Comparison
OSOWloads vs oversize.io
Two products to quote oversize and overweight loads. Here is how they differ.
- Built by an active OS/OW brokerage owner
- 2026 DOT data, sourced from 400+ official files
- Dedicated line item Bid Builder
- Fully customizable customer-facing quote PDFs
- Per-state road type override
- Long track record in the industry
- Larger customer base, including major asset carriers
- Quote, lane analytics, and pricing tools
- Axle weight and equipment configuration tools
- RFQ and bid management for shippers
Feature-by-feature comparison
Where the products genuinely differ. Where oversize.io's behavior is not publicly documented, we say so rather than guess.
| Capability | OSOWloads | oversize.io |
|---|---|---|
| 1st tier | $19/mo · 15 calcs · $1.27 each | $59/mo · 25 calcs · $2.36 each |
| 2nd tier | $59/mo · 50 calcs · $1.18 each | $124/mo · 60 calcs · $2.07 each |
| 3rd tier | $119/mo · 100 calcs · $1.19 each | $188/mo · 100 calcs · $1.88 each |
| Annual discount | 10-month model (pay 10, get 12) · ~17% off | 20% off when paid annually |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial · cancel before day 7 to avoid charge | Not advertised |
| Bid building | Dedicated sidebar. Truck $/mi, escort $/mi, police, survey, OD premium, margin %. | Quote tools and lane analytics. Workflow specifics not documented publicly. |
| Escort smoothing logic | Three modes for how escort miles roll across state borders: raw, conservative, full-carry. | Not advertised |
| Per-state road type override | Switch road classification state-by-state. Some states have 3-5 tiers (CA, ID, CO and others). Pre-computed, no re-run. | Toggle entire route interstate or non-interstate |
| Interstate preference slider | Drag the slider to bias the route toward more interstate or more non-interstate miles. | Not advertised |
| Waypoint routing | Force the route through a specific stop or checkpoint. Useful for known route issues, construction avoidance, or state DOT route policy. | Not advertised |
| Customer-facing quote PDF | Fully customizable. Toggle every line item as a pass-through or hide it. Professional PDF, ready to send. | Quote-sending exists. Configuration depth not public. |
| Broker tooling | GVW and axle prediction, margin calc, rule-based OD premium logic. | Margin, else not documented publicly. |
| Data sourcing | 400+ official state DOT files and admin code. Sourced 2026. | Last-updated date not publicly documented. |
| Overweight permit fee modeling | 19 distinct fee models and tables built to match how each state actually calculates overweight permits. | Distinct models, specifics not advertised |
| Free public resources | One clickable US map. Legal heights, 1st Escort Width, DOT contacts, portal links, all aggregated. | Per-state regulation pages, navigated one state at a time. |
| Built by | Owner of an active OS/OW brokerage. Solo-developed. Direct line to fixes. | Founded by a former dispatcher and broker. |
oversize.io column reflects what is publicly visible on their site and published interviews as of the page's last update. If anything here is out of date, email us and we will fix it.
What OSOWloads does better
Six things we built on purpose because we hit the problem ourselves.
Bid Builder
A sidebar tied to the calc result. Truck $/mi, escort $/mi, police, survey, OD premium, margin %. Settings persist between calcs. The output is a number you can send to a shipper in a professional PDF, configured with whatever pass-throughs (or none) as you please.
Smart escort smoothing
Three modes for how escort miles roll across state lines: raw per-state, conservative, and full-carry. Escorts often have to stay with the load through a state that requires zero, and the real cost includes day rates and hotels on top of the per-mile. The modes account for that.
Per-state road tier override
Switch a single state's road classification without re-running the calc. Some states have one tier. CA, ID, CO and others have three to five. You might have a PU/DEL 50 miles from interstate on 2-lane - so why model the whole route as interstate or non-interstate?
Interstate preference slider
Drag the slider to bias the route fetch toward more interstate or more non-interstate miles.
Waypoint routing
Force the route through a specific stop or checkpoint. Useful for known route issues, construction avoidance, or state DOT route policy.
Built by a brokerage owner
The product is built by someone who owns and runs an active open deck & OS/OW brokerage. Per-state rules trace back to DOT permit manuals, admin code, and statutes — 400+ source files, 19 distinct overweight fee models built to match each state's actual structure. Bugs get fixed by the person who built the thing.
Why this exists
Built to spare you the mistakes I made.
The escort smoothing logic, the road tier overrides, the per-state OW fee models, the waypoint routing aren't features for show. Each one is there because something on a real load went wrong and there was no tool to catch it.
The point of the product is to cut the learning curve. You should not have to lose money on the same loads I did to figure out how this work is actually priced.
What oversize.io does better
They're the Status Quo
- Dedicated Axle calculator (our's is in the pipeline - probably released by the time you're reading this)
- Frost Laws sections
- Longer track record, founded by a former heavy-haul dispatcher and broker.
- Larger customer base, including major asset carriers.
- RFQ workflow tools for OS/OW quoting teams, including manager review of outbound quotes and rep performance tracking.
- Canada coverage for cross-border OS/OW work.
However
At every published tier, oversize.io costs more per calc. The Bid Builder is the bigger gap though. It is a repeatable flow that walks you from calc to quote without a spreadsheet, builds visibility into every cost component along the way, and shows the state-by-state overweight pricing model in a dedicated panel so you can see why a quote came out the way it did. Add the escort smoothing logic, rule-based OD premiums, GVW prediction, per-state road tier override, interstate preference slider, waypoint routing, and that is the gap OSOWloads is built to fill.
Same price, twice the calcs.
Both products have a $59/mo plan. Here is what each gets you.
- Calcs included
- 50/mo
- Per-calc rate
- $1.18
- Free trial
- 7 days
- Setup fee
- $0
- Contract
- None · cancel anytime
- Year 1 total
- $708
- Calcs included
- 25/mo
- Per-calc rate
- $2.36
- Free trial
- Not advertised
- Setup fee
- Not listed
- Contract
- Month-to-month or annual
- Year 1 total
- $708
Comparison uses each company's $59/mo published plan. OSOWloads also offers a $19/mo Solo tier with 15 calcs — see the full comparison table above.
One map, not 48 pages
Both products publish free OS/OW reference info. The difference is how you get to it. Theirs is a separate page per state. Ours is one clickable US map plus a few aggregated tools.
Run a real calc.
Free for 7 days.
No demo call. Sign up, paste a route, see if the number agrees with what you would have built by hand. Cancel before day 7 if it doesn't.
Last updated: May 2026