Free tools
Six things you can use without signing up for anything.
No account, no email address, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. Each one exists because the version already on the internet is thinner than the job needs. Eight reference pages sit underneath them, for the parts that need explaining rather than filling in.
Packing slip
Fill in a packing slip and print it. Ordered against shipped on every line, with the balance and the status worked out.
Two quantity columns rather than one, so a shortage is declared on the document instead of found at put-away. No prices, by design.
Open itPurchase order
Fill in a purchase order on the page and print it. Numbered lines, units of measure, and the totals worked out to the cent.
Carries the fields the template farms leave off: a unit of measure on every line, stable line numbers, and a ship-to held separately from the buyer.
Open itFreight class
Dimensions and a weight give you density in pounds per cubic foot and the NMFC class it points to, with the arithmetic shown.
Uses the thirteen band density scale in force since July 2025, which added classes 55 and 50. Charts that stop at class 60 predate it.
Open itBill of lading
Fill in a standard straight bill of lading on the page and print it. Line items, automatic totals, no account.
Laid out the way carriers expect rather than simplified, and marked non-negotiable as 49 U.S.C. 80103 requires. Most free templates are not.
Open itFreight claim deadlines
Your real dates for a loss or damage claim, from the delivery date, plus a claim letter you can print.
The letter carries all three things 49 CFR 370.3 requires, including the specific sum almost every rejected claim is missing.
Open itCarrier lookup
Search the federal motor carrier register by USDOT number or company name and read the answer in English.
Says what each field means and, more usefully, what it cannot tell you. An active registration is not proof of insurance.
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And the references that go with them
Nothing to fill in on these. They are the explanations the tools assume you already have, written to the same standard: every claim cited to the regulation or standard it comes from, and the citation on the page so you can check it.
Freight class
What a freight class is, why lighter freight costs more to move, and what each band on the current density scale means.
Thirteen of the eighteen classes come off the density scale. The page says which five do not, and what that tells you.
NMFC
The classification itself: who publishes it, the four factors, and the difference between an item number and a class.
Explains the system without republishing it. The item list is NMFTA's licensed publication and no free tool can honestly hand it to you.
Pallet dimensions
The six ISO 6780 footprints, the EPAL Euro pallet specification, and the height that decides what a carrier bills you.
The 48 by 40 is a trade convention rather than a dimensional standard, so every height and weight figure here says it is typical.
Freight bill audit
The seven things usually wrong on a freight bill, and the statutory clocks running on both sides of the argument.
180 days to contest a bill at all, 60 days for the carrier to answer a claim, 18 months to sue. Most pages quote only the last one.
Accessorial charges
Liftgate, inside delivery, detention, redelivery and the rest, grouped by what actually determines the charge.
Facts about your address should be priced in rather than discovered. Events on the day need a record made at the time.
PO number
What a purchase order number is, who issues it, and the nine documents it has to appear on.
A number that never leaves your building identifies nothing at the bay, which is where identification is actually needed.
Three-way match
Running one rather than defining it: tolerances, part deliveries, and who owns each kind of mismatch.
If the receiving record is copied from the packing slip, two of your three documents were written by the supplier.
Cycle counting
How to choose what to count and how often, and why the same items keep coming up wrong.
Most of what a count finds was created at goods-in weeks earlier, by which time the delivery is long gone.
Why these are free and why there is no form
The standard play is to put a template behind an email address. It is the wrong one here, because somebody searching for a bill of lading wants one in the next thirty seconds and a form sends them back to the results page.
Every fact on these pages is checked against the regulation it cites, and the citation is on the page so you can read it yourself. That is the same standard the rest of the site is written to, and it is the whole of what makes any of it worth trusting.