My company would tell me there's no freight (or there's no freight heading towards my house) but I'd go into the Pilot and check the DAT board and always find a load.
Since my company pretty much kept me in the dark about the other side of the buisness, how would I go about obtaining a load from a DAT listing?
Do I just call? Do I have to submit a bid? Do they ask for a lot of information?
(Obviously I can't just pick up the phone and run for two days and put the cash in my pocket while my company decides they'd rather have me sit for the weekend, but it's not like the thought hasn't occured to me)
DAT boards, I always wondered how they worked
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Infosaur, Sep 21, 2009.
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are you a company driver or an owner op? When i worked for CRST as a company driver they never had loads going towards my house but they always brokered something up for me so I'd get home. I live in SW michigan so that always meant taking a load to detroit or south bend (IN) and bobtailing it home...they of course never told me where the load came from, but it was obvious it was brokered because of the way it happened.
Annnd...if you're an owner-operator, most companies have a pretty specific procedure for doing exactly this. Just call them and ask.
They'll of course want their cut of the pay but it should be fine.
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Forget about it if you are a company driver. As an O/O or L/P, you need to "qualify" to get that load. You need to prove your authority/insurance/reliability etc. There are as many flake brokers as trucking companies. Just because it's posted on a truck stop load board doesn't mean it's a good deal. If the load/broker has a bad reputation, your company won't deal with them.
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