How do I read the load board?

The Load board lists postings that fit your company profile and your personal freight preferences. Each row is one posting.

What the Load board shows

Open Find Freight and choose Load board. The board starts from your preferences, which come from the trailers, service areas and border crossings in your profile. You confirm them on your first visit and can change them with the sliders icon next to the search bar.

When the matching postings run out, the board keeps going with wider sections. Expanded results: widens the match to your company's service areas and profile. All freight: comes last. It stays within the countries you serve but includes any trailer type and any border crossing.

The tabs Everything, Spot Loads and Lanes & Projects narrow the main results by kind of posting, but not the wider sections. To filter by hazmat, trailer, crossing and more, see how to filter the freight you see.

The four posting types

Every row starts with one of four types:

• Load: one shipment, with its own pickup and delivery.
• Lane: a project. You bid on a volume of shipments over a date range, for example 5 to 15 loads a week.
• Potential Load and Potential Lane: the logistics company has not won this business yet. It posts to collect rates and capacity from carriers, then uses them to quote its customer.

Important: A Potential posting is not a guaranteed load. After you bid, the logistics company reviews your rate. If it selects your rate, it uses your bid to negotiate with its customer.

Reading a row

There are no column headers. On a computer, a row reads left to right:

1. Type and company: the posting type, then the logistics company that posted it.
2. Route: origin and destination. On a cross-border posting, the second line names the border crossing. On a domestic posting it is blank.
3. Pickup and delivery, or volume: for a Load, the pickup and delivery appointments, which can be a date and time, a window, or First come, first served. For a Lane, the volume and the date range.
4. Summary: trailer type, distance, live or drop at each end, weight and the product. Partials skip live or drop. Empty-trailer moves skip weight and product.
5. Your activity: your chats and bids.

Notes under the route

• Truck and distance: a small truck with a distance range means the pickup is near one of your posted trucks. Point at it to see which truck: "~10 mi from Laredo". When you search an origin, the main results show a pin with the distance from the place you searched instead.
• Red text: a note such as "2 additional pickups" means the posting has more than one stop. The row also gets a Multistop tag.

Yellow tags

Yellow tags flag special requirements before you open the posting, such as Hazmat, Overweight, Team driver, CTPAT carrier, CDL driver and 24/7 Customer Service.

Your activity on a posting

• Chat with a red number: how many of your chats about that posting have unread messages.
• Bid with your amount in gray: your bid is open and waiting on the logistics company. You also see this after a counteroffer is withdrawn or turned down.
• Counter with an amount in yellow: the logistics company sent a counteroffer, and it is your turn. See how to answer a counteroffer.
• Accepted with the amount in green: your rate was accepted.
• Rejected with the amount in red: your bid was not taken. The X removes it from your active bids.

Click a row to open it. See what a posting tells you before you bid.