Software as a service (SAAS) services, namely, hosting software for use by the transportation industry that enables users to search for carrier information, to plan, schedule and manage pickup and delivery of shipments, to request quotes from carriers, to create and manage shipping documents, to manage route guides; software as a service (SAAS) services, featuring software for providing pricing information relating to shipments and aggregating carrier information, namely, shipment tracing and freight bill invoicing; software as a service (SAAS) services, featuring software for identifying location attributes for use in the calculation of freight charges