Alvys Alternative: Per-Truck TMS, Not Per-Load

Why carriers look for an Alvys alternative

Two groups land on this page. The first is comparing TMS options and wants to know what Alvys costs before sitting through a demo. The second didn’t go looking at all: on September 23, 2026, Optym announced that Alvys is acquiring the LoadOps customer base, and LoadOps accounts are being migrated to Alvys one at a time (FreightWaves). If that’s you, start with our LoadOps alternative page — we import your LoadOps load history for free.

Either way, the questions are the same:

What will the bill actually be? Alvys publishes a starting rate per load, not tiers. Alvys’s own LoadOps migration page warns that if you hold your LoadOps volume against its pricing you’ll get a “scary number that isn’t real,” because a specialist has to translate your true load count first. That may well be fair — but you can’t model it yourself before the call.
What happens when freight gets busy? Per-load pricing rises with volume. A short-haul or dedicated operation running many small loads per truck pays more than a long-haul fleet running the same revenue over fewer loads.
Am I buying a brokerage product I don’t need? Alvys sells to carriers, brokers and hybrids. If you only run your own trucks, a lot of that surface area isn’t yours.
Can I try it first? Alvys is demo-and-quote. There’s no self-serve trial advertised.

Per load vs per truck: the same fleet, two bills

Take a 10-truck carrier. Truxello is $164 a month at that size, whatever you haul. Alvys depends entirely on load count, so here it is at the advertised $3.95 starting rate:

Loads per month	At $3.95/load	Truxello, 10 trucks
40 (one load per truck per week)	$158	$164
80 (two per truck per week)	$316	$164
120 (three per truck per week)	$474	$164
200 (short-haul, five per truck per week)	$790	$164

The left column is arithmetic on Alvys’s own advertised starting rate, not a quote. Alvys does not publish tiers, counts loads its own way, and your quote may be lower or higher. Get it in writing. Truxello’s column is our published list price, which you can check on our pricing section.

The point isn’t that one number is always smaller. It’s which way the bill moves when business is good. Per load, growth costs more. Per truck, the only thing that changes your bill is buying another truck — and loads, dispatchers, accountants and admins are unlimited on every Truxello plan.

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Truxello vs Alvys at a glance

	Truxello	Alvys
Pricing model	Per truck, unlimited loads and office users	Per load, unlimited users and divisions
Published price	Full list: $29 first truck, $15 trucks 2–10, $12 after	“Starts at $3.95/load”, custom quote
10-truck fleet	$164/mo, any load count	Depends on monthly loads
How you start	14-day trial, no card, self-serve	Demo and quote
Time to go live	Same day	Advertises under 3 weeks, free onboarding
Data migration	Free LoadOps load-history import; CSV for customers and drivers	Free migration, LoadOps schema already mapped, documents included
Built for	Asset-based carriers running their own trucks	Carriers, brokers and hybrid asset-based brokerages
AI	AI rate confirmation parsing	Alvys Intelligence document parsing, Insights Q&A, Foundry agent builder
Driver mobile app	Yes, free, English & Spanish	Yes
Driver & owner-operator settlements	Company drivers, owner-operators, tractor owners, dispatchers, office staff	Yes
IFTA & fuel cards	IFTA plus EFS, WEX, Comdata import	IFTA reporting
Integrations	Truckstop; Samsara, Motive, Geotab; QuickBooks Online two-way; Gmail & Outlook	120+ at no extra cost, including DAT, Truckstop, QuickBooks, RMIS, Highway
EDI load tendering	No	Yes, built in
Broker tracking networks	Shareable tracking links, no login for the broker	MacroPoint, FourKites, plus a branded tracking URL
Brokerage operations	No, carrier only	Yes, carrier and broker in one login
Public API	Not yet	Yes
Track record	Newer, far fewer reviews	Founded 2020, claims 2,000+ companies, $77M raised

Alvys details are from alvys.com (pricing-info, tms-for-carriers, load-marketplace and the LoadOps migration page), the September 23, 2026 Optym and Alvys announcements, and FreightWaves coverage, read October 2026. Alvys’s review scores and company facts come from its own pages and public review sites. If anything here is out of date, email support@truxello.com and we’ll correct it.

Where Alvys is the better choice

We’d rather you land on the right system than switch twice. Alvys is very likely the better fit if:

You broker freight as well as haul it. Alvys runs carrier and broker operations in one login. Truxello is built for carriers running their own trucks and does not do brokerage.
Shippers tender you loads over EDI. Alvys has EDI built in. We don’t have EDI at all.
Your brokers require MacroPoint or FourKites tracking, or you need DAT, RMIS or Highway inside the TMS.
You want a vendor to lift and shift everything, including documents and rate history, with onboarding calls and training included.
You need a public API to push data into your own systems.
You’re a bigger operation buying on track record. Alvys has been at this since 2020 with thousands of companies. We’re newer with far fewer reviews, and that’s a real difference.

Where Truxello is the better choice

You want a bill you can predict. Per truck, published, unlimited loads. Busy months don’t cost more.
You run a lot of loads per truck. Short-haul, regional and dedicated operations are exactly where per-load pricing hurts.
You want to try it before talking to anyone. Sign up, upload a rate con, dispatch a real load today. No card, no call.
You only run your own trucks. Every screen is built for carrier work: dispatch, rate cons, the driver app, invoicing, settlements, IFTA.
Settlements are the hard part of your week. Company drivers, owner-operators and tractor owners, with per-mile, percentage, flat, per-stop and detention pay, recurring deductions, advances and opening year-to-date figures.
You’re a small office. Dispatchers, accountants and admins are unlimited and free on every plan.

Coming from LoadOps?

You’re changing TMS either way, so this is the one moment you get to choose. We read the LoadOps All Loads export the way LoadOps lays it out and bring over:

Your load numbers. LoadOps load 2880 comes across as 2880, and your next Truxello load is 2881.
Multi-stop routes, with every pickup and drop in order.
Customers, rates and accessorials, plus invoice and paid status, so your open receivables are right on day one.
Settlement statements in the LoadOps layout — we rebuilt ours against a real LoadOps Tractor Owner Settlement, so your drivers and tractor owners can still read them.

The migration is free: upload the export yourself under Settings › Import data, or email it to us and we’ll do it with you. Documents and past pay statements don’t come across, so keep your LoadOps export for those records. Full detail is on the LoadOps alternative page.

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Already on Alvys, or about to sign?

If per-load pricing is why you’re here, run your own numbers in the calculator above first. A month with more loads costs more on Alvys; on Truxello it costs the same.

Try it alongside Alvys. The 14-day trial needs no card, so you can dispatch a few real loads in Truxello before you cancel or sign anything.
Bring your data. Export your drivers, trucks, customers and loads to CSV or Excel and import them under Settings › Import data, which matches the columns for you. Or email the files and we’ll do the import with you, free.
Check your notice period. Read your Alvys agreement for its term and cancellation notice before you switch, so you aren’t paying for both longer than you need to.

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Trying both, step by step

Start the trialNo card. 14 days of every feature, with room for 10 trucks and 10 drivers.
Add trucks & driversEnter opening year-to-date pay so settlement totals are right from week one.
Run this week’s real loadsUpload the rate cons, dispatch them, send an invoice, run one settlement. That’s the honest test.
Get the Alvys quote tooAsk for your translated load count and the per-load rate in writing, then compare it against $29/$15/$12 per truck.

Questions about Alvys and Truxello

How much does Alvys cost?

Alvys is priced on the loads you move each month. Its pricing page advertises a starting rate of $3.95 per load with unlimited users and business divisions included, and asks you to request a custom quote. Alvys does not publish tiers, so the figure you pay is set on a call. Truxello publishes its full price list: $29/month for the first truck, $15/month for each truck from 2 to 10, and $12/month for each truck after 10, with unlimited loads and unlimited office users.

What is the difference between per-load and per-truck TMS pricing?

Per-load pricing moves with your freight: a busy month, a short-haul lane, or a dedicated run with many small loads all raise the bill, and splitting a trip into multiple loads can cost more. Per-truck pricing is fixed by fleet size, so running more loads with the same trucks does not change what you pay. Truxello charges per truck with unlimited loads; Alvys charges per load with unlimited users.

Does Alvys have a free trial?

Alvys does not advertise a self-serve free trial. You book a demo and get a quote, and it advertises free onboarding and data migration with most companies live in under three weeks. Truxello has a 14-day free trial of every feature with no credit card, so you can run real loads before you talk to anyone.

Do LoadOps customers have to move to Alvys?

No. On September 23, 2026, Optym announced that Alvys is acquiring the LoadOps customer base and that accounts are being migrated to Alvys one at a time. Alvys is the TMS Optym chose, but which system runs your trucks is still your decision. Check your LoadOps agreement for notice terms, then pick the TMS that fits your operation.

Where is Alvys the better choice than Truxello?

Alvys is the better fit if you broker freight as well as haul it, take EDI tenders from shippers, need DAT or RMIS and Highway inside the TMS, must share tracking through MacroPoint or FourKites, or want a vendor to migrate your documents and history for you. Truxello is built for carriers running their own trucks and does not do EDI or brokerage operations.

Is Truxello affiliated with Alvys, Optym or LoadOps?

No. Truxello is an independent TMS for trucking carriers and is not part of the Optym and Alvys arrangement.

An Alvys Alternative That Charges Per Truck, Not Per Load