DAT Load Boards and Getloaded Combine Back Offices

In a sign of the times, in particular the sharing economy, DAT Solutions, whose network of loadboards provides truck capacity for brokers and 3PLs, announced that it is combining customer support and billing departments with Getloaded, a source of specialty and flatbed loads and trucks.

The combined operations will move to a larger facility in Portland.

“DAT and Getloaded will continue to run with separate databases of truck loads provided by 3rd parties and shippers, and truck postings from carriers,” said Don Thornton, Senior Vice President at DAT Solutions.

DAT was established in 1978 as the industry’s original load board at a truck stop on I-5 just north of Portland. For the next 30 years, DAT grew to become the industry’s largest loadboard, serving brokers, carriers, and shippers. Getloaded opened its doors in 1999 in Richmond, Virginia and has subsequently grown to be a major load board, increasingly focused on specialized, flatbed, and hotshot loads.

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