Freight Matching
Digital freight matching helps brokers and shippers connect with their ideal carriers for the best possible partnerships.
Freight matching has been around for decades — first brokers and shippers posted at truck stop bulletin boards, then they used fax machines to connect with carriers. Today, digital freight matching allows you to optimize your deals with high-precision freight matching tools.
- Find capacity fast with the DAT One (Formerly DAT Power) load board.
- Secure deals immediately, and streamline your transactions.
- Access digital freight matching tools on the go.
Find capacity fast with the DAT Power load board.
Freight matching allows you to identify the right carriers for your freight so you can find the best deals.
The DAT load board offers a range of streamlined solutions to digital freight matching. Instead of posting loads and waiting for carriers to find them, brokers and shippers can use DAT’s digital freight matching algorithm for a great match every time. Digital freight matching software allows carriers to quickly accept loads based on a variety of factors, such as capacity specifics, location, and truck type.
Secure deals immediately, and streamline your transactions.
Attract carriers and speed up your transactions with the Book Now feature.
Your subscription to the DAT One (Formerly DAT Power) load board allows you to provide an immediate booking option for carriers, using DAT’s Book Now feature. When the right carrier identifies your load, you can send the carrier to your booking portal with a single link. Meanwhile, carriers can find the right loads without hassle. With this quick and easy system, everybody wins!
Access digital freight matching tools on the go.
Communicate with carriers and manage your load postings using the DAT One mobile app.
With the free DAT One mobile app, you can access your transportation management system (TMS) from wherever you have internet access. That means you can communicate with carriers as soon as they match with your postings, and post loads as soon as they’re available. Mobile access is the key to efficient transactions, and DAT One makes efficiency easy.
Digital freight matching (DFM) is the newest innovation in a long history of freight matching services. DFM provides an online source for loads that are available immediately. Rates are already posted, so there’s no negotiating necessary.
To find loads using DFM, carriers can simply search for freight using their unique load requirements. Then, an algorithm provides them with the best freight matches. From the DFM website, carriers can find and book loads fast.
DAT is a pioneer in freight matching services. Starting in 1978, DAT provided manual freight-matching services at truck stops. As technology developed, DAT began to offer freight matching via fax machine, and eventually digital freight matching was born.
For maximum efficiency, DAT offers the Book Now feature for carriers to book freight with pre-posted rates. There are plenty of other unique features that make DAT the leader among digital freight matching companies, including DAT iQ for market analytics, DAT TriHaul to identify triangular routes, and DAT Advanced LaneMakers to find hidden capacity.
In the internet age, it’s no longer necessary for brokers to post on bulletin boards or fax carriers to negotiate transactions. Digital freight matching platforms allow brokers to search for loads using specific criteria, and book these loads immediately using pre-posted rates. Ultimately, DAT helps to automate the freight matching process while providing the best possible matches.
How can brokers find carriers who don’t have much data on the DAT network? Advanced LaneMakers, DAT’s hidden capacity finder, is here to help.
Advanced LaneMakers uses data from our load board activity to find carriers who have been searching on a particular lane, so you can identify carriers who haven’t even posted a truck yet. Hidden capacity software lets you get ahead of the competition by finding the best possible carrier for each load.
With a subscription to DAT, brokers can access accurate digital freight matching with the country’s largest network of carriers and brokers. To ensure your postings are profitable, make sure you’re not overselling your loads. For the fairest market prices, DAT offers a wide range of insights into market pricing, with average spot market rates developed using real invoices. Now, brokers can accurately determine the best prices for each load and each lane.
Digital freight matching is the newest chapter in DAT’s story as the nation’s leader in freight matching services. Our objective is to maintain a lasting partnership with each one of our clients. We do this by providing the best matches using precision algorithms — on the nation’s largest freight network.
“The DAT Load Board is the only one I use, and I really don’t see any interest in trying any other one.”
- Brian Stone, Stone’s Trucking LLC
"DAT Load Board is awesome. They even teach you how to book a load and how to use it on your computer or cell phone app. Highly recommend DAT!"
- Francis Gatmaitan, Alpha Trucking
Get loads fast with digital freight matching!
With DAT, brokers and shippers can use digital freight matching to find the best carriers fast. To optimize every deal, DAT offers market rates, lane insights, and the largest network of shippers and carriers in the country. Get the most out of every transaction with intelligent freight matching.