Overview
DAT connects freight brokers, shippers and carriers through its load board and publishes widely used truckload rate benchmarks.
Brokers post loads, carriers search for freight, and both sides use DAT rate data to price lanes.
Best for
- Brokers covering truckload freight
- Carriers finding loads
- Rate benchmarking
Strengths
- Huge marketplace of brokers and carriers
- Trusted rate benchmarks
- Carrier directory and credit data
Limitations
- Built for moving freight, not for prospecting decision makers
- Contact details are operational, not leadership
- No matching to your ideal customer
Pricing
Monthly subscriptions by product tier.
For selling to logistics companies
DAT tells you who is active in the market, but you still have to find the owner or operations leader who buys your product.
Verdict
Essential for freight operations. Not a sales prospecting tool. SimilarContact's Logistics product starts from a logistics company you already want and returns verified decision makers at brokerages, NVOCCs and carriers built the same way. High quality contacts, not volume.
Where SimilarContact is different
Quality, not volume
You get one to three verified contacts per lookup, not a list of thousands to clean up.
Similar to what you want
Matches are picked by industry, company size and location against the prospect you already like.
Built for engagement and intent
Contacts come from companies with real international freight, or from logistics companies that buy what you sell, so the odds of a reply are much higher.