SmartHop Clients Improve Earnings and Lower Time-Spent Utilizing DAT Integration
SmartHop, a sophisticated freight reserving and fleet administration platform, pronounces at present that trucking fleets utilizing SmartHop’s self-service platform with DAT Freight & Analytics’ built-in load board are optimizing their time and efficiency by means of elevated income and common price per mile.
After a nine-month research, 24 SmartHop clients reported a 60% improve of spot market income and a 5-15% improve in common price per mile amongst their fleets.
“As a substitute of the three to eight hours it used to take me to cowl one truck, it’s now performed in lower than half-hour,” stated Jessica Zapata, proprietor of J&M Dispatching.
SmartHop empowers small fleets to function extra profitably by lowering empty miles and making extra knowledgeable decision-making in much less time primarily based on in-platform insights, together with market traits and customized monetary knowledge.
“Reserving the mistaken masses can add up over time, costing fleets income and considerably hurting their enterprise,” stated Guillermo Garcia, CEO and co-founder of SmartHop. “Our expertise faucets into DAT’s market, curating one of the best load methods for a fleet, so dispatchers make quicker strategic choices and get it proper extra usually. DAT is a vital accomplice on this course of. Not solely does it have an unlimited stock of premium masses, it has layered in info on profitability, load particulars, and even dealer credit score scores—all knowledge factors that our clients must determine what’s proper for them.”
In July 2021, DAT built-in its API and knowledge into SmartHop’s platform, permitting its clients to streamline the load-matching course of utilizing superior filtering for load sort, profitability, regional preferences, hours of service limitations, and different parameters. With greater than 357,000 masses posted to the DAT community every enterprise day, the partnership opened up entry to extra masses and lanes for SmartHop customers, serving to them compete with bigger carriers for spot truckload freight.
“Small fleets that use the spot market to search out their subsequent load have been uncovered to large volatility lately, however we’ve seen how a lot our options might help them,” stated Garcia. “To assist as many fleets as doable, we’ve made it our objective that each SmartHop buyer may have DAT embedded of their expertise and each DAT buyer will transact by way of SmartHop’s self-service platform to totally optimize their trucking enterprise.”
SmartHop chosen DAT as its integration accomplice primarily based on its standing because the trade’s largest load board and most correct truckload pricing knowledge service. Utilizing this knowledge, SmartHop conducts automated searches within the background and notifies carriers of customized load suggestions, which saves clients a big period of time.
“Our one-stop-platform made it simple for the fleets to entry DAT’s high-paying masses, and choose from a number of choices alongside present routes,” stated Garcia. “Even on quick discover it was simple for them to search out masses due to our exact filtering capabilities.”
