How to Use Load Boards: DAT vs Truckstop for Trucking Freight

so let's begin by diving deep into load boards and I'll show you what a Load Board looks like and how to use

it so let's start off by discussing what a Load Board actually is so a Load Board is an online marketplace where trucking

companies shippers and Brokers uh can post the loads that they have available as well as help find loads uh to hul so

it's basically a platform that helps connect shippers uh and Brokers with carriers

so a shipper for example will post an available Freight on the slbo with uh the equipment type that's required to

move this Freight and any other additional information and then a carrier uh would reach out to this

broker in regards to the freight and find out more information about it and try to provide their services to help

move this Freight from point A to point B so there's a lot of benefits to low boards for all the parties in evolved so

for the shippers they typically work through Brokers uh but the benefit for the shippers is that their Freight is um

you know is moved from point A to point B by a truck driver and the benefit for the broker is they get to keep a

commission um you know they get to keep a chunk of the money when they find a truck driver to move that Freight for

the shipper so for example a shipper might say hey here's $1,000 I need this load move from point A to point B uh you

know it's your job find to find a truck driver to to do that for us and the broker what they would do is they would

post that Freight on the lad board a truck driver would call them and say hey I'm interested in this load I'd like to

move it they would negotiate and let's say the broker gives this load to the stru driver for 800 bucks in that

process you know they made 200 bucks just off of that one load so that's the benefit for the

Brokers now the benefit for the carriers is uh they're able to fill an idle truck with uh Freight so that they're not just

sitting there empty and you know they're making money in the process now in most cases a truck driver

would hire a dispatcher to deal with these Brokers and you know to negotiate with them and obtain all the load

information and update the Brokers with uh status of the truck drivers during the uh Logistics process so the benefit

you know for the dispatcher is that they get to keep a a commission uh for each load that they book so you know if your

commission is 8% if you book a load for $1,000 you know you get to keep 80 bucks so that's the benefit uh for the

dispatchers and you know lowboard is very convenient um you know they're it's very simple to use so you know there's a

lot of benefits to low boards um and a lot of people make a lot of money uh using these

boards so there's a lot of low boards out there uh the two major ones are the DAT lowboard and the truck stop lowboard

uh in this course we're going to focus on the DAT lowboard and the reason for this is um the truck stop lowboard

actually does not let uh dispatchers have their own account so they have to work through their carrier meaning that

their carrier has to purchase a uh account on truck stop and then provide the credentials to the dispatcher so

that they have access to to the lowboard now for the DAT lowboard on the other hand they actually allow for dispatchers

to create their uh account and have access to the low boards so since we did not have our own MC Authority uh we

can't create an account on truck stop but on the D lowboard on the other hand we can create an account and have access

to the largest lowboard out there and again um you know the D board is actually you know better than the truck

stop lad board and the reason for that is because a lot of the Brokers use the DAT board as their primary uh low board

uh when they're posting Freight now there's other uh thirdparty low boards um that Brokers themselves have created

so CH Robinson has their own lowboard coyote has their own lowboard JB Hunt has their own lowboard and you'll get

familiarized with uh these names uh because these are you know very big Brokers so you'll see their loads very

often often and book a lot of their loads as well now just because they have their own load board does not mean that

they don't post their available loads on the DHC lad board uh they understand that a lot of truck drivers are sitting

on the DH lad boards so whatever load that they post on their lowboard they would also post it on D lowboard