Summary: Sharing your DAT login with a coworker, or installing a browser extension that pulls data out of DAT for you, might look like a quick way to stretch a subscription. Both are prohibited under DAT’s Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy (or your agreement with DAT). They also put your account, your data, and your business at real risk. Here’s what the rules are and why they exist.
Why DAT doesn’t allow login sharing
Each DAT login is for one person. Sharing it with anyone else, inside or outside your company, violates DAT’s terms. If someone else on your team needs DAT, they need their own login.
The rule exists because a login only protects you when one person uses it. When two or more people work from the same login, you lose the things a login is supposed to protect:
Your account gets harder to secure. Every person who has your password is another way that password can end up somewhere it shouldn’t, in a text message, a shared spreadsheet, or a sticky note on someone’s monitor. You can’t reset or rotate a shared password without disrupting everyone using it, so most companies never do. That leaves a stale credential sitting out there indefinitely.
You lose the ability to tell who did what. If a shared account posts a truck with the wrong details, saves the wrong lane alert, or offers a load at the wrong rate, there’s no way to know which person was at the keyboard. That makes the mistake harder to track down and fix.
One compromised device compromises everyone. If the login is shared across a laptop, a phone, and a dispatch office computer, a single infected or stolen device puts every person using that login at risk, not just the one who made the mistake.
Three people, three devices, and one password all depending on each other is a risk your business doesn’t need to take.
The tricky part about extensions
DAT’s terms don’t permit browser extensions or other automated tools that copy, bulk-export, or scrape data out of DAT. That includes tools that promise to save you time by pulling loads, rates, or other information out of your DAT session.
Here’s why the rule matters. Any extension you allow into your browser can see everything your browser can see while you’re logged in, including your DAT session. That’s the access it needs to scrape data, and it’s the same access it would need to do something you never signed up for.
What’s at risk when you install one:
- You’re handing over your session, not just your data. Most of these extensions work by riding along inside your logged-in DAT session. If the extension is poorly built, compromised, or was never legitimate to begin with, it has the same access to your account that you do.
- Extensions get sold, abandoned, and hijacked. An extension you trusted a year ago can change hands, change its code, or start injecting ads and tracking scripts, often without any visible change on your end.
- It can put your whole business at risk. Malware delivered through a browser extension isn’t limited to your DAT account. It can reach anything else you’re logged into on that device, including email, banking, and other business tools.
What happens if an account breaks these rules
DAT may suspend or terminate accounts that share logins or use data-scraping extensions.
The simplest way to protect your account is also the way to stay within your agreement with DAT: keep your login to yourself, and keep scraping tools out of your browser.
