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 ...

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 — ...

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.

Truckload freight volumes tumbled in July from their highs in June—and the spot market continues its summer slump, DAT Freight & Analytics reported this week. “Demand for van and reefer services ...

“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 ...

More and more, owner-operators are leaving their laptops back at the home base and doing business on the road exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. Take the example of 4B Transportation LLC ...

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 — ...

The surge in freight movement that started in late April and is accelerating through May 2026 is not the organic demand recovery that small carriers have been waiting three years to see. It is, in ...

The amount of freight available to haul from the spot truckload market surged in November as rates generally moved higher, according to newly released figures from DAT Solutions and its network of ...

“I’m not some college kid coming into a big cubicle farm office. I came in from a driver’s seat.” –Brian Hardman, Fulmer Logistics I had a chance to catch up with the go-to broker from my owner-op ...