Flock Freight vs. DAT

Enhance your shipping efficiency while reducing the environmental impact of your freight by adopting shared truckload (STL) services. This transition can boost your on-time delivery rates, drastically lower the chances of damage, and completely negate the carbon emissions associated with your freight transport. Shipments between 8 to 44 linear feet are effectively moved in direct, hubless shared truckloads, making STL the perfect solution for freight that exceeds less-than-truckload (LTL) limits without requiring a full truck. With shipments remaining on the same vehicle from pickup to delivery, STL is astonishingly safer—120 times more so—compared to traditional hub-and-spoke LTL methods. By utilizing shared truckload, you gain the benefits of full truckload (TL) service at a more economical rate, paying only for the space you actually occupy while sharing trailer capacity with other shippers. Accelerate your revenue cycle by sending out freight without delay; STL provides faster transit times than LTL and consolidator networks. Our reliable STL service offers an ideal solution for medium-sized freight, removing arbitrary linear-foot limitations and ensuring that shipments are efficiently routed through an advanced technological framework. By choosing STL, you are not only streamlining your operations but also playing a vital role in fostering a more eco-friendly shipping environment, thereby promoting sustainable practices within the industry. In doing so, you contribute to a collective effort toward reducing the transportation sector's overall environmental footprint.

DAT delivers transformative digital solutions for the freight and logistics landscape, operating platforms such as DAT One—the most expansive truckload freight network in North America—along with DAT iQ, a powerful resource for actionable analytics and freight market intelligence. Their portfolio also features Trucker Tools, which excels in providing shipment tracking and load visibility solutions. A broad spectrum of supply chain stakeholders, from shippers and brokers to carriers, journalists, and industry specialists, count on DAT’s expertise for up-to-the-minute freight trends and market evaluations. With a daily average of close to 700,000 posted loads and a data archive reflecting transactions exceeding $1 trillion, the company supports informed decisions across the industry. Dating back to its inception in 1978 and headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, DAT forms a core business within Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP), an enterprise recognized on the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, and Fortune 1000, continuously raising the bar for digital innovation in transportation and supply chain logistics.