Hi. Can anyone tell me if I have to have a DOT number to get into the DAT loadboard? I would like to start practicing on DAT, but am not able to do that without the DOT.

Hello, colleagues! How are you all doing? Last Friday i got a Load TX to FL, berries, well paid, good PU and delivery times. My driver arrives on time at the shipper, it was 1pm, and they told him the load was not ready yet, they were still waiting for some of the products that they didn’t have at that moment. Two hours later, he dos back to the office, only to confirm that the product hadn’t been received yet by the shipper and also, to learn that he needed an appointment because that facility was not FCFS as we were told by the broker. Obviusly he didn’t have any, so they told him he had to wait until 10 pm, it was the closest time they had available for them to load the trailer. 10pm. The load want ready yet and te hay had no clue about when it was going to be ready to go. Long story short, he was loaded today, one hour ago😩 it was the weekend, the driver wanted to be in Florida with his family, but no. He had to wait from Friday to Monday to get his trailer loaded, This i s the kind of situation that, even when it doesn’t happen often (in my experience), ir may happen from time to time. You need to be mentally prepared to face it sincero is extremely frustrating, you gve hunde esa of calls and send thousand of emails to the broker for them to contacto the shipper, but it is completed worthless since it was a weekend and they really don’t have the power to sobe this kind of situations, not even the shipper, since they hadnt received the berries yet. We didn’t cancel it since it was Friday afternoon and get a new load at that time was going to be impossible, and he was going to be there waiting the while weekend anyways ( for no money) Today, we were going to ask the broker to remove us from the load, but happily, they received the missing products and loaded the trailer. My driver is now on his way to Florida.

I got my first carrier! He found me on Instagram and we had the sales call today, he signed the contract and sent it back after the call. Our onboarding call is Wednesday and he has a 40ft Hotshot. I'm super excited that this is all coming together. Now I don't feel like I'm 'starting a business' like the business is up and running really quick and im just here for the ride lol. I've only been in the paid course for a month so I know I have a lot to learn. If anyone has any experience with Hotshots, or hotshots in the Texas area, I'd love to pick your brain :)

My name is Carol and I'm from Wisconsin. My husband and I own a small factoring company which we started in 2018. Over the course of the years, we've had drivers come and go. Since COVID, we've lost a few drivers and then within the last year we've lost a couple more. The drivers that we've had have become like family to me. I got to know all of them really well. I still keep in touch with some of them. Just recently, I have decided I want to expand my knowledge more of the industry and get into dispatching. I figure I already know about the industry so what better way to grow than to dispatch while still keeping up in our factoring company. I have a friend from India who will be working with me in this endeavor. I am excited and eager to start.