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10 August 2026

FleetWorks and SONAR partner to put live market intelligence inside the agentic marketplace

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Source reporting: FreightWaves

FleetWorks and SONAR partner to put live market intelligence inside the agentic marketplace

New integration embeds SONAR rates and coverage difficulty across FleetWorks’ AI phone, email, and SMS workflows to help brokers and carriers book with more confidence. San Francisco, CA August 13, 2026 — FleetWorks, the AI marketplace that matches brokers and carriers at scale, and SONAR, the leading freight market data and supply chain intelligence tool, today announced a partnership that brings SONAR’s TRAC rates and coverage scores into FleetWorks’ AI agents platform-wide. The integration is live now for any carrier using the FleetWorks platform as well as brokers who are both FleetWorks and SONAR customers, giving broker teams verified market context at the moment they quote, negotiate, and cover freight. Freight moves faster than the systems most brokerages use to book it. A carrier sales rep negotiating a load typically has the conversation in one place and the market data in another — a SONAR dashboard, a rate tool, an account manager or pricing analyst on Teams.

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