This article walks you through using the Rate history page to look up historical carrier rates by lane, equipment type, and other criteria.
What you're looking at: Rate history is a read-only view of every shipment in polt.ai, focused on rate data. It's not editable — to change rate information, open the source shipment and edit it from there.
1. Open Rate history
Click Shipments in the top nav and select View rate history. The Rate history page loads with the most recent shipments first.
2. Filter to find relevant past rates
Use the Search and filter bar at the top of the page to narrow the list. Common filters for rate research:
Origin city / Origin state — to find rates on a specific lane
Destination city / Destination state
Equipment type — match the equipment you're quoting (Reefer, Flatbed, Van, etc.)
Carrier — to see what you've paid a specific carrier historically
Pick-up at — to limit to recent rates only
Filters work the same way as on the main Shipments dashboard. See Searching and filtering shipments for details on stacking filters and using comparators.
3. Customize columns and views
You can customize which columns appear on Rate history and save view configurations the same way you do on the main dashboard:
Customize dashboard columns
Create and manage saved views
Tip: Set up a saved view for each lane you quote frequently (e.g., "Reefer — CA to TX") so you can pull recent rate comps with one click.
4. Open a shipment for full context
To see the full details behind any rate, click the row to open the source shipment.