Using two load boards

Always lower heading west from the east coast

 

AGREED. I hate all the calls from Truckstop brokers but it has become my favorite. I did not like the rates on DAT but im going to look at the Its, mentioned above

 

Dat has every load as internet truck stop, and all convoy loads are there. Only low paying Uber is not on dat except rarely. In the first month I had every load board, now I just run dat.

 

What do you guys think of Trucker Path's loadboards?

 

First and foremost, accept that both DAT and TS are designed to support their money makers, brokers. Any benefit you see is accidental.

I've had both in the past. My experience is not much difference in posted loads. The tendency was that DAT would give me exactly what I wanted for some price, while TS always seemed to offer only a package that was either just not enough or way too much.

TS is also pushy with sales calls and emails, while DAT does zero marketing. Someone mentioned the broker calls, TS does that, DAT doesn't. Some like it some don't. It's kind of ok in a weak market. It was more annoying to me than useful in most cases. Especially now that I get 30 robocalls a day and screen the crap out of anything popping up I don't know. Nobody except old people like me leave voicemail any more.

DAT still has a mostly old school interface, TS has obviously invested heavily in whizbang web dev which in my opinion is fluff that adds nothing to what I use it for.

DAT's rate tools are superior. TS never provided enough detail to make their numbers make a lot of sense to me. Hard to be more specific, and could be I'm just more used to using DAT and just couldn't get to the right view on TS. Last time I checked, to get what I want on TS would have added several hundreds a month to my rate.

DAT prioritizes higher level subscriptions with new posts. Subs with the under $50 rate see the leftovers. Power is in the middle and almost real time, within a minute or two. The only thing better is an integrated solution that only a large carrier or broker would find worth the bucks. If memory serves, TS had similar tiers, but the breaking point money-wise for more real time data was much higher.

Having Coyote and TQL blocked on DAT really cleans up the view. Seems like that wasn't possible on TS, at least a few years ago. Probably due to my very first point above. They're paying enough to force their trash on everyone.

In case you haven't figured it out, I'm a fan and subscriber of DAT. For now.

 

It may not be true in some cases, but most of these 2nd tier load boards are fed by the two leaders. So second hand to even their own second hand priority subscribers. Don't know if Trucker Path is that. Also may not be universal either. Some may have their own native posts then pump up their listings off of DAT or TS feeds.