Flatbed Trucking Rates
Flatbed Trucking Rates
With DAT iQ, you’ll have easy access to the most accurate flatbed trucking rates in the industry.
Expedited trucking has seen huge growth in the past twenty years. To succeed in this fast-paced branch of trucking, you need the best resources at your disposal. With a quality expedited load board, you can get on the road fast.
- Find the right expedited loads quickly and easily.
- Get expedited loads from brokers you can trust.
- Get the best possible rates for your expedited loads.
Find the best flatbed truck rates per mile.
DAT provides brokers, shippers, carriers, and drivers with tools to ensure their rates are competitive.
Our rates are based on analysis of $150 billion in real shipping transactions conducted over our load board network — the largest of its kind in the industry. We use powerful data analytics to provide rate forecasting up to 52 weeks in advance, with twice the accuracy of any competitor.
Get a taste of our data with our free DAT Trendlines report brings you weekly updates on average gas prices, regional demand and capacity, and other market factors.
Get business intelligence tailored for the needs of your operation.
Put uncertainty in the rear-view mirror.
Have a problem you’re not sure how to solve? Want to have a better understanding of changes in market demand? Contact DAT and we’ll use our data analytics capabilities to collect relevant market and performance information, analyze historical patterns, and deliver custom reports with insight that makes it easy to understand the results.
Never be blindsided by market changes again.
Driven by comprehensive data collection, our forecasts are designed to help you navigate the market with ease.
Over the years, we’ve created the deepest truckload pricing index in the business, which DAT Ratecast uses to shed a light on key market changes. Now, it’s simpler than ever to stay on top of seasonal fluctuations, short-term upsets, and years-long patterns — all while protecting your profit margins.
We offer solutions both for the short and long term. Our rate forecasting tools can anticipate flatbed freight rates up to 52 weeks in advance more accurately than anyone in the business. Plus, our short-term 3-day forecasts have been refined to help you improve pricing strategies for same-day or next-day freight.
Further, our Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC), designed for shippers and 3PLs, provides regular updates and analysis of transaction-level data with the aim of helping businesses reach deeper understandings of their operational needs, expenses, and procurement and pricing strategies.
Yes! Our load board subscriptions make it easy to find freight in real time, while also providing valuable data for carriers — like broker credit scores, average days to pay, and reviews from other clients — designed to help you make better-informed business decisions. Not only that, our boards give you lane averages for more than 70 types of freight, including reefer, van, and flatbed rates, even when the posting doesn’t include a price.
If you’ve got a handle on your operations and are looking for an advanced tool for checking flatbed truck freight rates, then DAT RateView is right for you. RateView can give you real-time 24/7 access to contract rates, spot market rates, and flatbed trucking rates per mile. It also allows you to benchmark your rates, see average accessorial and fuel charges on your preferred lanes, and check market maps to see where demand is high.
In addition to analyzing billions of dollars’ worth of real invoice transactions on more than 68,000 lanes, we work closely with hundreds of companies in 149 distinct market regions to collect a variety of data points that help us paint an accurate picture of market conditions. Our databases allow you to search and filter this rate information based on zip code and route, rather than geographic radius, with the result being the most precise freight rates available in the industry.
We’ve been a leading logistics and back-end operations solutions provider for the trucking industry since 1978. From our early days as Dial-A-Truck to the comprehensive set of on-demand digital freight-finding tools we now offer, we’ve been at the cutting edge of using technology to provide shippers, drivers, brokers, carriers, dispatchers, and independent owner operators with the tools and information to do their jobs more efficiently and profitably.
If you would like to learn more about market conditions, industry news, seasonal fluctuations and trends, and updates to freight regulations, check out the DAT blog. We update it regularly with data from our team of market analysts, and include insights specifically for carriers, brokers, and shippers.
"In our experience, DAT is the most accurate and complete source of spot and contract rate data available.”
- Don Everhart, VP Technology & Analytics for Knight-Swift Logistics
“I’ve been using DAT for 10 years, and I can tell you that there’s not a product there that compares, as far as consistency, the data quality, the number of reports, the number of sources—it’s incredibly accurate.”
- Andrew Smith - VP of Sales & Operations, Circle Logistics
See tomorrow's trends today.
Contact us today to get the most trusted truckload pricing tools in trucking and take the uncertainty out of freight. DAT iQ offers the most historically complete freight rate database, so you can anticipate seasonal trends and make quick pricing decisions.