AI backhaul matching is software that continuously compares a fleet's available truck capacity against live freight demand and surfaces only the loads that actually fit. Augie, the AI teammate from Augment, reads your capacity however you already track it — a live sheet or a CSV upload — and checks every empty truck against loads from the brokerage partners you already haul for. Equipment type, pickup and drop-off radius, pickup timing, and your rate floor all have to clear before anything surfaces. Qualifying loads are ranked by rate, then by deadhead. At Augment this workflow is called Capacity & Demand Matching.

A load board is a public listing you post capacity to and then monitor. AI backhaul matching runs against a private demand pool instead: only the brokerage partners you select, and that confirm your active carrier status. Nothing is posted publicly, so your best capacity never enters an auto-bid pool — which is why experienced dispatchers keep it off boards to begin with. Augie checks that private pool continuously rather than waiting for a broker to call you.

Only where the brokerage on the other side exposes a booking API, and only after your dispatcher approves it. In every other case Augie emails the matching brokerage's carrier rep with full load and rate detail, copies your dispatcher, and pushes the same detail to your dispatcher in chat. Your dispatcher decides, negotiates anything unusual, and books manually. Augie does not commit a truck on its own, and it does not write back to your capacity source.

No. It removes the hunting, not the judgment. Dispatchers still choose which load to take, negotiate anything unusual, and own the brokerage relationship. What changes is that they stop checking relationships one at a time to find out what's available — every qualifying load across every connected brokerage arrives ranked, so they work replies instead of leads.

Exact-match criteria have to clear first — equipment type, pickup/drop-off radius, pickup timing, and your floor rate. When more than one load qualifies for a truck, Augie ranks by rate, then deadhead-to-origin, then deadhead-to-destination.

Not by default. Augie emails the matching brokerage rep and notifies your dispatcher with full details — your dispatcher decides and books manually. Fully automatic booking exists only where a brokerage exposes a booking API for it.

It gets logged, not acted on. Augie won't surface or send outreach on anything below your configured floor, even if every other criterion matches.

Only the brokerage relationships you've activated — partners who've confirmed your active carrier status. It's not a generic load pool or public board.