Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

8 Numbers That Are Just As Important as the Rate

With DAT RateView, you can compare contract and spot market freight rates on more than 65,000 lanes in North America.

How to Choose the Best TMS Software for Freight Brokers

What’s the best transportation management software (TMS) for freight brokers? There are many software vendors to choose from—including a TMS.

Posting Trucks and the 80/20 Rule

There’s one piece of advice that I’d give to any carrier running the spot market. It’s advice that can significantly impact your operations.

Communicating With Brokers: It's All About the Phone Call

In my six years as an owner-operator who works exclusively with brokers, I’ve been able to communicate better and more effectively with them.

12 Tips to Get (and Keep) the BEST Carriers

Finding a truck might not be so hard in the current market, but how do you recruit and retain the best carriers?

4 Ways to Find a Great Load

I’ve been an owner-operator for over eight years, and I’ve learned a few tricks that help me to make more money in this industry.

5 Ways to Show Respect to a Driver

This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week. Here are 5 ways that carriers, brokers, and shippers can show respect to drivers.

What is the Load-to-Truck Ratio?

We write about the load-to-truck ratio a lot on this blog, but we don’t always explain it satisfactorily.

6 steps to adding a brokerage to your trucking company

Do you have shipper customers who need to move more freight than you can service with the current size of your operation?

Successful Brokers Put Carriers First

Eric Dunigan, President, and Matt Pyatt, CEO, of Arrive Logistics have prioritized carriers since they started their company in 2014.

Avoid Fraudulent Carriers with the DAT Directory

WHAT’S IN THE TOOLBOX? The DAT Directory is one of many tools in the DAT Power toolbox that can help avoid fraud in the industry.

4 Tips to Plan Your Routes…and Make More Money

Freight availability is starting to improve, after a long, quiet winter. You can finally be a little bit choosier about your loads.