Freight Broker Tools
Freight Broker Tools
DAT provides freight brokerage companies with easy and efficient solutions, alleviating the responsibilities that come with being a freight broker.
Effortlessly connect shippers and carriers, efficiently handle your back-office tasks, and stay updated with DAT’s comprehensive freight broker tools. Simplify load finding, streamline accounting processes, and ensure compliance with certifications. Elevate your operations with the power of DAT’s comprehensive tools for freight brokers.
- Empower your business growth, minimize back-end burden.
- Find profitable truck loads efficiently, accelerate growth.
- Add scalable capabilities, drive ongoing success.
Empower your business growth, minimize back-end burden.
Let us handle the paperwork while you focus on your freight broker business.
Find profitable truck loads efficiently, accelerate growth.
By simplifying carrier-shipper matching, DAT enables brokers to effortlessly build and expand their networks.
Add scalable capabilities, drive ongoing success.
The best freight brokers plan ahead for growth, and DAT grows with freight broker companies.
Freight broker companies, or an individual freight broker, help shippers who have loads ready to haul find carriers who are qualified and ready to move freight. A freight broker either operates on their own or works for larger freight brokerage companies. Brokers also handle the negotiations between the two parties, acting as a middleman with no specific affiliation with either party. Once the arrangement is made, freight broker companies are responsible for invoicing shippers and paying carriers. That’s why software like DAT Broker TMS is critical for making sure loads and payments alike are delivered on time.
Brokers companies for truck loads have a lot of tasks to manage in both the front office and the back office. A transportation management system (TMS) helps freight broker companies manage all of that work, providing load building, dispatching, and accounting systems that make life easier for freight brokers. DAT Broker TMS, the best TMS on the market, also integrates with the DAT Load Board to centralize all your operations in one convenient location.
To become a freight broker you’ll first need to get your operating authority. Every truck freight broker in the U.S. must apply for and be granted a FMCSA number for identification purposes. From there, you’ll need a $75,000 security bond, insurance, a dedicated process agency, and you’ll need to go through truck freight broker training.
Freight broker tools like DAT Broker Authority can help a commercial freight broker get all these certifications quickly, so that a freight broker business can get up and running as quickly as possible.
Freight broker companies find loads using personal connections in the industry if they have them and, more importantly, load boards. The best trucking brokers know that when it comes to finding loads, more is more. The DAT Load Board gives you instant access to millions of loads and integrates with Broker TMS to help simplify your billing and help you manage client relationships — the two elements at the heart of any freight broker business. Plus, as a freight broker, you’ll also benefit from DAT’s real-time insights into market conditions and rates that help you stay competitive in a constantly shifting industry.
Starting out as a freight broker can feel a little overwhelming at first. But the best trucking brokers know to ask for help when they need it. To get a freight broker business off the ground, keep up with industry blogs like Freight 360, take a freight broker training course, and look into freight broker tools like DAT Broker Authority, TMS, and Load Board to get on the fast track for becoming a successful truck freight broker.