Who is in charge of loadboards anymore?

Aren't all the loadboards about the same? I use TE and it works ok most of the time. Every now and then it will loss connection.
Before I signed up for it they said they are the DAT board and everything went through DAT? I don't know maybe someone else can tell me?

 

Yes, they are DAT.

 

You think DAT is the best? Or do you have another choice?
I like the one I use now cause it shows real DH miles and lloaded miles and not that SHORT mile crap. It also shows weights and other details.

 

From my seat, I can't get by with just one LB. Great example was last week in Omaha. DAT had less than 50 loads and ITS had over 350 loads withing 100 mile radius. And I have seen it flip. Have tried other boards but most of the loads being posted can be found at ITS or DAT.

Just watch all the extras at ITS. Seems everything is $35/mo more. But, I can have unlimited people on it without extra fees.

 

Thanks for the info. I will look into ITS I've had good results overall with
TE. Has anyone used real time freight? total waste of money.

 

I too find that ITS can be very slow and just assumed that the new format and large customer base was bogging down their servers. Sometimes ITS gets stuck and just sits there and won't refresh. I'm on a T2 line so it isn't the download speed which I just tested at about 7MBS with a 99% quality rating. I've only got 2GB of RAM so maybe I'll upgrade and see if I get the results that Bill has gotten. They say computer power doubles every 2 years and 2 years ago my then 2 year old computer with 1GB of RAM was much faster when using ITS.

 

Modern browsers are memory hogs to start with. Although, I doubt any of us is running only ITS in a single window with no other apps open. I just did a test just to see how piggy these web apps are.

Too many changes in the system monitor to really tell what's consuming how much at any given moment. On the MB Air, the single ITS window running by itself really didn't have a huge impact. The browser processes used about 75MB of real memory. Interestingly, the flash player plug-in grabbed about 25MB when I loaded ITS and was affected by how much content was being played. Loading the intellicast weather page with it's embedded flash advertising actually kicked the memory use up higher than ITS.

Also, the amount of hard drive space either used to "park" data not immediately in use, or enable more memory use than what's actually installed (swap file) plays a factor. Low memory systems will rely on swap more heavily for the second reason, which is way slower.

To summarize, I found about 150-200MB of RAM is used with ITS running by itself. Not a real problem until you have a bunch of other web tabs open, e-mail, and maybe a spreadsheet or three.

What's telling is the stats from my office system, which is a very over-spec'd Mac Pro. Right now, I have 5 browser windows with 21 tabs open in total. Two load boards, credit check, 2-3 Google maps, truck service locators, and other assorted mayhem. I have the luxury on this system to not bother worrying about how much crap is open at the same time. It will handle it.

The browser has grabbed 6GB of RAM. Flash is using another 350MB to play all the embedded ads in the pages displaying them.

I guess the point of all that is to say a more normal use case would be about 1/4 of that (2 windows and maybe 6 tabs open at once), which would consume around 1.5GB before you even open anything else. On a system with only 1 or 2GB of RAM it would sure slow things down.

On the Mac Pro, sitting on 30mbps cable, ITS never flinches.

 

I sure wish these boards would limit poster to one of each listing, same load posted posted by five brokers three different cities. You have to sort through them just wasting time. I think TQL is the worst at it.
I have missed the motherload of loads today 920 miles, three picks and one drop for the large amount of 1800.00. Think I'm going to cry.

 

I haven't been on ITS since they came out with ITS2, just yesterday I wiped the office computer clean and reloaded just the basic programs. Just for entertainment purposes I tried logging onto ITS2, again I've came to the conclusion ITS sucks. The page must have been programmed by a 5yr old. You shouldn't need 2gb of RAM to run a scripted website. I use another scripted load board that also uses push notifications and it runs perfect, it's just ITS. As another guy said, they're taking advice from Netflix.

 

Load forcast today is CHEAP to REALLY CHEAP.
Good time for vacation if not for qaulity rebuilt transmission.