How does CarrierLists compare to load boards?

Load boards are a must-have for every broker.  I couldn’t imagine moving loads without one .  Only 20% of carriers use load boards though.  CarrierLists has conducted extensive survey research with FreightWaves on how carriers source their loads. Our research shows 63% of carriers source loads directly from shippers, 24% directly from brokers, but only 14% from load boards.  So, how can you reach the other 80% of for-hire carriers when you’re striking out with post and cover, and coming up empty with your internal carrier network? Using CarrierLists your brokers can now use this hidden capacity turn around bids, quotes, and loads in a fraction of the time it takes now fumbling around searching for carriers.

How is CarrierLists different than using our carrier set-up packets to source trucks?

If carrier packets were highly accurate and easily searchable, then nearly every brokerage would have built their own searchable database long, long ago.  Unfortunately, the self-reported profiles in carrier packets are mostly inaccurate and incomplete.  Carrier profiles are the last item carriers or brokers want to deal with when a load is on the line.  You’ve been on the phone all morning trying to cover the load, you’ve negotiated pricing, you’ve looked up safety info…the last thing on your mind is the information in the packet.  So, it doesn’t matter to anyone how carriers fill out the form, just so long as it gets returned ASAP, so you can get it through compliance and the driver dispatch.  None of the 25,000 carrier profiles in CarrierLists include self-reported data from carriers.  Our research staff calls and interviews every carrier in our database at least once per year.  This allows us to control the quality of information that is available to help you source the carriers you need based on trailers, preferred lanes, and specializations.

How does CarrierLists keep its carrier information up to date?

We use two methods to keep our carrier info as current as possible: We call each carrier in our database at least once a year to confirm all operational and contact information is current.CarrierLists OnLine users can flag any carrier whose information is incorrect.  We receive a report every morning of all flagged carriers.  This list is uploaded in our daily research list where each is called to update their profile.  To learn more on how any of our thousands of users can flag carriers check out our 90-second tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZlrIeHi6Qo.  

How can 25,000 carriers give your team access to 50% of all for-hire trucks on the road?

There are roughly 250k interstate carriers with 1.7m registered semi-trucks on the road today.  Of these 250k interstate carriers only 45k operate five or more trucks.  CarrierLists has called and interviewed 35k carriers with fleets from 5 to 500 trucks.  Only 60% of these carriers have made our list.  The other 40% have outdated contact info, have never answered the phone, are private fleets with for-hire authority, or are garbage haulers, environmental waste companies, tow trucks, etc.    If you then subtract out the semi-trucks operated by the mega fleets, you're left with a count of for-hire trucks of 1m to 1.2m for-hire trucks. CarrierLists database currently has 25,000 carriers operating 600,000 trucks.  This includes 10,000 dry van carriers, 7,000 reefer carriers, and 5,500 flatbed carriers.

We’ve been in business for years and have thousands of carriers in our system.  What if we have most of the carriers in CarrierLists already?

Please email us at research@carrierlists.com if you’d like an Excel file with the USDOT numbers of all 25,000 carriers in our database.  A simple match formula will give you an answer on the overlap in less than 5 minutes.

We’ve bought lists in the past, and they’ve been total garbage.  How is CarrierLists any different?

This was our experience with buying lists as well.  We couldn’t find a list we could pick up and use to cut down the number of phone calls it took to cover a load.  So, we decided to build what we needed ourselves.  This included calling and interviewing all 25,000 carriers in our database.  Removing the disconnected numbers, ghost MCs, private fleets, tow trucks, garbage haulers etc.  During our calls, we’ve collected the info you can’t find on any other lists.  This includes trailer types, preferred lanes, specializations, and updated contact info for dispatch and sales.  It’s the information we know you need because as former brokers it was the information we needed to find trucks for our loads fast.