If you run freight on LoadOps, your TMS is changing and you didn’t ask for it. 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 (FreightWaves coverage).
The important thing to understand is this: you are switching TMS either way. That changes the math. The usual reason carriers stay on a system they’ve outgrown is that migrating is painful. You’re going to pay that cost regardless now, which makes this the one moment where shopping around is effectively free.
We make Truxello, a TMS for carriers, so we have a stake in this. We’ve kept to facts from the vendors’ own pages and marked our arithmetic as arithmetic. We’ve also said plainly below where accepting the Alvys migration is the right call.
What Actually Happened
Optym, the company behind LoadOps and LoadAi, sold its LoadOps customer base to Alvys. Optym is not solely a trucking software company — it builds optimization software across rail, airline, and mining as well as trucking — and this moves it out of the small-carrier TMS business.
Alvys is an AI-first TMS founded in 2020, serving carriers, brokers, and hybrid asset-based brokerages. It has raised $77 million and claims more than 2,000 companies on the platform. It advertises free onboarding and data migration, says it has already mapped the LoadOps data schema, and states most companies go live in under three weeks.
Optym hasn’t called it a shutdown, and migrations are being handled individually rather than with one cutoff date. But the practical effect for you is the same as a sunset: the system running your trucks is changing on a schedule someone else sets, unless you decide otherwise.
What It Means for Your Fleet
Three things are worth separating out, because they get conflated in vendor messaging.
First, you have a choice. Alvys is the TMS Optym picked. It isn’t automatically the TMS that fits your operation. Being handed a replacement vendor is not the same as evaluating one.
Second, the pricing model is changing, not just the logo. Alvys prices per load. If you were on a flat or per-truck LoadOps arrangement, your bill now moves with your freight volume. That’s a structural change to your cost base, and it hits short-haul, regional, and dedicated operations hardest, because they run the most loads per truck.
Third, your data is the leverage. Whatever you decide, exporting your records while you still have full access keeps every option open. Do it before you’re scheduled.
Export Your LoadOps Data First
Do this this week, regardless of where you land. Once an account is migrated or closed, getting historical records back is someone else’s priority, not yours.
- The All Loads export. This is the important one. It carries your load numbers, pickups and drops in order, customers, rates, accessorials, and invoice and paid status. Your open receivables live here.
- Customers and contacts. Broker names, billing addresses, contacts, and payment terms.
- Drivers, trucks, and trailers. Including pay setups, per-mile or percentage rates, and recurring deductions.
- Settlement and pay history. Export the statements themselves, not just totals. You need year-to-date figures to start clean somewhere else mid-year, and drivers will ask about old pay.
- Documents. Rate confirmations, BOLs, and PODs usually have to be downloaded separately from the data export. This is the slowest part and the part most people skip. You need these for audits, claims, and collections.
- IFTA and fuel records. State-by-state miles and fuel purchases for any quarter you haven’t filed yet.
Save the original exports somewhere outside any TMS — cloud storage or a drive you control. Don’t rely on a new vendor’s import as your only copy, and don’t delete anything until you’ve confirmed your open invoices and year-to-date driver pay match in the new system.
Per-Load Pricing: What to Ask
Alvys advertises a starting rate of $3.95 per load with unlimited users and business divisions, and asks you to request a custom quote. It does not publish tiers. Notably, Alvys’s own LoadOps migration page warns that if you hold your LoadOps volume against its published pricing you’ll get a “scary number that isn’t real,” because a specialist has to translate your true load count first.
That may be entirely fair. The problem is that you can’t model it yourself before the call. So get specifics in writing:
- What’s my translated monthly load count, and what’s my per-load rate?
- How is a load counted? Does a multi-stop trip count once or per stop? What about a split load, a relay, a cancelled load, or a load you hand to a sub-carrier?
- What does my busiest month cost, not my average month?
- How long is the contract, and what’s the notice period to leave?
- What comes across in the migration? Load records only, or documents and pay history too?
- What happens to my rate at renewal?
For scale, here’s arithmetic on the advertised $3.95 starting rate for a 10-truck fleet, next to a per-truck system at the same size. The left column is simple multiplication, not a quote — your negotiated rate and counted load volume will differ.
| Loads per month | At $3.95/load | Truxello, 10 trucks |
|---|---|---|
| 40 (one 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 point isn’t that one number is always lower. It’s which direction the bill moves when business is good. Per load, growth costs more. Per truck, only buying another truck changes what you pay.
Alternatives Worth Comparing
Accept the Alvys migration if you broker freight as well as haul it, shippers tender you loads over EDI, your brokers require MacroPoint or FourKites tracking, you need DAT, RMIS, or Highway inside the TMS, you want a public API, or you want a vendor to lift and shift your documents and history for you. Alvys does all of that and Truxello does not. It also has a longer track record and far more reviews than we do, and that’s a real consideration.
Shop around if you only run your own trucks, you want a bill you can predict, you run a lot of loads per truck, or you want to actually try software before committing. Options worth a look:
- Truxello — $29/mo for one truck, $164/mo for ten, unlimited loads and office users. Free LoadOps load-history import. 14-day trial, no card. Carrier-only; no brokerage or EDI. See the LoadOps alternative and Alvys alternative pages.
- TruckLogics — strong IFTA, $39.95/mo for 1–2 trucks, steps up past 7 trucks. Comparison.
- Truckbase — $290/mo minimum billed annually, guided onboarding, good reviews. Comparison.
- AscendTMS — $69–$149 per office user, good for carrier-brokers. Comparison.
- Rose Rocket — from $2,080/mo, mid-market carriers and brokers. Comparison.
A broader breakdown is in our best TMS for small carriers guide.
We read the LoadOps All Loads export the way LoadOps lays it out and bring over load numbers (load 2880 stays 2880), multi-stop routes in order, customers, rates, accessorials, and invoice and paid status. We also rebuilt our settlement statements against a real LoadOps Tractor Owner Settlement so your drivers can still read them. The import is free. Documents and past pay statements don’t come across — keep your export for those.
A Two-Week Decision Plan
- Days 1–2: Export everything from LoadOps, including documents. Store it somewhere you control.
- Day 3: Read your LoadOps agreement for notice, renewal, and auto-renew terms so you know your actual deadline.
- Days 4–7: Take the Alvys call. Ask the pricing questions above and get answers in writing.
- Days 4–7 (in parallel): Start a free trial of at least one per-truck alternative. Run this week’s real loads through it — upload the rate cons, dispatch them, send one invoice, run one settlement. That’s the honest test; a demo isn’t.
- Days 8–10: Compare total annual cost at your real volume, including your busiest month, not just the headline rate.
- Days 11–14: Decide, then migrate deliberately with opening year-to-date driver pay entered so settlements are right from week one.
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Is LoadOps shutting down?
Optym hasn’t described it as a shutdown. It announced on September 23, 2026 that Alvys is acquiring the LoadOps customer base in a strategic partnership, with accounts migrating one at a time. The practical effect for a LoadOps carrier is similar to a sunset: your TMS is changing on a schedule set by the vendors unless you choose otherwise.
Do LoadOps customers have to move to Alvys?
No. Alvys is the TMS Optym selected, but which system runs your trucks is still your decision. Check your LoadOps agreement for notice terms, export your data, then pick what fits your operation.
Will I lose my load history?
Not if you export first. Alvys says it has mapped the LoadOps schema and includes documents in its migration. If you go elsewhere, your All Loads export is what carries your history — Truxello imports it free, including load numbers and open invoice status. Either way, download your documents yourself.
How much does Alvys cost per load?
Advertised from $3.95 per load with unlimited users and divisions, with the real figure set on a quote call. Alvys doesn’t publish tiers and counts loads its own way, so ask for your translated load count and per-load rate in writing.
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.