The new tracking service costs $1 per load. Smartphone tracking through the CarrierLink app is free for brokers up to 2,500 loads per month. The real-time location tracking system gives shippers, brokers and third-party logistics providers full visibility over all of their freight loads, the vendor said. FourKites' geo-fencing detects arrivals and departures to notify users by email, in the FourKites dashboard, or through their transportation-management system software. Drivers can also snap photos of documents and share them. The CarrierLink app drivers to turn off tracking with the touch of a button.

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