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Glossary

What is spot freight?

Spot freight is the one-off deal: a load that needs a truck this week at whatever the market bears today. Prices swing with capacity, season, and lane balance, which is why spot quoting leans on recent lane history rather than standing rate cards.

In freight operations

Spot requests are where response speed matters most — the shipper is usually asking several forwarders at once.

Freight exchanges are the main spot marketplace in Europe; inbound email RFQs are the other half of the spot flow.

How it relates to 4logist AI

4logist AI is built for SMB freight forwarders who want AI drafts with human approval. Glossary terms below link to agents and connectors when they map directly to product surfaces.

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