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ark.create_manual_load_bid

Creates or updates a pending manual carrier bid for a visible load, matching the manual bid entry workflow on the load market intelligence tab.

Availability: Expanded preview
Scopes: loads:dispatch
ARK permissions: one of: canEditLoadone of: canAssignLoads
Team visibility: Required and enforced
Idempotency-Key: Required for this write
Approval: No MCP approval on REST API-token calls
Rate limit: API credential and organization budgets

Parameters

loadIdpathstringrequired: format: uuid
Idempotency-Keyheaderstringrequired: Required for external write operations. Reuse the same key only for exact retries of the same request body.; min length: 1; max length: 200

Request body

carrierIdstringrequired

format: uuid

bidAmountnumberrequired

notesstring | null

max length: 1000

contactMethodstring

one of: phone, email; default: "phone"

Example request

Shell

curl -X POST 'https://arktms.com/api/v1/loads/<loadId>/bids/manual' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ARK_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: <unique-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "carrierId": "<carrierId>",
  "bidAmount": 1
}'

Success response

Created or updated manual load bid

objectstringrequired

okbooleanrequired

api_versionstringrequired

request_idstringrequired

dataobjectrequired

data.loadIdstringrequired

format: uuid

data.loadobjectrequired

data.bidobjectrequired

data.updatedExistingbooleanrequired

data.messagestringrequired

Errors

HTTP 400: Invalid request
HTTP 401: Authentication required
HTTP 403: Permission, scope, team, or entitlement denied
HTTP 404: Resource not found
HTTP 409: Idempotency conflict or in-progress retry