Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Jim Allen, Freightwaves. From public boards to private portals and niche freight co-ops, each load board serves a different ...

When you’re a one-truck owner-operator or a small 3–5 truck fleet, your morning rhythm is clockwork: coffee, pre-trip, open the load board, refresh, refresh again, stare at the rates, call brokers, ...

While a necessary part of business for many, load boards and brokers have challenges. Two industry executives offer advice on how to avoid them. While load boards are a necessary part of the trucking ...

Hours-of-service compliance was the original intent of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule but shipment visibility could be the most valuable outcome, at least for shippers and freight brokers.

DAT, a business unit of TransCore, announced that 25 percent more equipment types are available on its DAT 3sixty and TruckersEdge load boards to help flatbed and other specialty load providers — ...

Load board operator Truckstop and the Owner Operator Independent Driver Association have agreed to what they are calling a “groundbreaking collaboration” that will see Truckstop named OOIDA’s ...

Built to help truckers find loads and other services, the DAT One app is available now for iOS and Android devices. DAT Freight & Analytics announced its new DAT One app. Designed to help truckers ...

Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

As of December, DAT Solutions has integrated Getloaded, a leading load board for smaller freight brokers and carriers, into the DAT network of load boards. DAT says the move expands its load-board ...

More owner-operators are leaving their laptops at home and doing business on the road – including load-finding – exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. When 4B Transportation owner-operator ...

“I think it starts with the customer and really understanding their problems,” said Nadya Duke Boone, vice president of product at DAT Freight & Analytics. “When they’re looking at that load they ...

Load boards have changed a lot from their humble beginnings about 40 years ago. Long gone are written notes tacked up on truck stop bulletin boards to help drivers find freight, or using telephones at ...