monthly tiers belong to tools built for small fleets, so a small carrier should start its search there.

• Only three of the seven products name driver settlements on their pages: Alvys, Truckbase and TruckingOffice.

• Alvys names QuickBooks sync and EDI partner allowances in its published tiers, but its per-load quote makes year-over-year cost comparison harder.

• Alvys says it is month-to-month with cancel anytime, so a parallel trial carries less commitment than a multi-year contract.

Who this is for

This guide is for an owner or operations lead at a small logistics company that owns its trucks, dispatches its own loads, pays drivers through settlements and invoices customers. You are close to choosing, so the question is which replacement you can price and verify before a sales call. Most carriers in the US are small: Carriers with 10 or fewer trucks: 95.5% according to Motor.com (2024), reporting American Trucking Associations data for 2023. That means a small-fleet buyer is the norm in this market, not the exception.

Red flags: most of your freight is brokered and you do not own the trucks, you only need GPS or ELD tracking, or the vendor will not give you API or export access, which leaves you with no integration path and no exit path.

How we evaluated these tools

We weighted six criteria toward what an asset carrier uses every day: dispatch, settlements and accounting. The weights are our judgment for this buyer, not a vendor ranking, and they sum to 100%. Each vendor was checked on its own pricing or product page first. Independent sources were used for context and for the review record on Alvys. We did not find independent price data for the other vendors, so every price in this guide comes from the vendor's own page.

Buyers who ship mostly brokered freight should raise the EDI row. Buyers with one or two trucks should raise the price row.

Feature matrix: what each vendor says it does

This matrix records what each vendor's own pages say. "Not stated" means the page did not say, not that the product lacks the feature, so confirm every gap on a demo.

Three gaps matter most. Settlements are missing from four of the seven pages. QuickBooks is named by Alvys, Truckbase and, for LoadMaster, McLeod. EDI is not named by TruckingOffice, Numeo or Truckpedia, so a carrier with EDI customers should treat those three as unconfirmed until a demo proves otherwise.

Pricing: published tiers, quotes and the 10-truck math

Pricing checked October 25, 2026. Five of the seven products publish a dollar figure on their own pricing pages, while Alvys and McLeod route buyers to a quote.

Alvys publishes no dollar figure. Its pricing page describes the Foundations tier as "Quoted based on volume of loads" and offers a 14-day free trial, with onboarding included at no extra cost, according to Alvys.

Starting price: $2,080 per month according to Rose Rocket (2026). That is the Full Service Platform, which includes unlimited users with no per-seat fees and a 90-day go-live. The Enterprise tier is custom priced and adds SSO and custom service levels.

Minimum price: $290 a month according to Truckbase (2026), billed annually. Truckbase lists per-truck, per-driver, per-load, flat annual and custom billing, but it does not publish the per-unit rates, so the page alone cannot tell you which model is cheaper for your fleet.

Lowest listed plan: $25 a month according to TruckingOffice (2026) for one or two trucks on Basic. Basic is $55 for three to seven trucks and $90 for eight or more, while Pro runs $35, $75 and $130 across the same bands. The Pro tier has no broker plan, and the 30-day free trial needs no credit card.

On Numeo, the Basic tier is $99 a month and the Pro tier is $149 a month, each covering up to 10 trucks, with overage beyond the cap and custom Enterprise pricing for larger fleets, according to Numeo (2026).

The Professional tier on Truckpedia is $299 a month on monthly billing or $239.99 a month billed annually, covering up to 10 trucks, and each extra truck adds $30 a month, according to Truckpedia (2026).

McLeod publishes no prices, plan names or billing units, so its cost can only come from a quote.

The table applies the published figures to a 10-truck fleet for comparison. It is arithmetic on the vendor figures above, not a quote. On TruckingOffice, 10 trucks falls in the Fleet band, and the mileage add-on adds $25 to either tier.

Vendor profiles: fit, limits and setup

Each profile separates what the vendor publishes from our read of it.

Alvys: the baseline you are leaving

Vendor pages say: Foundations includes dispatch, settlement, invoicing, the driver mobile app, AI load creation and QuickBooks two-way sync. Growth adds the Public API and Driver Chat, and Scale adds unlimited subsidiaries and a dedicated success manager. Samsara Premium ELDs are a paid add-on.

Overall rating: 5 out of 5 from 5 reviews according to SoftwareConnect (2025). The same review says Alvys is not recommended for small carriers with one truck and low load volumes, which is the reason to read the rating as a small sample rather than a verdict.

Our read: Alvys fits hybrid operators who want carrier and broker work in one system and can accept a quoted per-load model. The main limitation is cost predictability, since you cannot compare a per-load quote against a published tier until you have a written figure. Implementation is free and the contract is month-to-month. Its API documentation lists 16 load statuses, from In Review to Cancelled, which is a useful checklist for mapping your own workflow according to Alvys (current docs).

McLeod: the enterprise option that starts with a sales call

Vendor pages say: McLeod's pricing page publishes no prices, plan names or billing units, and it names both asset carriers and brokers as target customers, according to McLeod. Its site lists modules for dispatch and load execution, carrier management, native EDI management, and accounting and finance.

Our read: McLeod suits dispatch-heavy operations with EDI requirements and budget for a demo-led implementation. You cannot compare its cost until a demo, and its contact form asks for truck and user counts up front. Ask for the implementation timeline and data-migration scope in writing before you commit to a review.

Rose Rocket: one platform with a monthly floor

Vendor pages say: the plans are titled for brokers and carriers, with unlimited users, AI agents with no per-use fees, compliance monitoring for hours of service, DOT and FMCSA rules, 40+ integrations, SOC 2 Type II certification and a 90-day go-live.

Our read: Rose Rocket fits operations that want orders, dispatch, invoicing, compliance and documents in one place and can carry a monthly floor well above the per-truck tools. The pricing page does not publish a trial and does not name driver settlements. The 90-day implementation means a longer parallel run than a small-fleet tool would require.

Truckbase: built for growing asset carriers

Vendor pages say: Truckbase describes itself as a TMS for growing asset-based carriers. It offers an AI-powered load importer, driver BOL scanning from phones, driver settlements with stop pays, reimbursements and revision tracking, QuickBooks sync, EDI, and a customer portal. Factoring, routing and fuel-card integrations are listed as coming soon, as is a cross-border use case.

Our read: Truckbase fits asset carriers that want dispatch, settlements, QuickBooks and EDI in one tool and can choose a billing model. The limits are the unpublished per-unit rates, the unclear status of ELD, EDI and QuickBooks as base or add-on items, and no cross-border support yet. Implementation includes free live virtual onboarding, according to its pricing page.

TruckingOffice: a bundled ELD for owner-operators and small fleets

Vendor pages say: the Basic plan is for full-truckload hauling only, while Pro adds less-than-truckload work and a Load Planner workflow. Billing is monthly with no contract, there are no per-user fees, and payment is by Visa, Mastercard or American Express only, with no purchase orders or invoicing.

Our read: TruckingOffice fits owner-operators and small fleets that want ELD, dispatch, settlements and expense tracking bundled at a low monthly figure. The pages we checked do not mention QuickBooks or EDI, Pro has no broker tier, and card-only payment may not suit a finance team. Run the 30-day trial with a handful of real loads before you decide.

Numeo: a flat per-tier TMS for up to 10 trucks

Vendor pages say: Numeo One TMS is an AI-native TMS for growing carriers, covering dispatch, accounting, fleet and safety. It can replace a legacy system or run alongside one through account-level sync, and it names DITAT and QuickManage as sync examples.

Our read: Numeo fits carriers up to 10 trucks that want a flat tier and a run-alongside path during migration. Its pages do not state driver settlements, EDI, ELD integrations or a driver app for One TMS, and its pricing page lists no tier features. Confirm the sync scope with your current system before any cutover.

Truckpedia: a fleet bundle with annual billing

Vendor pages say: the Professional tier covers dispatch management, accounting, fleet and driver management, reporting, dispatcher and driver apps, automation, and integrations with ELDs, factoring and fuel cards. The annual plan adds a broker feature, and Enterprise is custom for fleets above 10 trucks.

Our read: Truckpedia fits fleets up to 10 trucks that want factoring and fuel-card integrations in the same bundle. No trial terms are published, its page title says "as low as $239/Month" while the plan lists $239.99, so ask which figure applies, and the page does not name settlements.

We left AscendTMS and Trimble out of the price table because we could not load their vendor pricing pages during this review. If either is on your shortlist, get a written quote before you compare. For a head-to-head between AscendTMS and McLeod, see our AscendTMS vs McLeod comparison.

Who should choose which vendor

Where a custom workflow fits beside your TMS

A common alternative to switching is to stitch the workflow together in Zapier, Make or n8n. Those tools can keep run histories, retries, error branches and audit evidence when they are configured that way. The buyer still has to design and own observability, idempotency (so a retry does not send a second invoice), escalation paths, access controls and maintenance whenever the TMS API changes.

US Tech Automations would configure a proposed workflow on top of your TMS, not replace it. The trigger is a load moving to Delivered with DeliveredAt populated. The prerequisite is API access to the loads endpoint, which Alvys places in its Growth tier and above. The action reads the load, checks its file for a proof of delivery, and adds any gap to a queue. The output is a review list for the billing clerk, and the clerk approves each invoice hold, since the workflow never sends an invoice on its own.

US Tech Automations would configure a second proposed workflow for payments. The trigger is a Payments[].PaidAt value appearing on a load. The action compares the recorded payment with the open invoice amount. The output is a reconciliation queue for the accountant when the two differ. Alvys's Foundations tier already syncs with QuickBooks, so this workflow only earns its place if your accountant needs an exception list the sync does not produce.

Illustrative case, not a customer: a 10-truck carrier books 240 loads a month. If 5% of them, or 12 loads, need a missing proof of delivery chased, and each chase takes 10 minutes, the team spends 120 minutes, or 2 hours, a month on that alone. A proposed workflow that reads each load through the Alvys API, checks Payments[].PaidAt and the delivery document, and queues only the 12 loads with a gap would cut the manual review list from 240 loads to 12. Whether that saving beats the cost of building and maintaining the workflow depends on your own counts, so the review queue, not the automation, makes the final call.

When NOT to use US Tech Automations: skip a custom workflow if your chosen TMS already flags missing documents and unpaid loads in its own exception queue, if you run one or two trucks where a bundled tool with a published monthly price covers dispatch and billing, or if your system exposes no API or export, so there is nothing to trigger from. In those cases a simpler tool or a weekly export review does the job.

Decision checklist and common mistakes

Before you sign, work through these checks:

• Get a written quote from each quote-based vendor, with the billing basis stated in dollars.

• Export one month of loads, settlements and invoices from your current system so you have a baseline.

• Rerun three past pay periods through each finalist's settlement process and compare the driver totals.

• Confirm which integrations are in the base price and which are add-ons.

• Ask who owns the migration plan and the cutover date.

Common mistakes to avoid:

• Comparing a per-truck price with a per-load quote without converting both to your own load count.

• Treating "not stated" on a vendor page as "not supported," without confirming on a demo.

• Buying a telematics platform and expecting it to run settlements and invoices.

• Choosing an enterprise tool for a fleet that a published tier already covers.

Frequently asked questions

Is Alvys priced publicly?

No. Alvys's pricing page quotes per load and publishes no dollar figure, so you need a written quote to compare it with the others.

Which option has the lowest published monthly figure for 10 trucks?

TruckingOffice's Basic tier for eight or more trucks has the lowest figure in the cost table, before its optional mileage add-on.

Does a small carrier need an ELD from its TMS vendor?

No, but it helps to know which system owns the data. Alvys sells Samsara ELDs as an add-on, TruckingOffice includes its own ELD, and Truckpedia lists ELD integrations on its pricing page.

Can Zapier, Make or n8n replace a TMS?

No. They can move data and run checks between tools, but dispatch, settlements and compliance records need a system of record, and you must own the monitoring and access controls around any workflow.

How should I plan a switch without losing history?

Ask each vendor in writing what it will import, from which dates and in what format, and get a sample export from your current system before you sign. The vendor pages we checked do not publish migration scope, so that answer has to come from the vendor.

Is this guide useful if most of my freight is brokered?

Only partly. Most profiles here assume you own trucks, so if most of your freight is brokered, Alvys and Rose Rocket, which both serve brokers, deserve the first look.

Before you switch off Alvys

Alvys's own pages describe a month-to-month contract that you can cancel at any time, so a parallel trial carries less risk than a multi-year commitment would. Shortlist two options: one for published prices and one for the depth you need, then collect written quotes from the rest. Run each finalist for one real pay period with your own loads before you move anything, and keep Alvys active until settlements and invoices match. For a worked configuration against your own exports, see how US Tech Automations configures this.