How to counter a broker offer you paste into ChatGPT or Claude

How to get a counter and a walk-away number from Freigent for a pasted broker offer, with no inbox connected, worked from your own numbers.

No inbox needed (the negotiate-load skill, pasted path). Give the offer, the miles and your minimum or your cost per mile. The answers below are real, from a test account; the rates are example numbers.

Ask

A broker offered $1,800 for 450 loaded miles, 40 deadhead. My minimum is $1,950. What do I counter?

What you get

Recommendation: counter at $2,175. Walk-away: $1,950, your minimum. Your floor is $1,950 ($4.33 per loaded mile), from your minimum rate. The offer of $1,800 is below your floor. Counter at $2,175 ($4.83 per loaded mile). How the counter was set: your minimum plus 12%, Freigent's default when no target rate is on file ($2,184), rounded to the nearest $25. No market rate was provided.

The assistant then drafts a short reply in your voice for you to send from your own email.

With a cost per mile instead of a minimum ("my cost is $2.10 a mile"), Freigent works the floor from your cost and tells you what you clear:

At $1,800 you clear $771 after cost on 490 miles (450 loaded, 40 empty).

The next round

When the broker comes back ("they came back at $1,875; I had asked $2,150"):

They came up $75; match their move, no lower than your floor. Recommendation: counter at $2,075.

What it will not do, and what it says

  • Guess missing numbers. Without the miles:

    Error: loaded_miles is required and must be greater than 0.

  • Quote a market rate. Every answer says it was worked from your numbers only.
  • Go below your floor, even when an earlier counter was lower:

    Their $1,875 is below your current floor of $1,950; a historic counter cannot override it.

Next

Counter an offer from your inbox, where Freigent can also send the reply for you.

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