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How to Use a Load Board Free Posting Trucks and Loads

A truck load board (free posting, trucks and loads) is a quick, inexpensive way to find loads for your trailer when you don’t want to deadhead, or if you need to pick up some extra cash. Understanding how to use a load board w/ free posting trucks and loads can help you supplement your normal employment or keep your truck full as an OO. Here’s how to get started using a free posting load board.

Find the Right Online Free Posting Load Board

There are lots of load boards on the Internet, so it may take some research to find the ones that work best for you. The completely free load boards won’t cost you anything, but they don’t offer a great selection of trucking jobs. There are many load boards that charge a monthly membership fee, often less than $20 a month, and let you post trucks free and post loads free, with no limit. On other load boards, you can post trucks free and post loads free, and pay a small fee to the load board when you book a load. Many of these paid load boards only charge the shipper when a job is booked, so they operate like a free load board free posting trucks and loads for truckers.

Research the Free Posting Load Board

In most cases, it’s worth it to sign up with several load boards, but don’t do it randomly. Check out the reputation and types of loads available on a trucker forum. There are lots of experienced guys out there who’ll fill you in on which load boards are worth signing up with and which to avoid. You’ll find that some of the boards allow brokers to post loads and trucking companies to post trucks, while others are strictly for shippers and truckers with no brokers involved. Learn as much as you can before you sign up with a free posting load board.

Sign Up

Signing up with a free posting load board is easy. Usually, all you need is your name, truck information, address, email address, telephone number and truck information. If you’re signing up with a paid load board, you’ll also need to provide credit card information for billing.

Post Trucks Free

Post your truck on the board. When you post your truck and availability, shippers and trucking companies that need extra capacity can find you. Most of the load boards use similar software, so once you understand how to set up on one, you’ll have no trouble with the others. Post the type of truck and equipment you have, where you are, how far you’ll drive and how much space you have. Keep your truck updated so people can search for you by name, load type, location and equipment.

Search for Loads

Just like you can post trucks free, shippers can post loads that you can search by the same criteria. Search for loads by location, distance and size, or, if you want, by shipper or trucking companies.

Once you get used to using a load board free posting trucks and loads, you’ll never have to deadhead again unless you want to.

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