DAT Load Board for Truckers Reviews

by TruckingTee

Low rates, DAT board is horrible. How can any driver survive with this crap. Often rates are so low they don’t even post them. DAT is very broker friendly. The broker side of app seems way better. Your putting hard working Americans out of work. Hope you burn in Hell along with these brokers.
Anyone who reads this the only way you’ll earn a living for your family is to deal with the customer direct.
And to respond to your reply. No your a brokerage firm manipulating rates with other brokers. #monopoly. It obvious (with the other complaints and issues in reviews ) who you actually are here for and who you are just using as cheap labor. Brokers often put next to no information next to their loads. i.e delivery times , rates ( which rarely are anywhere near 1.80 even for reefer.)We live in the Information Age so for those of us with some business and computer sense we see exactly what your doing. Unfortunately for you the less informed older drivers are retiring 🤷‍♂️

by Cclmberry

DAT should be ashamed of themselves wanting you to pay for access to this broker board. Comments are consistent in the reviews on making brokers post the information about the load. It should be mandatory for all fields to be filled in ie... THE RATE, the weight, the miles, pickup/drop off times etc.... This is definitely in the control of DAT broker board. We as O/O do not have time to go back and forth with brokers about rates & weights etc... if the information is already there I’m not wasting time which = money. What’s your response to this DAT???????????

by Slehorns

The main purpose is to be able to search and book loads. One search produces 365 loads but out of those 365 loads there might be only 30 different loads. Brokers post the same load 12 times in a row then you will see another load 8 times then back to the original 12 for another 8 postings. I complained on deaf ears DAT representative said it’s the brokers fault and DAT can not control their own app. Well it just cost them $70 a month for terrible service. I have both DAT and Truckstop. Save your money and just go to Truckstop customer service is great. You have a personal representative and the product and service is 10 times better than DAT.

by Ismet-314-

Load board seems to have issues every week. For some reason it’s been happening more frequently. If not every couple days every week. Especially considering the fact that they bumped the membership from $150 to $170 a month for one user. We have two more additional log in and pay close to $400 a month for it to crash every week when I have trucks sitting I can’t find freight for. This is ridiculous, going to look into taking my business else where. Only kept their service cause they were partnered with our factoring company but since they lost their contract no sense in staying with them.

by PJA9691

The new update is not team friendly whatsoever!! My husband and I run our operation together and many times we are both logged in looking for loads. Now we are not able to do this. We pay for this service and it’s very disappointing. I am strongly considering canceling our service. I refuse to pay for another subscription. Instead of hurting the small single truck operation, why not improve your app by making it impossible for brokers to post a load without giving details like pickup/delivery dates, weight, commodity etc? You’re the biggest Loadboard and make the most $! Truckers ( your bread and butter) are being nickeled and dimed to death as it is and you want to now add to the problem. So frustrated.

by Plus Or Minus

In addition Brokers are hiding facts and getting away with selling you one thing and then surprise it’s something else. You don’t find this out tell after you sign their rate con that’s when you get the rest of the information. Second drop, extra heavy load, lumpers required, won’t pay detention till after 4 hours. In any other business this would be illegal bait and switch !
Besides there is no negotiating with brokers these days, they have the upper hand and they know it. Last year was a record breaking year in profits for brokers at the truckers expense it looks like this year is going to be even better. Please help us, keep brokers from omitting details and make negotiations fair !

by Joshua88M

I know DATLoadBoard says its for truckers, but I can’t wrap my head around why it doesn’t have a brokerage side. Seems like it would take them 20 minutes to add brokerage load posting and truck searching functionality. Would be really convenient to post and cover a load from my phone while on the go. On the mobile website you can’t post rates, which I also can’t wrap my mind around...

by A Real Person In 2014

We need to be able arrange, on the mobile version, search by Rate Per Mile, & Length of load (feet of deck space) which is a must for partial loads. Plus all the normal search categories. A load alert system like Landstar has would be great to, (getting emails when loads get posted that meet a strict criteria) . DATLoadBoard is decent, I would use it more if it had these features. DATLoadBoard is to bulky in my opinion and not efficient enough.

by JoshSTS

Mobile layout works well on the go.
Been happy thus far.

Couple issues. Mandatory input of full dimensions and weight would be appreciated. It would save so much phone time.

Also. If load is booked it should be automatically taken down. I sometimes have 4-5 hours waisted on blank calls. If these two issues are fixed you are stellar.

Offer price on everything would help as well. Calling to find out they are paying a dollar or less a mile is ridiculous.

Computer or laptop version is a little busy fot the eye in my opinion.

by DWashington1

Please make it mandatory brokers post rates, details, drop off dates and times. I’m Beginning to spend hours on the phone with brokers who already know the rates there paying aren’t going to get covered. If carriers knew the drop off dates for your loads these wasted calls could be avoided. I’m not sure why this isn’t mandatory, this is a scheduling app. Details are really important in this business please help your carriers out we also pay the monthly premium. Please it’s your app and your #1. I don’t want to hear brokers have there discretion. 7/10 reviews have asked for this change. Besides this DATLoadBoard is great!!! My reason for 4 stars it pays for itself x10.

by 111112-1112211

Broker rating system by drivers, there are many crooked shifty brokers that will screw over anyone they can with no recourse... stop multiple postings of the same load by using the surrounding towns it just wastes time by calling on the same load several times, need prompt removal of accepted loads by lazy brokers. The rate of freight needs posting. If your gonna be the best get rid of the trash

by Jmp Carrier

Please make brokers post pay. No sense in having to waste time talking to them if they have crappy pay. Carrier satisfaction should be your number one priority since we pay the monthly premium. This will also help weed out all the crooked brokers that overpost loads that don’t exist.

by Wulf 101

Other than that . It’s a good app . Just needs some improvement on the information on loads . This is a scheduling app please have the brokers post drop off dates, temperatures. We’re wasting so much time just trying to find the right load instead of calling right away on one that fits us.

by Ivan, Portland OR

DAT is a great load board. They built DATLoadBoard very well. There are a few minor things they may improve on in the future like giving you the option to not have to choose if you booked a load or not after your phone call. DATLoadBoard is simple but nice. If you complain about low rates, it has nothing to do with DAT, they are just the messenger, providing you with all the load options, so convenient.

by Cyletj

You banned nan brokers that under pay the load; the post an offer when you call they want to bring the price lower. If post a price we should negotiate according to that price. Beside the fifteen day run don’t mean nothing to them.
You have a spot to rate these brokers and much bad reviews should remove them. The business is hard for everyone as everyone has pay fees and bills; fairness will keep everyone happy and running. Good apps make these improvements then you have a 4 1/2 from me.

by Smindians

Could not agree more or said it better than the previous reviewer. It’s absurd not to post rates, brokers know what they want to move it.... POST IT and stop with the call games.

It just wastes every ones time.

I too love DATLoadBoard so just make it mandatory and it will be even better - for everyone.

by Beartow01

Makes searching for loads a breeze . Only thing I could add as of this moment is the feature to remove a post from visibility . If a load is old/cheap or if I called on it already a simple swipe right just like the add to work list but the opposite would be great . And bring it back up if they change something on the posting like raising the rate for example . This was possible on the old DAT program before it went to web based . Great app overall though thank you .

by Country- Hobo

I have to agree with the rate posting !!
Most of these brokers are crooked, without a
Doubt. They are more concerned about another broker taking there freight. Giving you false pick up places, so there fellow flock of thieves, that
They are throwing them off the trail, and taking
Up a truckers time as well. Shame on them !!!
They should be put in there place. I totally agree
With the rate posting. Keep those thieves honest
If they don’t post a rate I skip over them like the
Plague, that they possess. So fellow truckers
Don’t take there BS, No rate post, No phone call
Very simple mathematical equation !!!!

by Milliondollarlife1974

Why do we do this? It’s about the money. It’s always about the money. It saves everyone time, list the price and accurate locations for pickup and delivery. DAT needs a feature to help describe and maybe layout multiple stop loads so we can all figure quickly if loads make sense for our drivers our not. We also need an additional filter on top of what you currently offer. Thanks! Diversified Trucking, LLC

by BoJohn219

DATLoadBoard would be perfect if it had alarms. For example if I have one truck in a slow area I don’t want to keep refreshing non stop. A notification when a load posts would be great. I know many many people who agree. Make it happen.

by Froot245

What do you do if you don’t remember your sign in information or email? Hey I gotta idea how bout let people sign up differently since this is another app not those other ones. But I’m definitely gonna delete this one tomorrow if I gotta use old information from something from my past. Thanks but jus lost interest that quick

by Tibortini

There is always some issue, at least once every week this board doesn’t work for several hours. I’ve lost so many loads because of it, it makes me crazy. Today it stopped working at 10 am, can’t even log in. Now it’s 2,20 pm and still doesn’t work. Not good for business

by Tgiersch

It’s past time for you guys to give us the ability to block brokers on DATLoadBoard . I have way too many we won’t work with and makes finding loads very difficult. We are a power user with 18 accounts. It’s available on the webpage so let’s get it started.

by Kingmacho32

The only thing missing is a rate check for lanes and a auto refresh to show loads in real-time as they are added and deleted.

by Mr. Been

Great app. Would be nice if by taping on total trip miles number, google map would show origin and destination trip, just like on website. Thank you.

by Gabey14

Been having some issues with it saying error and i have to close DATLoadBoard and reopen it. Other then that I’d like to see a version for the iPads. Right now it’s really small and an iPad version would help a lot.