Old-School Drivers

If the load board isn't owned by a carrier, they are worth what you pay for them. If you can't afford $35 to try INternet Truckstop out for a month, I don't even know what to say. They were the best that I found from 2003-09. Load boards like that are a third party who need to make money too. One load a month more than pays for it.

 

Because they are the biggest player for the o/o out there. They have the most brokers posting and were the easiest to use (circa 2009). I started out with Getloaded, IT and TruckersEdge (DAT). I stayed with IT and DAT till I gave up my authority. These fly by night loadboards never pan out to keep your truck running. Most shippers use brokers for their overflow or non-contracted freight.

 

IT is just a forum. Brokers set the rates and 97% you have to call to be them. It sounds like you have no clue and are just a shill for this FC site.

 

If that's the case forget about this FC site or whatever. Hundreds of online loadboards have come and gone over the last decade. Going straight to the shippers is OK in theory, but there is a reason they use brokers in the first place. It's a lot less work. They're very optimistic if they fell they're going to change this industry in a meaningful way. In the mean time, go get some contract freight and work the loadboards in between. That's how you make money out here, plain and simple. Load boards, in general, are full of the crap no one wants. Even on the Landstar load board for leased trucks, those loads are from agents who don't have a known to them driver in the area. The Landstar broker board is freight that leased trucks didn't want. See how that works. I haven't pulled a load off the LS board in a month, and I'm doing very well.

 

Majority of the BIG carriers that have LOGISTICS divisions also have load boards. And surprisingly pay fairly decent rates.