Carrier TMS that integrate with DAT

About DAT

DAT is the largest freight load board in North America, with DAT One and DAT Power as its core carrier-facing products plus RateView for benchmark spot rates. DAT serves brokers (posting loads), carriers (searching and booking loads), and increasingly the data layer behind freight tech (rate APIs, MCI data, etc.). For carrier TMS buyers, DAT integration usually means one of three things: (1) post available trucks from the TMS to DAT, (2) pull and book loads from DAT into the TMS without re-keying, or (3) call DAT RateView from the TMS to surface benchmark rates during quoting. DAT exposes APIs for partners but gates access through partnership agreements.

Why this integration matters for carriers

For asset-based carriers running spot freight or a mix of contract + spot, DAT integration removes one of the most painful daily double-entries: a dispatcher who finds a load in DAT One has to manually create the load in the TMS — origin, destination, rate, broker, MC, commodity, equipment — every single time. A real DAT integration imports the load with one click, with the broker's MC pre-validated. On the truck-posting side, integration pushes empty trucks from the TMS to DAT automatically as drivers complete loads, instead of requiring a dispatcher to maintain a second posting screen. RateView integration helps quoting accuracy. The combined time savings for a 20-truck spot-heavy fleet is meaningful — often a half-FTE.

The integration matrix

Two explicit "no" cells: ITS Dispatch (owned by Truckstop, DAT's direct competitor) and Axon (deliberate design choice — no native loadboard integration). Two of the three "Native" wins (AscendTMS via DAT Convoy, Alvys, McLeod, Trimble, PCS) bring real depth.

TMS	Score	DAT integration	Source / note
Truckbase	96/100	Listed	Truckbase mentions DAT among load-board partners; depth (truck posting vs load import vs RateView) varies
AscendTMS	92/100	Native	DAT · Convoy Platform fully integrated with AscendTMS — Convoy Platform fully integrated Jan 2026 — deepest DAT integration in the catalog
Rose Rocket	91/100	Unverified	Rose Rocket has supported DAT via Marketplace; depth unconfirmed
Alvys	90/100	Native	Alvys integrations — DAT is a named integration partner; load search and truck posting
McLeod LoadMaster	88/100	Native	McLeod · LoadMaster integrations — DAT Connexion (load search + tractor posting) and DAT RateView (market rate export + rate index) all listed
Trimble TMW.Suite	87/100	Native	Trimble suite catalog · Brokerage/Dispatch — DAT 360 freight matching supported via TMW broker module
Tailwind TMS	85/100	Unverified	Tailwind doesn't explicitly mention DAT; Truckstop is the named loadboard
Axon Software	84/100	Not supported	Axon explicitly does not ship native DAT/Truckstop loadboard integration per maxtruckers analysis
PCS TMS	82/100	Native	PCS integration partners — DAT listed as a primary loadboard partner
ITS Dispatch	78/100	Not supported	ITS is owned by Truckstop (DAT's direct competitor) — Truckstop is the native loadboard, DAT support shallow at best

What to pressure-test in a demo

• Which DAT product do you have? DAT One vs DAT Power vs RateView each gate different APIs. Some TMS integrations require DAT Power or higher.
• Truck posting vs load search. These are separate features. Ask to see both flows.
• MC verification. Real DAT integrations validate broker MC# and surface credit days/score. Shallow integrations only paste over the load.
• Load import field mapping. Does the imported load come in fully structured (origin, dest, rate, equipment, broker, refs) or as text in a notes field?
• Rate API vs screen-scrape. Some "integrations" are unsupported scrape jobs that break when DAT ships a UI change. Confirm it's an API integration.
• Convoy Platform support (post-Convoy-shutdown). DAT acquired Convoy's tech; AscendTMS has the deepest Convoy Platform tie. Ask about Convoy integration if it matters to your loadboard usage.

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